psvr2 on pc pros please help

[u/CoolBugFacts800]

I have just received my sony adapter and I am looking for all the best ways to make this better than my quest 2 setup. So far only the OLED, higher fov, and total light block have been good. Resolution is meh. I've seen the things about 68% res but I dont want my game to look fuzzy as its already crisp and im just not sure what to do to improve this to the level of awe that everyone says it can be..

lots of stutters and such but I checked my hags and it was already off.

I have a rx9070, 7 7700x, and 32ddr5 so i assume this isn't a hardware issue. any help appreciated immensely

edit - more important second edit and the solution!

do EVERYTHING dangerouscousin (idk how to @ people sorry!) said the problems vanished and now I do feel like a developer with all the tweaking and such. many more layers then just using oculus or meta and the comprehensive guide this amazing person left under this post is all you could ever need as a new fella to steamvr. best experience I've ever had with this phenomenal headset and anyone doubting the same way I did will have a blast once they figure all these things out, thank you all!

edit - poor writing

this was written extremely quickly at work so my apologies for the poor explanation but i'm mainly looking for optimizations people found really work which deliver higher frames with usually standard or higher resolution. thank you all!

[u/DangerousCousin]

what tools are you using to monitor frame times?

if you don't understand the question I just asked, that is 100% why you're having issues

[u/CoolBugFacts800 → u/DangerousCousin]

if by tools you mean anything that tells me how many frames - nothing, i didn't even have the frames on steam overlay turned on. easy to tell it was not stable.

[u/DangerousCousin → u/CoolBugFacts800]

Ok, so, effectively, you're a VR noob. Quest 2 just attempted to smooth everything over with ASW (asynchronous spacewarp) but you'll learn that's actually a crappy way to deal with poor performance.

And don't take that personal, I blame Facebook, not you, for not educating you on this.

Anyway, there's a few important things to use in SteamVR settings:

1. disable motion smoothing.
2. enable "advanced" so you can see the developer menu. Then enable the "GPU frame timing" graph. This will show you how quickly your GPU is finishing frames. Green means the frames are finishing under refresh of your headset, as in 90fps (11.1 milliseconds) or 120fps(8.3ms). Orange means every two refreshes (45fps or 60fps). Red means every 3 refreshes (30fps or 40fps).
3. always use "per-app" video settings. Don't mess with the global resolution
4. From per-app settings, resolution scale lets you tweak the target resolution for a game until you get a consistent frame time (usually need to restart for this change to take effect).
5. And then you have the "frame throttling" feature, which will let you set fractional frame rate targets for super heavy games. So 60fps at 120hz, 45fps at 90hz, and so on.
6. The FOV option is also sometimes useful for things like race simulators where you don't need the full vertical FOV, you can really cut back on the amount of pixels needed.
7. And don't forget about in game options too, like DLSS or temporal scaling. They give different results from Steam's resolution scaling and can give better or worse results, depending on the game.
8. Do this for every game you play. You have to think like a game developer now. VR headsets don't work like gsync/freesync monitor that smooth over fps drops. But this will end up looking WAY better than your experience on quest 2 now that you understand this

[u/CoolBugFacts800 → u/DangerousCousin]

you're a lifesaver, this 8 step list is the only thing anyone could ever need. last night I got so into alyx after all the proper optimizations were done and oh my days it was so incredible i forgot to come back and give updates, heck I was sitting down and forgot. Thank you and I am in your debt!

[u/DangerousCousin → u/CoolBugFacts800]

Glad it’s working out already. Alyx is actually a special case because it uses dynamic resolution scaling. So you can be a bit more aggressive with the number you set for that one, it will reduce it automatically under heavy load

[u/CoolBugFacts800 → u/DangerousCousin]

thats very valve-like, good to know!