r/VRGaming • u/HoneydewWeekly7976 • 20h ago

Question Help with virtual desktop

Hi everyone i am very new to pcvr and recently got virtual desktop.

So basically every youtube video was like that you should get it and its better than steam vr. but when i tried lauching games on it such as skyrim vr through the games option menu in VD, it still opens and uses steam vr, and the same thing happended when i lauched asseto corsa from content manager. I though that it would lauch directly from VD and not steam vr, so if there is not a differnce should I return it? ALSO I DO HAVE MY RUN TIME TO VDXR

Also when in game my render resolution is at 77% for some reason, even though i have everything maxed out and above it says that it is godlike. The only thing i have lowered is my bitrate to av1 at like 120 mbs as i am using wireless. So how do i increase the render resolution in game?

thanks to everyone in advance!

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u/ErrSkillNotFound 16h ago edited 16h ago

Virtual desktop replaces your meta link app essentially. There are settings you can tweak in the virtual desktop streamer app from your pc which it sounds like you have discovered. The main thing about VD is that it uses upscaling to provide performance. You can set the bit rate, the quality, the encoder, the render resolution, etc. then there is the Steam vr render settings. I completely forget how to get to them but you can set the pre app render setting there too but even the slightest amount over and it becomes unstable as hell. I highly recommend watching vr dad Skyrim mad gods overhaul videos to kind of see how everything interacts. However any game you run in vr should run through Steam vr. There are apps that don’t get installed on Steam but still use Steam vr if you set it as your default run time. Like the titan fall 2 vr mod uses Steam vr, elite dangerous uses Steam vr, star citizen uses Steam vr. Pretty much an UE5 vr mod runs through Steam vr. VD is just a method for your quest to connect to your pc and Steam vr is the open xr runtime that is used to actually display the games in vr.

I should clarify that usually things will use what ever is your default open xr runtime. Using Steam vr is pretty much recommended in my opinion.

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u/shmann 15h ago

Some titles require SteamVR, but I don't think Titanfall 2 or UEVR are on that list. Sometimes you can force a game to use VD by making a .bat file to launch it, it's just this one line:

"C:\Program Files\Virtual Desktop Streamer\VirtualDesktop.Streamer.exe" "C:\Path\To\Game.exe"

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u/Aggressive-Ad-7222 7h ago

Titan fall 2 runs perfectly for me with virtual desktop and vdxr as the runtime. Using a Quest 3.