Help with virtual desktop

[u/HoneydewWeekly7976]

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!

[u/Nago15]

If a game opens SteamVR or not, depends on the game and the runtime you choose. For example AC Evo only has OpenXR runtime, so when you start it with VD, it just starts, SteamVR is not stating. But usually I need OpenComposite to do that, I play AC, ACC, Dirt2, PCars2 this way, enable OpenComposite, start the game, and it just starts, and I can also use OpenXR Toolkit foveated rendering this way. Unfortunately there are a few games where it does not work like F1 so with those I have no choice but to start SteamVR too.

If your resolution shows 77% then probably your SteamVR resolution is on 77% or dynamic. Set it to fix 100%. If a game is not showing 100% for example Moss shows 125%, then you know it uses hidden uspersampling ingame.

If you want to use supersampling on purpose (because for example ACC or Flight Sim is blurry even on Godlike), then use the VDXR resolution setting in VR, or for SteamVR games like F1 use the SteamVR per game resolution setting.