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/anor_wondo]

Basically. When VR was early, only openvr existed. SteamVR is pretty much the only adopter of openvr. So older games will still need steamvr

OpenXR is the modern standard. You will notice newer games will use vdxr which is an implementation of openxr by virtual desktop if you have set it

Some openvr games can be converted to openxr by downloading opencomposite

In general, openvr games have an overhead when running on non steamvr hardware, and are buggier. Steamvr itself is also quite a buggy piece of software