Hi everyone,
We pushed out a fix for this issue in today's Mandalorian update. Some of you mentioned it's now working for you - glad to hear that! And thanks for sticking with us. If you notice any new or remaining issues related to this, please leave a comment.
I've had fun the few hours I've played it so far.
But as soon as I jumped into the tie fighter in the prologue and looked around, I was instantly disappointed.
First I thought it was just unoptimized, verified I am getting ~150+fps. Made sure my monitor wasn't * up, etc.
Absolute bummer. Really hoping this is fixed soon so I can play the game properly on a higher refresh rate.
I reckon EA are relying on the stupidity of their loyal fans who cant see or admit the problem. You know the types, the ones who say there is no difference between 30fps and 60fps.
My mate just started banging on about how amazing it was in VR and buttery smooth...
So I asked him if it ran alright...yeah amazing he said smooth as anything...
Asked him to go the hanger and rotate the character...does it ghost?
Oh yeah thats horrible...
So it doesnt run buttery smooth then......
At least I've ruined it for him now aswell 😉
This is a bad bug. Going to wait till it's fixed, hopefully soon.
Couple of things I've noticed that might help others
- In VR the frame rate is locked to the refresh rate of the desktop monitor. If you ALT-TAB in the desktop once in the VR view in the headset then you'll see better frames. I have a 4K 60Hz limited monitor on my desktop, and the WMR HP Reverb I use is then locked in-game to 60 fps in VR. But if I minimize the game desktop window out of focus then it jumps up to around 80 fps (i9/2080, was hoping for a solid 90 fps even on low ☹️). There is no sound when out of focus (there is a setting for that in Settings/Audio in-game) but it also causes some other issues, like the throttle indicator value in-cockpit doesn't update to reflect throttle position etc., so basically you'll trading off other display bugs for this.
- In SteamVR, at least for Windows Steam VR, you have to set the Motion Smoothing to 'Forced Always' to kick in the equivalent of ASW. Auto or On doesn't work. The latest beta of WMR for SteamVR lets the SteamVR settings be used as the underlying settings UI (rather than the default.vrsettings file), so you can at least do it 'per app' on that side. That will lock it to a solid 45 fps and reproject as 90 in headset. I guess that's the best workaround for now.
This is the most upvoted bug here, and yet hasn't even been reported correctly on the summary technical issues post yet.
It's only described as "choppy" gameplay on high refresh displays, which greatly underplays the fact that VR is basically unplayable with this bug.
In fact its not even listed in the VR bugs list, even though it is by far the most important VR bug to fix.
It doesn't fill me with much hope that they are on it if they haven't even described the issue correctly yet...
