My not so great experience with VR so far
Specs first.....
Valve Index
5800X3D
6800XT
32gb DDR4 3600mhz
SteamVR settings normaly set to
Render per eye = Auto or 100%
80hz refresh (to give the best chance of stable frame rates)
So firstly the good, the driving experience in VR is great imo.
The bad....
So I've had several AMD Gpu driver crashes & after a gpu driver crash, although I'm back on the desktop I tend to have to restart or the game wont start in VR.
Most common issue for me is after selecting Enable VR, the game does nothing, doesn't go to the Warning screen it just sits there doing nothing. SteamVR starts and in the headset it says "waiting". The only way out is to shut down steamVR which closes the game, even task manager in windows won't open.
If 3D render stage preview is on, you ocasionally loose your ability to make any inputs & the display can be black until you either move a meter to the left or right. Disabling this seems to get rid of this problem.
Performance.....
If upscaling is set to on, the game looks incredibly blurry, changing the option can crash the game.
Anything over medium setting for Anti Aliasing makes the game look blurry. Under medium the game just starts to look bad.
Setting the game to ultra low gets consistent frame rates but the game looks quite bad.
Setting the game to low can give passible frame rates but only just.
If motion smoothing is turned on in steamVR I can have some settings on medium in some locations but it isn't consistent.
Setting the render per eye over 150% makes the game unable to start VR. Not that I would expect to run the game like this, I was just experimenting.
So again, when I've manage to get the game to load and drive, the VR Driving experience is great.
Performance I would hope could be fixed to some degree. Some people using Oculus devices and Nvidia Gpu's seem to be doing better when it comes to visual fidelity.
But the big issue is the crashing, hanging & general inconsistent nature of getting the game to actually run in VR. Playing the game on monitor, I've had no performance issues or crashing but VR, it's probably 50-50 whether the game will actually start at all at the moment.
Anyways, hope the input helps.
