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J0bbee
2 years ago

Native HMD OpenXR

For owners of headsets from Varjo, Pimax, HP and possibly others too their native OpenXR runtimes are not working correctly.

Currently the only way for us to get the game running is by switching runtimes and this is sub-optimal for performance. For me using a Pimax Crystal this can result in up to a 20% loss in performance. This also requires a dance of option changes between the different apps I run just to get WRC working and to get everything reset after use.

What I would hope is for OpenXR to not be specific to just Steam and Meta. Everything else I run that is OpenXR based works as expected with all OXR runtimes and layers.

For what it's worth here are my findings trying to use the native runtime for the Pimax Crystal: The game will start and menus etc in the floating theater show correctly, this actually runs 90fps compared to Steams XR which can be around 70fps and stuttery in this mode, native is far better for these theater modes. When a stage is started the hmd will switch into stereo 3D BUT will flicker between eyes and not react to head position movement with what looks like a window within a window.

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  • Sokittoya76A's avatar
    Sokittoya76A
    Rising Adventurer
    9 months ago

    C'mon EA where is the answer to my question? It would literally take you less than 30 seconds to reply. Shame on you for your lack of client service.

  • jazzbutter's avatar
    jazzbutter
    New Adventurer
    7 months ago

    Will we see any VR fixes in these new paid expansions?

    I'd like to hope so. I'm holding off on buying until I see some movement on the VR (beta) front.

    Its just very unenjoyable when you have to render at 50% resolution with a very small FOV, and DLSS - just to have tolerable fps.

    This is the only VR game I have to do this with.

    Communication would be nice as a minimum

  • moogleslam's avatar
    moogleslam
    New Scout
    5 months ago

    Another bump. This will give so many users a HUGE performance boost if you could please give native openXR support to all headsets! ❤️

  • jazzbutter's avatar
    jazzbutter
    New Adventurer
    5 months ago

    EA_Barry Almost a year since the original post

    Can we get native OpenXR working, like every other sim title by now please? 

    Huge fan of DR2 VR. I want to love this game, but the performance just makes for a bad experience.

    I can't in good conscience buy any expansion until I see some movement or communication at the least

  • Falconitage's avatar
    Falconitage
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 months ago

    ea wrc is not fun in vr, that's why I am not playing that game anymore !
    if only native openxr could be used it will allow best performance.

  • staffeyx's avatar
    staffeyx
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 months ago

    I did not purchase the game yet, since it does not support my headset's native OpenXR runtime. 

    Playing with a HP Reverb G2 and will continue doing so for years to come (in Windows 10).

    Would appreciate if native OpenXR gets supported, along with better VR performance in general.

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