Newest patch completely broke VR (not exaggeratin, it's now actually unplayable)

This newest update completely broke VR. It wasn't great before, but it was at least playable prior to the update, but now everything is completely misaligned and weirdly warped on my right eye. The left still works as it should. WTF man? Did no one playtest this update? VR is now quite litterally unplayable... This needs an immediate fix.

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I use the original HTC Vive

Sp0uny
6 months ago
Hi,
Right eye bug SOLVED !
Today, I tried to make this game working with the Pimax Crystal Light.
There is nothing to do, whether in SteamVR or Open XR mode, you have to put almost all the settings on low or ultra low in order to have an acceptable fluidity, but with these settings the game looks like a Playstation 2 game, with huge clipping, the track flashes, in short it is horrible and unplayable.

So I restarted the game with the Quest 3 in Oculus mode, it is incredibly better, the game is fluid with all the settings in ultra, no clipping, in short a completely different experience.
I've only tried 2 VR headsets with this game, but from what I've seen it's only playable with the Q3.

About the right eye bug, I solved this problem on my PC by changing a single setting in the game: In the Advanced Graphic Settings menu, I reduced the Post Processing Quality setting from Ultra to High. If a driving session is started when you change this setting, it may be necessary to restart the race for the right eye bug to disappear.

So this problem is solved in my case, I find it sad that no one at EA noticed that this problem was related to this setting, and did not inform the affected players by an official communication...

46 Replies

elmaui
3 months ago
Me too! Have you solved?
bombradnc
4 months ago
Same here
jazzbutter
4 months ago
When will the VR issue of having to fallback on SteamVR be fixed?
I'd like to be able to run in native OpenXR
Sp0uny
5 months ago
Hi,
I think this problem remains if the settings are too demanding with the hardware.
Only one setting to decrease with my config, which is the most powerful at the moment, it is probably necessary to make other concessions on other settings for less powerful hardware configurations.
And what is strange and which does not naturally direct players towards the solution, is that in my case, the game is perfectly fluid and playable with all the settings set to the maximum.
What allowed me to find the solution is that I had to reduce the graphics settings with the Crystal Light, and which allowed me to eliminate this problem.
Then I simply tried setting by setting, and notch by notch, which made this problem disappear with the Quest 3.
It may be slightly different with other VR headsets and other PC configurations.
rscompetition01
5 months ago
stesso problema con hp reverb g2 non si avvia in vr se setto openxr steam vr il gioco si blocca nella schermata principale del gioco
Dabadia21
5 months ago
The right bug eye still present here. But only when I haven't enought power to processing the game (>95%). Seem that the left eye works with less frames, but the right eye renderer a black frame when drop frames.
7800x3D + 4070Ti + Q3 here via VD or AirLink.
CapPeanut
5 months ago
@Sp0uny Hey pal, thanks for letting us know that you managed to fix the issue. I'm happy to report that your method worked for me as well. I haven't tried every car, but it does indeed seem to have solved the right-eye problem entirely.

Absolutely ridiculous that the EA support team couldn't figure that out themselves, if all it took was a simple setting change - but I'm glad I can at least finally play the game again after 2 months of waiting.
Sp0uny
6 months ago
Hi,
Right eye bug SOLVED !
Today, I tried to make this game working with the Pimax Crystal Light.
There is nothing to do, whether in SteamVR or Open XR mode, you have to put almost all the settings on low or ultra low in order to have an acceptable fluidity, but with these settings the game looks like a Playstation 2 game, with huge clipping, the track flashes, in short it is horrible and unplayable.

So I restarted the game with the Quest 3 in Oculus mode, it is incredibly better, the game is fluid with all the settings in ultra, no clipping, in short a completely different experience.
I've only tried 2 VR headsets with this game, but from what I've seen it's only playable with the Q3.

About the right eye bug, I solved this problem on my PC by changing a single setting in the game: In the Advanced Graphic Settings menu, I reduced the Post Processing Quality setting from Ultra to High. If a driving session is started when you change this setting, it may be necessary to restart the race for the right eye bug to disappear.

So this problem is solved in my case, I find it sad that no one at EA noticed that this problem was related to this setting, and did not inform the affected players by an official communication...
LeazesnDR
6 months ago
Quest 3 user... Cant even start WRC in VR at all now. Pretty poor stuff from a company that alledgedly is a AAA Sports game company. Am giving up trying until the next EA Sports WRC update. Thank gawd for Dirt Rally 2
Sp0uny
6 months ago
Hi,
FYI, if it can help developers reproduce the problem and fix it, here is what I noticed today.
Following the purchase of a Pimax Crystal Light (before I used a Quest 3), after launching the game I had exactly the same display problem in the right eye => Exact same issue !

The Crystal Light is much more demanding with the hardware, and despite my high-end PC (7950X3D + 4090 Strix OC + 64Gb RAM....), with the Quest 3 and all the settings set to maximum I managed to have very good fluidity without any stutters, which was no longer the case with the Crystal Light.

As a result, I reduced most of the graphics settings from maximum, to high or medium, and when I returned to the game the display problem in the right eye had disappeared.
I conclude that even with a high-end PC that manages to be fluid with the graphics settings set to maximum, it causes this display issue.
So for those who have this problem, I advise you to lower your graphics settings, this will allow you to play while waiting for the developers to fix this problem.
That said, it is an annoying problem not being able to use the full performance of your PC and this problem must be solved.