Guides A performance Guide for Virt-a-Mate (& other apps)

I'm getting 45 FPS native in VaM and 113 FPS with Lossless generating the extra frames stutter-free. It's a night and day difference without tweaking my 4080 or my 13900K (the way I assumed it would take to get to these speeds!). I've got a Pico 4, Virtual Desktop, and WiFi 6. I've been on VaM since 2019 and this is the break-through that I've been waiting for, aside from VaM2.

Really wonderful guide! I'm a total noob at Vam+VR, having done all previous work with the desktop version. Hoping this will give me a strong foundation. EasyVam not only made a great guide, but also took to time to help out us noob's!

Thank you for the guide, it was really helpful. However, I would like to give some additional recommendations:
1. It is actually possible to combine VRPerfKit (previous tutorial) with VD. For my setup, this is much better than VD alone. The Synchronous Spacewarp often generates severe artifacts when there are flashing lights or frequent teleports (Such as playing Vam Produce 69). The super resolution of VD is also not as good as FFR+FSR in VRPerfkit.
2. For those who connect PC to router via WiFi, VD will likely show "PC not wired to router" warning. I solved this by turning on mobile hotspot on PC and connect my headset to the hotspot rather than the WiFi router. This significantly improved latency and stability.
My setup is i7-14700k + RTX4080S with quest 3 headset. I am able to run almost everything smoothly (60+ fps) under godlike quality without frame generation or loss of image quality. Hope other people find this useful!

Thanks for the info. I had no idea about lossless scaling and i'm surprised how well it works with VAM.

An amazing guide all around. Saw a huge improvement in FPS. As someone who creates their scenes solely in VR, this is a huge boon. Best part is it took maybe 5 minutes to set it all up. Thanks for putting this together. <3

very useful tools, but I wonder if you know how to get the VRPerfKit RSF plugin working, as it seems like that currently breaks the VR controls for VAM if you try to install.

I'm also not 100% sure that the install locations I'm using for the foveated plugin work, currently I'm installing to the openvr_api.dll and VaM.exe locations (slightly different instructions to the guide)

thanks!

Can't believe I missed that, my pc getting old but I got a real fps gain, thank you so much !

Fantastic guide. As someone who builds all their scenes in VR, this guide was game changing! I was able to see a gain of almost 40 fps, which is huge when you're spending 4+ hours in the editor.

It's awesome to have such a simplified guide showing all the resources and steps. There's a lot of resources out there, and some of them don't have the best docs. Nice to see them all brough together in an easy to understand doc. Thanks for putting in the hard work to make it easier for the community. 10/10!

Thank you so much for this!!!! You're the best for taking the time to help out the community, at least 40 FPS in vr vam is essential. Had one question: when you say foveated rendering is baked in with the quest pro, is there a way to enable it? I use quest pro but I'm pretty sure it's not active while I'm in vam.

Very good guide, everyone should read this when they join the hub its so useful!

leaving a rating for the time to help us out.

i need help with this

Dont run VaM via SteamVR. Supported VR runtimes:
Oculus
OpenVR
Use this config preset if you have crashes on startup, make sure VaM and Oculus are set to 1.0 resoloution Scale and give the VaM.exe admin-rights.

i've set administration rights but i don't know where i can change the vam and occulus resolution to 1.0

Thanks for sharing.
Sadly when i tried it it just crashed. does anyone have a idea what to do?`
i'm using a oculus quest 2 with air link and a nvidia 3080 with nis activated.
thanks in advance!

thx for let us know this great idea~~~

Awesome, thanks for the write up and links. Can't wait to try it out.

is there any point to get the desktop app from steam if i am running a 4090 gpu? As I understand it this is geared towards machines which are less powerful?
Also with the VR Performance Kit, does it just work without needing to install or anything? Just copy the files into the correct places and it will automatically work?

Great write up

vrperfectkit worked for me with their default config file (also using Oculus Quest 2). I have lower end hardware, but was able to keep a consistent 18fps (ouch) even adding in MSAA and a few pixel lights. Did have some issues with crashing using your config file, but switching over to the default one seems to have fixed it. Thanks!