Enabling settings in Meta Quest 2 home for 120Hz because I didn't know the desktop PCVR settings for it weren't enough..Casual 110 FPS increase..

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I guess i look silly in a couple ways because not only i didn't notice the refresh rate was the same, before enabling a second setting for 120hz (found in the meta 2 settings before connecting to PCVR rather than the normal settings you would change on the desktop for resolution and refresh rate), but i also didnt know that setting for it even existed.

So in case anyone is in the same situation as me and didnt know that option existed and/or hasnt tried 120hz refresh rate, it might be worth trying. It not only adds refresh rate but for me it literally added 110 FPS...

I say this from the average scenes I use on max settings absolutely everything but my Meta 2 headset resolution at the standard 1.0x, with everything but an environment added, from hair and tons of plugins and custom atom person and sound/reactionary scripts (VAMMoan etc.), which i used to get a steady 90 FPS for from a hands distance away from the models face, these are all now giving me 200 FPS steady....... the look on my face when i saw that 200...

Hopefully this can help someone as it has me, very exciting to spend all this time since the release of VaM trying to maxamize FPS by even 1 or 2 frames, and everything from CPU performance upgrades of multiple varieties over the years to the new windows update that was supposed to boost performance, unfortunately did not for me probably as ChatGPT pointed out because my hardware is pretty good and it was already handling what it could regardless of the small things i was changing. However something as simple as literally doubling my refresh rate which i thought would ruin my FPS actually more than doubled it..

 

[drolic]

Can you be more specific? Are you saying you did not have 120hz set on the headset itself ? What are you using for vam ? airlink/link cable / virtual desktop? The only reason I'm not using 120hz in virtual desktop is because passthrough is not supported.

 

[VaMFavGame]

(I am the topic creator you are asking the question to, i lost my login info and made a new VaM account.)

My setup; Meta quest 2 using PCVR link cable, no steam, just launching VR in the VaM folder.

What happened was i set 120Hz on my PC desktop in the meta app, the place where you choose your resolution and refresh rate for your VR headset, and i thought that would be enough, but outside of my PC desktop, in the VR headset home and the settings within it, there was actually a hidden option to enable 120Hz, despite me doing so on my PC desktop which didnt work unless enabling the other option as well. Once I did i literally jumped up from 90FPS to 200FPS.

I recently gained even more FPS by disabling SMT in BIOS and overclocking my CPU using Ryzen Master as suggested in CPU Performance Patch plugin, and enabling ASUS performance and core performance enhancer in my BIOS as well.

This brought me from a steady 90 FPS with 288 refresh rate on the physics from ~ 2 feet away , to 90 FPS an inch or more away (not 200 I stated; i recently realized i had set physics to auto despite everything else being max settings and changing to 288Hz brought my FPS down from 200 to 90. It is super worth it, it feels amazing)

 

[MacGruber]

The problem with the higher refresh rate is that it reduces the resolution. Because of bandwidth limitations of what can be transferred to the Quest 2. At least I had that issue when using Meta Quest Link via Wifi.

 

[VaMFavGame]

The problem with the higher refresh rate is that it reduces the resolution. Because of bandwidth limitations of what can be transferred to the Quest 2. At least I had that issue when using Meta Quest Link via Wifi.

Interesting! I dont think I had that problem because I use PCVR cable link without Wifi, i didn't notice that happen for me. I also have a very high quality USB-C cable connecting my quest 2 to my PC which is "3.2 Gen, 20Gbps" so maybe that helped as well. Regardless that is helpful info so i dont mislead people using Wifi who wanted to try this.
And of course, i must say tyvm for all you've done for VaM, always use your plugins dude.