Used to have ok performance

[Legend-X®]

Now I dont know what happened to it. but its super choppy. Only the start screen is smooth. Found so many games where unreal games have terrible performance. I wonder what is happening...

[Del_Pierro]

Same here with an RTX 4090. Maybe a SteamVR or WIN11 update that tanks performance.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

I had this exact experience today with a 3080 but found a workaround.

The game was bad, exactly as you described, when I launched from Virtual Desktop's games tab.

The game was smooth throughout, ran great, when I first had VD launched SteamVR, then navigated to launch the game from inside SteamVR.

[grzegorz77]

On 4xxx cards and in Win11 these may be power saving issues. Try keeping the desktop window active, increasing the graphics settings, and the like.

Quest 2 and quest 3 can cause some horrible problems, it's hard to resist the impression that the changes in the software are made specifically to "encourage" people to buy vr games only in the facbook store.

Maybe one of these thoughts will lead you to something.
But if not, it's just a small free game.
As a consolation, I can suggest two other interesting vr

https://store.steampowered.com/app/512270/Home__A_VR_Spacewalk/


https://store.steampowered.com/app/943170/Blast_the_Past/

[mataro]

Have Windows 11?
Disable Game Mode and Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows settings app, that fixes many issues with Steamvr games.

But this game in particular freezes after ~15 minutes of smooth play.