VR Users - START GUIDE

[Wilck]

MAJOR UPDATE in 01/05/2025
*Engine.ini to FSR MODE.
*New Engine.ini to DLSS QUALITY.

UPDATE in 07/04/2025
*New graphics settings (The game is more heavy in the last update)
*new recommended FOV... heavy... =\
*Use DLSS 310.1 file
*new refinaments for the DLAA;

UPDATE in 31/03/2025
*Complete overhaul of the GUIDE;
*DLAA is the default option now;

UPDATE in 26/03/2025
*Adjustments for the 2.3.1 version of the game:
*Changes in: eye adaptation, color mid, sharpening and AA Quality;
*Recommend using DLSS 310.1 and PROFILE J (10); DLSS 310.2 and Profile K doesn't resolve very well the Anti Aliasing and ghosting.

UPDATE in 19/02/2025
*Removed various command lines

UPDATE in 30/01/2025
*Adjustments for the 2.2.1 version of the game
*A few upgrades in quality graphics and FOV for GODLIKE setting.

UPDATE in 26/01/2025
*Notes about DLSS 4 (310.2)
*Night mode (sound) for Q3
*AF 16x is now possible with new DLSS.

UPDATE in 05/12/2024
*Add some lines to force better material upscaling

UPDATE in 13/11/2024
*Include external link to definitive fix for the microstutters.

UPDATE in 03/11/2024
*Presets for others GPUs ready to play on Quest 3.

UPDATE in 22/10/2024
*Lock the DLSS profile in engine.ini (Help with image stability)
*Lock the bloom quality to resolve the snowflackes

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REQUIREMENT

- High tier CPU (i5 - serie 13 or above), AMD (serie 7000 or above), x3D chips recommended
- High tier NVIDIA GPU - 4070Ti or above
- Disable OpenXR Toolkit
- OpenXR headset preferable
- At least 12 GB of VRAM
- GPU with DLSS capable (preferable)

- A LOT OF PATIENCE...

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IMPORTANT

*Use DLSS 310.1 and Force DLAA (Great Clarity):
Works even better than DLSS Auto MODE ON. But have a BIG glitch in some sky and trees. It's more heavy than DLSS Auto, BUT the results even in lowest resolutions (2500x2500) are very, very decent.

* HistoryScreenPercentange create several bugs in AMD cards. Drop off if you use AMD cards. The image will lose a LOT of resolution...

*Any adjust include in [SystemSettings] create the right eye black frame. So if you have this glitch remove all the codes and this headline there.

*Don't use the Post Processing in Ultra, create the wrong camera position in left\right eye.[

*OpenXR Toolkit DON'T WORK in this game. There is nothing to do about it.

*Disable SMT (AMD or INTEL) DO IT! This engine hate SMT!

*For MICROSTUTTERS - Disable "Control Flow Guard for the WRC.exe. Instructions on the link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Back4Blood/comments/qgjp2z/psa_disable_control_flow_guard_for_better/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

*Use DLSS 4 (310.1) - NOT the 310.2 - DLSS file has to be installed manually on the game folder. It's a game change, brings better LATENCY (a lot), sharpening, fluidity and have only a few artifacts now. RECOMMEND! [/b] This engine.ini already choose the profile.

Game folder
C:\xxxxxx\Steam\steamapps\common\EA SPORTS WRC\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Nvidia\DLSS\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64

Download the version 310.2 at:
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/

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After +285 hours of testing, gaming and searching for tweaks, trying to achieve the best quality on VR and FLAT gameplay on this game, here is my tips and know-how acquired.

Here the hardware and software used.
Quest 3 – V74
PCVR - 9800x3D + 2x16 GB (6000 Mhz) + SSD Nvme 4.0 + RTX 4090
Virtual Desktop 1.34.2
EA WRC - Version 2.3.1 beta VR
Windows 11 24H2

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NVIDIA DRIVER ADJUSTS

Let’s talk about the nvidia drivers. Some adjusts is necessary here:

Used version: 561.09

Go on Manage 3D Settings - Program Setting
Add a profile for the EA WRC, if not exist, and change:

- Texture Filtering Negative LOD bias – “Clamp” (Helps with the textures)
- Texture Filtering Quality – "High"
(High Quality is [b/RECOMMEND[/b] cost about 8% more, BUT resolve very well the textures in game)
- Vsync – “Fast” (Games running on window mode, I like to fix this config)
- Low Latency Mode – “On”
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP ADJUSTS

Run the game on VDXR mode.

On the VD Quest App – Tab Streaming

• VR Graphis Quality – “ULTRA” (2688x2784 per eye) - For steamVR users try to match this resolution)
  
• VR Frame Rate – “80 fps"
  
• Decode - H264+
  
• VR Bitrate – “450 Mbps”
  
• No sharpening
  
• Gamma - "0.99"

Advanced Options (THIS ITEMS ARE IMPORTANT)

• Snapdragon Game Super Resolution – “ON” – In another games I choose OFF, but in this game it’s necessary. (Every extra performance is useful)
  
• Track controllers – “OFF” – This option disables Quest 3 Controllers and Hand Tracking inputs. – Why off? The inputs on Quest, sometimes bugs\overlap the controllers in game, and request the restart of everything.
  
• Increase color vibrance – “ON” – Helps with the color pallet in game. (GAME CHANGER)

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ENGINE.INI - ADJUSTS

This is an extensive topic, because a lot of tweaks are necessary on this file to run this game decently. Put the codes on the file locate in:
C:\Users\XXXXXXXXXX\AppData\Local\WRC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

FOR DLSS QUALITY (310.1) - PROFILE J (10) - VD at GODLIKE - 80 FPS - FOV 88H / 78V

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.70
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1.68
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.Color.Mid=0.49
r.Color.Max=0.94
foliage.DitheredLOD=0
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=1
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=1
r.TemporalAA.Upscaler=1
r.PostProcessAAQuality=4
r.AntialiasingMethod=2
r.TemporalAA.Quality=3
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.15
r.TemporalAAFilterSize=0.15
r.TemporalAASamples=4
r.NGX.Enable=1
r.NGX.DLSS.Enable=1
r.NGX.DLSS.DilateMotionVectors=1
r.NGX.DLSS.EnableAutoExposure=1
r.NGX.DLSS.Preset=10
r.NGX.DLSS.Reflections.TemporalAA=0
r.NGX.DLSS.WaterReflections.TemporalAA=0
r.NGX.LogLevel=0
r.NGX.EnableOtherLoggingSinks=0
r.Velocity.ForceOutput=1
r.BasePassOutputsVelocity=1
r.Velocity.EnableVertexDeformation=1
r.VertexDeformationOutputsVelocity=1
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures=1
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=3
r.Upscale.Quality=5
r.Upscale.Softness=0
r.BloomQuality=3
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.FilmGrain=0
r.SSR.Quality=1
r.SSR.MaxRoughness=0.01
r.LightShafts=0
r.TranslucentLightingVolume=0
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0

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FOR DLAA (DLSS 310.1) - VD at ULTRA - 80 FPS - FOV 78H \ 58V

(OUTDATED)

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.70
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1.65
r.Color.Mid=0.49
r.Color.Max=0.94
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.TemporalAA.HistoryScreenpercentage=120
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=0
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=0
r.PostProcessAAQuality=6
r.AntialiasingMethod=2
r.TemporalAA.Quality=2
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.15
r.TemporalAAFilterSize=0.10
r.TemporalAASamples=2
r.NGX.Enable=1
r.NGX.DLAA.Enable=true
r.NGX.LogLevel=0
r.NGX.EnableOtherLoggingSinks=0
r.TemporalAA.Upscaler=1
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures=1
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=3
r.Upscale.Quality=5
r.Upscale.Softness=0
r.BloomQuality=2
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.FilmGrain=0
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0
r.SSR.Quality=1
r.SSR.MaxRoughness=0.01

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FOR FSR 2 - VD at GODLIKE - 80 FPS - NO FOV ADJUST

(NEWER!)

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.70
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=2.20
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.Color.Mid=0.49
r.Color.Max=0.94
foliage.DitheredLOD=0
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=1
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=1
r.PostProcessAAQuality=4
r.AntialiasingMethod=2
r.TemporalAA.Quality=3
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.20
r.TemporalAAFilterSize=0.15
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.Enabled=1
r.Velocity.ForceOutput=1
r.BasePassOutputsVelocity=1
r.BasePassForceOutputsVelocity=1
r.VelocityOutputPass=1
r.Velocity.EnableVertexDeformation=1
r.VertexDeformationOutputsVelocity=1
r.Velocity.EnableLandscapeGrass=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ForceVertexDeformationOutputsVelocity=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.HistoryFormat=0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.AutoExposure=0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.AdjustMipBias=0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.CreateReactiveMask=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.DeDither=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.UseSSRExperimentalDenoiser=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskReflectionScale=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskReflectionLumaBias=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskRoughnessScale=0.60
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskTranslucencyBias=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskTranslucencyLumaBias=1
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveHistoryTranslucencyBias=0.0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveHistoryTranslucencyLumaBias=0.0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ReactiveMaskPreDOFTranslucencyScale=0
r.FidelityFX.FSR2.ForceLandscapeHISMMobility=1
r.TemporalAASamples=8
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures=1
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=3
r.Upscale.Quality=5
r.Upscale.Softness=0
r.BloomQuality=2
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.FilmGrain=0
r.SSR.Quality=1
r.SSR.MaxRoughness=0.01
r.LightShafts=0
r.TranslucentLightingVolume=0
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0

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IN GAME ADJUSTS:

VR Settings
3D Location Reveal – “OFF” breaks a lot the loading in the gameplay
Fixed Horizon – “OFF” – Definitely.

Custom Hidden Area Mask (HIGHLY NECESSARY – FOR ALL GPUs)

• Area Mask X Offset “minus 12” and Y Offset “positive 6” – Because we are cutting the render area is necessary to Adjust the position of the “visible area” on the lens
  
• Area Mask Width – “78” – Cut the Image render on horizontal
  
• Area Mask Height – “58” – Cut the Image render on vertical

These items reduce a lot the FOV; the values are aggressive, but is necessary for performance. And reducing the vertical FOV don’t take too much immersion in rally games.


Sound Settings
For who uses the default speakers in Quest 3, go in sound profile in game and enable
the night mode for better audio immersion, works very well. You can listen the tires, the surface and weaks sounds way better. Give a try.


Brightness Setting
0.50 for Quest 3, (HEAVY RECOMMENDED for the eye-adaption value in engine.ini and Gamma value in VD Quest App)


Basic Setting

• Resolution – 1280 x 720
  
• Display Mode – Windowed
  
• AA Quality – Low
  
• Anisotropic Filtering – 4x (night and rain) and 8x (for dry)
  
  
• Foveated Rendering Strength – “2” – 3 for MORE performance available, BUT remove too much details from the textures.
  
  
• (IMPORTANT) Upscaler – Set according to the engine.ini profile. Recommend restart the game after do a change. The DLAA engine.ini will overlap this option.

Advanced Settings
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS

Shadows – “High" (works better in the most scenes, create less drawcalls. Ultra is too expensive in ALL scenarios)

Fog – “On”

Particles (CPU DEMAND) – “Ultra” - Because the heavy rain is very annoying on High.

Weather – “High” - Ultra give some extra effects on Rain \ Snow weather.

Crowd (CPU DEMAND) – “Ultra” -

Ground Cover – “Medium” (High \ Ultra is very demmanding on GPU)

Trees – “High" - Ultra is heavy and will bring stutterings

Dynamic Objects – “High” - (Ultra works better if you have a lot of headroom, because create less drawcalls, but drops the fps a lot in some heavy moments.

Post Processing - "Ultra-low" for anthying below 4080 or High for 4080 / 4090. (Obs: Low or medium performes worse in every scene on NVIDIA GPU)

Car Reflections – “Ultra-low" - DON'T CHANGE THAT!

Mirrors – “Off”

Track – “Medium" – adjust the complexity of the objects on scene (cars, build, barracs, rocks, road, etc..)

Textures – “Ultra" for 16 GB of VRAM \ "High" for 12 GB of VRAM.

Shaders – “Medium"

GPU	3080Ti \ 3090 \ 4070Ti \ 4080	4090 DLSS QUALITY GODLIKE OR 7900XTX FSR GODLIKE
FPS	72	80
FOV	78(H) - 58(V)	88(H) - 78(V) NVIDIA NO FOV ADJUST TO AMD
Shadow	Medium	Medium
Fog	On	On
Particles (CPU)	High	High
Weather	Medium/High	High/Ultra
Crowd	Medium/High	Ultra
GroundCover	Low/Medium	Medium/High
Trees	Medium	High
Dynamic Objects	Medium/High	High
Car Reflection	Ultralow	Ultralow
PostProcessing	Ultralow	High
Mirrors (CPU)	Off	Off
Track	Low\Medium	Medium
Textures	High	Ultra
Shader	Medium	Medium/High

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cacazor:

There's also this resource I came across: https://www.overtake.gg/downloads/bloom-draw-distance-and-stutter-fix.64770/

I'm giving a look in this post right now. But the mostly of the codes there, I know that don't work well in the latest version of the game. Some there do the opposite, create problem for VR... But I'll give a try either way.

[pixelcowboy79]

New update patch incoming. Wonder if there will be VR improvements.

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av pixelcowboy79:

New update patch incoming. Wonder if there will be VR improvements.

Hahaha, by the released notes, probably no.
But in the last update, doesn't have much "improvements" in the release notes either, and the game became better...

Who knows...

Beside that, this week I made little tweaks, that, for me, level up a little more the quality of the gameplay here. I'll wait the new patch to do a few test, before release here.

[pixelcowboy79]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Wilck:

Ursprungligen skrivet av pixelcowboy79:

New update patch incoming. Wonder if there will be VR improvements.

Hahaha, by the released notes, probably no.
But in the last update, doesn't have much "improvements" in the release notes either, and the game became better...

Who knows...

Beside that, this week I made little tweaks, that, for me, level up a little more the quality of the gameplay here. I'll wait the new patch to do a few test, before release here.

Awesome, thanks for your continued contributions.

[Desmond]

Can't get VR working with VD. VR runs on desktop but black screen on the headset :(

[nyom]

Why the HACK is EA not doing this on there own!? I mean they sell a bad VR experience and now ppl have to go into 20 configs and all kind of settings, to make it a not bad experience. IS EA to poor to make things right or what!?

They got payed for this game.... i mean wtf.... making a good cfg file is just to hard, just to crazy for EA highperformers.

[Cacazor]

Using your settings and DLSS 3.8 works well. I find AF at 8x sharper than 16x which has too much noise. For a varjo areo and 4090 13700k, I have to set SteamVR resolution to 50%, crop more vertical fov - move it up so its not as noticeable, and lower a couple of settings (ie shadows low, track medium) to maintain a stable 90fps

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cacazor:

Using your settings and DLSS 3.8 works well. I find AF at 8x sharper than 16x which has too much noise. For a varjo areo and 4090 13700k, I have to set SteamVR resolution to 50%, crop more vertical fov - move it up so its not as noticeable, and lower a couple of settings (ie shadows low, track medium) to maintain a stable 90fps

Nice! 8x is enough for me too, at night I cannot use more than 4x. Crop vertical FOV is the key to unlock performance and for me don't bother in anything. Please help me with an information. In the Varjo Aero, 50% of resolution in SteamVR is effectively what resolution?

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Desmond:

Can't get VR working with VD. VR runs on desktop but black screen on the headset :(

I tried after update 2.1.6. Zero problems running the game here on Virtual Desktop, with DLSS 3.5 or 3.8.

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av pixelcowboy79:

Awesome, thanks for your continued contributions.

You're welcome! And the new adjusts that I promissed are there. Recommend.

[Cacazor]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Wilck:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cacazor:

Using your settings and DLSS 3.8 works well. I find AF at 8x sharper than 16x which has too much noise. For a varjo areo and 4090 13700k, I have to set SteamVR resolution to 50%, crop more vertical fov - move it up so its not as noticeable, and lower a couple of settings (ie shadows low, track medium) to maintain a stable 90fps

Nice! 8x is enough for me too, at night I cannot use more than 4x. Crop vertical FOV is the key to unlock performance and for me don't bother in anything. Please help me with an information. In the Varjo Aero, 50% of resolution in SteamVR is effectively what resolution?

2935x2512

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cacazor:

2935x2512

And this resolution allowed you to have great clarity on this headset? I'm ask because the native resolution of this headset is insane high.

[Cacazor]

Well, it's much more clearer now than defaults for sure, and I can stay at 90fps. I wouldn't say great clarity compared with other titles. This is the first game I've had to drop the resolution for (a whole 50%) and I typically can run titles in native OpenXR at >100%.

I just tried native VarjoOpenXR again with all OpenXR layers and upscaler disabled, nothing in engine.ini, and it still crashes to desktop. I'm stuck with SteamVR for now.

I've read WMR headsets like the G2 are also having issues with WRC's OpenXR

[Wilck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cacazor:

Well, it's much more clearer now than defaults for sure, and I can stay at 90fps. I wouldn't say great clarity compared with other titles. This is the first game I've had to drop the resolution for (a whole 50%) and I typically can run titles in native OpenXR at >100%.

I just tried native VarjoOpenXR again with all OpenXR layers and upscaler disabled, nothing in engine.ini, and it still crashes to desktop. I'm stuck with SteamVR for now.

I've read WMR headsets like the G2 are also having issues with WRC's OpenXR

Yeah... The game compatibility is bad. And they haven't supported WMR since the beginning. Even SteamVR have various related problems.
At least SteamVR haven't big performance gap between native OpenXR.

[Wilck]

Minor Update in 09 december.