9700k + rtx 2070, horrible performance in VR

[KnightofSpades]

Having a difficult time with the VR experience. The performance is almost unplayable. Very strong hitches and low fps every minute. Even playing on the lowest possible graphics, Ive noticed no change in performance. Anyone having similar experiences or know of any solutions?

[Weaver]

I play on high in VR with a rtx 2070 and an ryzen 7 2700 no issues. What settings do you play on in pancake mode?

[KnightofSpades]

Weaver の投稿を引用：

I play on high in VR with a rtx 2070 and an ryzen 7 2700 no issues. What settings do you play on in pancake mode?

pancake mode everything set to ultra and runs perfectly. But in VR its horrible, even on lowest. All my other VR games run perfectly well on high settings, its just this game Im having issues with :(

[Jerhyn]

Hopefully you have this installed on an m.2 hdd. I have a 9900, 2080 ti, 32gbs ram and an m.2 hdd. No issues with performance on VR. Your setup is only as strong as your weakest link.

[KnightofSpades]

its on an m2 ssd as well. I just cant figure it out, even looking at the task manager performance, my gpu and cpu are only 35% utilized. I wonder if it has anything to do with my monitors refresh rate, its 144hz, but I have no way to turn it down to match the rift S.

[profanicus]

Jerhyn の投稿を引用：

Your setup is only as strong as your weakest link.

Easy for you to say. :P

You shouldn't need that level of machine to get acceptable VR performance on the low settings. And I've seen people with lower specced hardware than myself/OP claiming to have 'no issues' in VR too.

But for me VR has always ran very poorly. My weakest link is an i7 7700k and according to the Oculus debug my 2080ti is the bottleneck, not the CPU.

Are you guys running at a locked half frame rate? Or getting a constant 85/90? Which HMDs are you using? I'm on Rift S, like OP. :)

[Oakshadow]

Not really enough information for anyone to really trouble shoot without making random guesses.

Things that could be holding your gameplay back:

Ram on the 2070: Not all graphics cards by the same name are built the same way. Card makers frequently will sell the same card with different on board ram capacities to meet different price points. That said if your card has less than 8 gigs you're going to run into issues. Though I can't see a 2070 selling with less than that onboard. Still worth checking.

Hardware combo is causing overheating: You're running two beefy high end pieces of equipment there... I'd check your temps, you may have to invest in new fans or make sure you have AC going.

Background processes: Check your background processes and use a program like ccleaner to disable things on startup that you don't actually need on startup. Windows updates can wreck your processing power too. Though microsoft doesn't give you any notice or choice as to when those happen anymore.

Lastest Drivers / firmware for bios: This never used to be a thing but processors are now buggy enough on release that they have to be "optimized" with bios updates now.... And sometimes those updates aren't even an improvement. If you haven't flashed your bios in some time I'd think about doing so..... and if you did recently, perhaps you should attempt to revert it to a previous version.

Above all though, keep in mind that Devestation only released this morning.... it's likely to have bugs and possible performance issues. So send Hello Games a copy of your steam system spec file and report your issue. If nothing you've tried works. There's a good chance it's something that may have to be addressed in the next hotfix patch.

[Oakshadow]

Ser Gallow の投稿を引用：

its on an m2 ssd as well. I just cant figure it out, even looking at the task manager performance, my gpu and cpu are only 35% utilized. I wonder if it has anything to do with my monitors refresh rate, its 144hz, but I have no way to turn it down to match the rift S.

I don't think it's the refresh rate... as VR headsets are considered to be an additional monitor. If the game resolution if set too high for the headset that might cause problems however.

If your Gpu and CPU aren't having issues and it's not your drive.... it's likely a matter of ram. Try setting up a memory swap on one of your SSDs.... If that helps it's probably lack of ram space, either on your motherboard ram or on your graphics card as I stated before.

[profanicus]

Those are all good points but I don't think it's as simple as any of that for many people. I.e. you can't always blame the end user. :)

There have been a bunch of ongoing threads here and on Reddit by people with decent hardware puzzling over poor VR performance issues ever since VR update released. It's a massive rabbit hole and nothing ever made the game fully playable for those that experience these severe problems. It usually seems to be Oculus/Intel/Nvidia users having the trouble.

[KnightofSpades]

Jay の投稿を引用：

Not really enough information for anyone to really trouble shoot without making random guesses.

Things that could be holding your gameplay back:

Ram on the 2070: Not all graphics cards by the same name are built the same way. Card makers frequently will sell the same card with different on board ram capacities to meet different price points. That said if your card has less than 8 gigs you're going to run into issues. Though I can't see a 2070 selling with less than that onboard. Still worth checking.

Hardware combo is causing overheating: You're running two beefy high end pieces of equipment there... I'd check your temps, you may have to invest in new fans or make sure you have AC going.

Background processes: Check your background processes and use a program like ccleaner to disable things on startup that you don't actually need on startup. Windows updates can wreck your processing power too. Though microsoft doesn't give you any notice or choice as to when those happen anymore.

Lastest Drivers / firmware for bios: This never used to be a thing but processors are now buggy enough on release that they have to be "optimized" with bios updates now.... And sometimes those updates aren't even an improvement. If you haven't flashed your bios in some time I'd think about doing so..... and if you did recently, perhaps you should attempt to revert it to a previous version.

Above all though, keep in mind that Devestation only released this morning.... it's likely to have bugs and possible performance issues. So send Hello Games a copy of your steam system spec file and report your issue. If nothing you've tried works. There's a good chance it's something that may have to be addressed in the next hotfix patch.

Thanks Jay, very informative. Will definitely look further into your suggestions. I'm definitely gonna look into the ram aspect, see whats eating it up in my background processes.

[KnightofSpades]

profanicus の投稿を引用：

Those are all good points but I don't think it's as simple as any of that for many people. I.e. you can't always blame the end user. :)

There have been a bunch of ongoing threads here and on Reddit by people with decent hardware puzzling over poor VR performance issues ever since VR update released. It's a massive rabbit hole and nothing ever made the game fully playable for those that experience these severe problems. It usually seems to be Oculus/Intel/Nvidia users having the trouble.

This is so true. Especially oculus and nvidia literally pointing fingers at each other constantly.

[TheSha]

You can try to tweak the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS file, located in steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS, here you simply have to change the value of "NumHighThreads" to 8 and the one of "NumLowThreads" to 0, I have your same cpu and I use this values, never played vr since I don't have an headset but this fixed all the performance issues I had

[yimimoto]

I too have micro stutters in VR all the time. I am using a 1080 ti, 17 8700k and 32 GB of DDR4 and the game itself on the highest settings are barely using any cpu or gpu. I also switched it to an ssd and no difference. I have also tweaked every setting in the settings files ad nauseam and nothing changes. The micro stutters are the same on highest to lowest settings.

Pancake mode seems flawless.

[danilpetrovec8gamehag.com]

пепепр

[profanicus]

TheSha の投稿を引用：

You can try to tweak the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS file, located in steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS, here you simply have to change the value of "NumHighThreads" to 8 and the one of "NumLowThreads" to 0, I have your same cpu and I use this values, never played vr since I don't have an headset but this fixed all the performance issues I had

This is one of the most common magic 'fixes'. It never did anything for me.

If Ser Gallow wants to try, they need to change the VR version of the file,

TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.VR.MXML

and set it to read only, as the game now reverts those values back whenever it starts.

I wonder if anyone actually noticed that they are no longer playing on their modified setting? ;)

[Uncle Rusty]

NMS VR performance sucks on Intel/Nvidia/Oculus. That's what I have, and the performance on my 2080Ti and 6700K@4.7 isn't great. It used to be downright unplayable, but something in this latest update seems to have made it a lot better, and I have no idea why.

I spent several months after launch trying every single tweak and hack to attain playable performance, but now matter what I did, and on low or all high GFX settings, the game was always a shoddy mess that was stuck in reprojection much of the time.

I have no idea what fixed it, because I tried VR again a few weeks ago and it was awful, and then as of yesterday it's playable. No windows updates or driver changes on my end since then.

If you have a Ryzen 2000/3000 CPU, performance seems to be a lot more consistent.This game also seems to fare better on the Vive and Index, as there are Oculus-specific issues and this is a SteamVR native title. This is literally the only game out there that runs significantly better on AMD than Intel, interestingly enough. Unfortunately not a single major PC site or Youtube I know of has done any sort of extensive performance testing since launch, I'd really like to see a VR FPS comparison of various setups on test benches.