No man's sky vr unplayable due to stuttering lag.

[DR.Potato]

My specs
I9 9900k
Radeon 5700 XT
16gb ram

This is the only vr game I have a problem with.
The game lags badly and stutters especially when moving my head. Changing the graphics setting from standard to ultra makes a very minimal difference, I noticed on the steam vr graph it was showing alot of purple lines. I went into advanced timing view and could see that my CPU was causing alot of the spikes. How is this possible when I have one of the most powerful Intel chips you can buy?

Is there any fix to this because the game is a stuttering mess.

[EA Latium]

Have a look at this thread, I hope it may help.

For what is worth I'm playing it on a Rift S with a modest I7-7700, everything is smooth as butter, so I'm sure that in a way or another, you'll be able to have a great experience don't worry.

[DR.Potato]

I have already tried the fix there and tried varied combinations, it still hasn't fixed the stuttering

[Tholbin]

Was working fine on my setup until steamvr update 1.14.15, after which the headset has severe jitter when in NMS. Hoping hotfix from valve will fix eventually. Opened a call with Hellogames just to make them aware. AMD Vega 64, Ryzen 7. Index.

[DR.Potato]

Ironically I think I played the game very briefly before 1.14.15 and it was running smoothly then. I thought it was odd that it would stutter now.

When I take the headset off and look on the desktop, there is no visible lag there. I can move the headset around and there is no lag that can be seen on the desktop mirror.

However when I put the headset on, when moving my head around I can see insane amounts of laggy stuttering.

[Dougolas]

I'm also having terrible issues with reprojection. I have recently upgraded from a Rift S (which played NMS almost flawlessly with my 5700XT) to an Index and I cannot achieve a smooth experience no matter how many settings I tinker. I've got a 3900X 12-core processor. Hoping we can figure something out! I've tried disabling all sorts of RGB software to the Xbox overlay, running only a single monitor, and have now tried both the games pass and steam versions of the game to try and get it working.

[DR.Potato]

Yes, it is very strange.

Reprojection is insane and it is sad.

I can get a almost smooth play by bringing down the resolution to 20% and putting everything on the lowest settings, with still some reprojection present. But damn the game looks horrible and I won't play it in that state.

I can turn everthing to ultra and high resolution and the reprojection is pretty damn bad but if I take off the headset like I said, and look on the desktop screen, there is no reprojection showing on that mirror view.

I hope there is a way to solve it.

[Rexxer]

Putting the game on an SSD also helps some, esp. with the initial load. NvMe is fine of course, too, but I noticed that since some STEAM players have over 2 Tb of STEAM data, they often put it on a mechanical drive somewhere.

[Ephysona]

BUMP

I'm having the same issue. Looks like the left and right eyes are a bit out of sync or something and they're constantly trying to catch up to each other. I really don't think syspecs have anything to do with it because it IS running at the target FPS. It's a reprojection issue, for sure. The SteamVR menu displays nicely over the game, but the game itself is a horrendous mess.

[The Male/Man]

It'd be nice if it could add comfort options like head-based direction too.

[Ephysona]

Oof yeah, that'd be nice.

[The Male/Man]

Mmm.

[!@#$%^&*()]

Make sure Windows Game Mode as well as any Multi-thread enhancements in your GPU control panel are disabled, they don't play nice with NMS at the best of times and in many cases incorrectly identify VR tracking services as background processes and they end up getting throttled.

[b1vantage]

I use Index and have never had this issue. I am using steam VR Beta and NMS experimental maybe that make some difference . i7-6700 and 1080ti here.

[Martin]

Originally posted by DR.Potato:

My specs
I9 9900k
Radeon 5700 XT
16gb ram

This is the only vr game I have a problem with.
The game lags badly and stutters especially when moving my head. Changing the graphics setting from standard to ultra makes a very minimal difference, I noticed on the steam vr graph it was showing alot of purple lines. I went into advanced timing view and could see that my CPU was causing alot of the spikes. How is this possible when I have one of the most powerful Intel chips you can buy?

Is there any fix to this because the game is a stuttering mess.

Do you have other stuff running in background? If so either, exit them, or run nms as admin. Which you'll probably need to do from it's steam folder.

:\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries nms.exe (right click and select Run as Administrator) This will dedicate all your resources to running nms. It may or may not help. But worth trying.

[UnsupervisedTrain]

I am having the exact same issue on my Valve Index, on my Radeon RX 5600 XT, Ryzen 5 3600. As you mentioned, turning down the graphics all the way helps a little bit, but it's still unplayable. No such tearing with any other game, or when playing NMS pancake mode.