VR Settings that works for me, a mid-range PC VR gamer - Hope this helps others

[The Starglider]

Since I upgraded my Rift-S to a Quest 3 not too long ago, my VR experience with the game had gone from great to pretty poor, obviously down to the higher resolution of the Q3. So for the past week I have been fiddling with loads of settings to finally find that balance that isn't terrible looking but runs smooth enough to be enjoyable. So here below is all the changes I made to various settings to get the game as a smooth experience on my PC (I play the game wired to my PC, no wireless PCVR for me!):

PC Specs
AMD Ryzen 7 5700x (non-OC)
Nvidia RTX 3070Ti (non-OC)
32Gb 3600Mhz Ram (4 x 8Gb)
MSI X570-A Pro Motherboard
Western Digital PCIe4 1Tb NVMe drive

Game Settings
Texture Quality - Enhanced
Animation Quality - High
Shadow Quality - Standard
Post Processing - Standard
Reflections - Enhanced
Volumetric Effects - Standard
Terrain Tessellation - Enhanced
Planet Quality - Enhanced
Water Quality - Standard
Base Complexity - Enhanced
Anisotropic Filtering - 1
GTAO - Off
Anti Aliasing - DLSS
DLSS Quality - Performance

Nvidia Control Panel - Manage 3D Settings - Program Settings - nms.exe
Monitor Technology - Fixed Refresh
Power Management Mode - Prefer maximum performance
Preferred refresh rate - Application-controlled
Texture filtering - anisotropic sample optimisation - On
Texture filering (Quality) - On
Threaded optimisation - Off
Vertical Sync - Off
(All other settings can be left at Global default settings)

Meta PC App - Graphics Preferences
Refresh Rate - 72Hz
Rendering Resolution - 4224 x 2272

SteamVR
Render Resolution - Custom
Resolution Per Eye - 2084 x 2272 (96%)

Ordinarily my settings for the Meta app and SteamVr would be much higher for other games, but No Man's Sky is a VR killer, so the above settings (for me) have resulted in a very smooth playable experience.

The point of this post? Well simply I thought it might be helpful for others who might be having a poor VR experience, and hopefully these settings may improve your gameplay. Do let me know if it worked for you. Of course I do expect those with much high specifications to be running at a much higher rate, but for us poor people who cannot afford a 4090 or the highest end Ryzen or Intel CPU might benefit from my experiments!

[Lyntz_fr]

Did you have problems to launch the VR mode with steam VR ? i am playing lot of VR games, i wanted to try No Man Sky but it doesn't launch in VR mode, it keep launching on my screen instead of my HP Reverb G2.

[The Starglider]

Originally posted by Lyntz_fr:

Did you have problems to launch the VR mode with steam VR ? i am playing lot of VR games, i wanted to try No Man Sky but it doesn't launch in VR mode, it keep launching on my screen instead of my HP Reverb G2.

I find I have to always launch SteamVR before launching NMS. The slightly irritating thing is that on the Rift-S I used to be able to launch the game directly from the Oculus menu. Oh well, one extra step. But it loads just fine otherwise.

[Lyntz_fr]

Originally posted by The Starglider:

Originally posted by Lyntz_fr:

Did you have problems to launch the VR mode with steam VR ? i am playing lot of VR games, i wanted to try No Man Sky but it doesn't launch in VR mode, it keep launching on my screen instead of my HP Reverb G2.

I find I have to always launch SteamVR before launching NMS. The slightly irritating thing is that on the Rift-S I used to be able to launch the game directly from the Oculus menu. Oh well, one extra step. But it loads just fine otherwise.

Yeah i tryed that too, some games work better by launching SteamVR before launching the game, but that doesn't work for NMS.