PSA to Quest 2 players

[the milk man]

I don't see this mentioned enough. Here's what I do see thrown around if you're experiencing a choppy framerate in the HMD:
Enabling "-vrmode oculus" fixes the framerate issues.

... Sort of. Frames drop after a while regardless (on my end at least) even on powerful hardware like mine (RTX 3070 Ti, i9-12900k, 2x16gb ddr4), AND vibration feedback glitches out for many of us. This throws off our performance significantly, as one might imagine. Vibration feedback is perfectly fine in SteamVR mode.

Here's what I figured out, that I have literally only seen mentioned once in one obscure thread on the internet:

Disable Oculus mode and run it through SteamVR, but go though your Steam VR settings and set SteamVR as the default OVR runtime under the "Developer" tab.
This fixed everything for me. Now I have a consistent 120fps, and vibration feedback is working as it should.

It's also worth playing around with Windows' game mode toggle and disabling the Nvidia Experience overlay.

*EDIT: Also disable ASW in Oculus Debug Tool.

[Senzoba]

So with disabling oculus mode how do I do that

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Senzoba:

So with disabling oculus mode how do I do that

It's off by default, but if you ever want to enable it, right click on Beat Saber in your library, click properties, and put "-vrmode oculus" under launch options.

[Senzoba]

Originally posted by the milk man:

Originally posted by Senzoba:

So with disabling oculus mode how do I do that

It's off by default, but if you ever want to enable it, right click on Beat Saber in your library, click properties, and put "-vrmode oculus" under launch options.

with or without the quotes

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Senzoba:

Originally posted by the milk man:

It's off by default, but if you ever want to enable it, right click on Beat Saber in your library, click properties, and put "-vrmode oculus" under launch options.

with or without the quotes

Without

[Senzoba]

Originally posted by the milk man:

I don't see this mentioned enough. Here's what I do see thrown around if you're experiencing a choppy framerate in the HMD:
Enabling "-vrmode oculus" fixes the framerate issues.

... Sort of. Frames drop after a while regardless (on my end at least) even on powerful hardware like mine (RTX 3070 Ti, i9-12900k, 2x16gb ddr4), AND vibration feedback glitches out for many of us. This throws off our performance significantly, as one might imagine. Vibration feedback is perfectly fine in SteamVR mode.

Here's what I figured out, that I have literally only seen mentioned once in one obscure thread on the internet:

Disable Oculus mode and run it through SteamVR, but go though your Steam VR settings and set SteamVR as the default OVR runtime under the "Developer" tab.
This fixed everything for me. Now I have a consistent 120fps, and vibration feedback is working as it should.

It's also worth playing around with Windows' game mode toggle and disabling the Nvidia Experience overlay.

Thanks for this info it helped I was experiencing choppy framerates but this cleared that up nicely and can now play songs that had this issue

[Gamefriendly]

Thanks. I'll try this next time; see if it gets better.

[Koslinajani :3]

Hi.Unfortunately, my game works even worse with these settings. I putted the -vrmode oculus on. Until I find a fix for the game . I have no hope that the game will ever function well again. Thanks for the advice anyway.

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Koslinajani :3:

Hi.Unfortunately, my game works even worse with these settings. I putted the -vrmode oculus on. Until I find a fix for the game . I have no hope that the game will ever function well again. Thanks for the advice anyway.

Did you check your SteamVR supersample resolution settings? Auto is broken because for some reason SteamVR sets the resolution ridiculously high.

[Koslinajani :3]

Originally posted by the milk man:

Originally posted by Koslinajani :3:

Hi.Unfortunately, my game works even worse with these settings. I putted the -vrmode oculus on. Until I find a fix for the game . I have no hope that the game will ever function well again. Thanks for the advice anyway.

Did you check your SteamVR supersample resolution settings? Auto is broken because for some reason SteamVR sets the resolution ridiculously high.

Hi.What resolution did you set?

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Koslinajani :3:

Originally posted by the milk man:

Did you check your SteamVR supersample resolution settings? Auto is broken because for some reason SteamVR sets the resolution ridiculously high.

Hi.What resolution did you set?

I have mine set at 340% at 3540x3540 per eye (with 3200x1632 being the set resolution in the Oculus software), but start with 100% and go up from there if performance is good. You can set resolutions per-game too under "Video > Per-Application Video Settings" in SteamVR's settings.

[Koslinajani :3]

Originally posted by the milk man:

Originally posted by Koslinajani :3:

Hi.What resolution did you set?

I have mine set at 340% at 3540x3540 per eye (with 3200x1632 being the set resolution in the Oculus software), but start with 100% and go up from there if performance is good. You can set resolutions per-game too under "Video > Per-Application Video Settings" in SteamVR's settings.

Thank you for your detailed response

[Michelangelo]

A friend of mine just bought a Quest2 but he is not using it with a PC.

If he buys Beat Saber from Steam, can he still play it directly from the Quest2 hmd (like copying it on the internal memory) or he must only buy it from Oculus Store instead?

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Michelangelo:

A friend of mine just bought a Quest2 but he is not using it with a PC.

If he buys Beat Saber from Steam, can he still play it directly from the Quest2 hmd (like copying it on the internal memory) or he must only buy it from Oculus Store instead?

If he bought the Quest 2 version, he plays that port directly from the hmd under the device's own OS. Some Quest 2 games are cross-buy, but Beat Saber is not, so he'll have to buy it again on Steam or the PC Oculus store if he wants to play on PC.

TLDR, yes he'll be playing it directly from the hmd and not from his PC.

[Michelangelo]

Originally posted by the milk man:

Originally posted by Michelangelo:

A friend of mine just bought a Quest2 but he is not using it with a PC.

If he buys Beat Saber from Steam, can he still play it directly from the Quest2 hmd (like copying it on the internal memory) or he must only buy it from Oculus Store instead?

If he bought the Quest 2 version, he plays that port directly from the hmd under the device's own OS. Some Quest 2 games are cross-buy, but Beat Saber is not, so he'll have to buy it again on Steam or the PC Oculus store if he wants to play on PC.

TLDR, yes he'll be playing it directly from the hmd and not from his PC.

He didn't bought it yet.

If he buys from the Oculus store, will I be able to see his scores from Steam?
(I have a Vive Pro, I have Beat Saber on Steam and added him on Steam only)
Or maybe is there any way to buy the game from Steam and still play it on the Quest2 without a PC?

[the milk man]

Originally posted by Michelangelo:

Originally posted by the milk man:

If he bought the Quest 2 version, he plays that port directly from the hmd under the device's own OS. Some Quest 2 games are cross-buy, but Beat Saber is not, so he'll have to buy it again on Steam or the PC Oculus store if he wants to play on PC.

TLDR, yes he'll be playing it directly from the hmd and not from his PC.

He didn't bought it yet.

If he buys from the Oculus store, will I be able to see his scores from Steam?
(I have a Vive Pro, I have Beat Saber on Steam and added him on Steam only)
Or maybe is there any way to buy the game from Steam and still play it on the Quest2 without a PC?

As far as I know, the answer is no to all of these questions. The Quest 1/2 is it's own entirely isolated platform that happens to allow you to use it as a PCVR headset. Just a fancy Android device, really. Steam and Oculus' platforms don't communicate with each other.

Think of it as PlayStation and Xbox players not being able to have anything to do with each other (taking crossplay out of the question).