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What was the actual problem in this test thread? Pictures apparently have been published perfectly fine as far as I can tell.
Nothing gets lost or is a mess. Apparently the forum software authors just tightened the grip a bit to strengthen security (at least that’s my guess), so more stuff than before may require manual approvement before it gets published.
There is no cache to clear in this case. Only in some games memory scanner values stay the same between sessions. In these games the cache is used. In other games however (The Outer Worlds included), the values don’t stay the same, so the cache isn’t used.
Profiles are stored in a database, you can drag and drop them as files to your PC from the local profiles list in the config app. You can also upload your user profile to the cloud if you want to share it with others.
Headset runtimes may decide to throttle to 45fps at their own discretion if they feel that makes sense. Oculus does that, Pimax probably too.
I didn’t encounter any crashes myself, but I could imagine that the currently released DX12 code may cause some graphics driver crashes occasionally, especially if you max things out like you do. The new code will cost a few FPS in CPU bound scenarios (almost certainly not affecting you as you probably are GPU bound already), but that’s a small price to pay for the added judder/crash safety.
I would consider even medium settings a tough choice for this game in VR, doing my tests with a 1080Ti here. Go with a performance preset, start with the lowest (but texture detail set to high) and don’t overdo it with the resolution. Game still looks gorgeous and you will be much happier performance wise. I get solid 60fps+ at 2560×1440 (no FOV mod) in the Horseshoe camp, 70fps+ in the surrounding wilderness that way on my 1080Ti dev machine.
Unless you have a real beast of a machine with a 2080Ti and some seriously overclocked CPU, that’s clearly what makes most sense for playing in VR. And even if you happen to have such a beast, you can’t expect wonders. The game is just highly demanding, with or without vorpX.
BTW: Incidentally I did an overhaul of the game/headset syncing last week, with that there will generally be less DX12 judder. I was bit too optimistic in regard to how that is done in DX12 before.
Considering that you are you: don’t crank everything up to ultra, especially combined with super high resolutions. You can easily overload even the fastest PC with this game. As always with new games the best method to find the ideal graphics settings is to start with a reasonable resolution and the lowest detail preset (texture detail can usually be set higher) and than start raising detail settings from there.
From my experience I would recommend always to turn FluidSync on with WMR headsets. All other headsets work fairly well without it these days, but WMR always judders heavily in almost any game here unless it either runs at full 90 or 45. Fairly odd. Overall I spent at least a full week to get to the bottom of that, another day just last week, but no dice. I will default enable FluidSync for WMR again with the next update.
Guess at some point I have to get a Reverb, just to check whether it does anything better than the first gen WMR headsets. The software/driver comes from Microsoft though and is the same for all WMR headsets, so I consider that relatively unlikely.
Bottom line: Enable FluidSync with a WMR headset.
I think the latest game update, which I received yesterday, made things considerably worse. Just four days ago I had things running better in every aspect compared to the last released vorpX: better frame rate, yet still less prone to judder. With yesterdays update however the game suddenly runs far worse than before.
Happens with or without vorpX BTW. If that is some general issue with this new RDR2 update, and not just an odd problem over here, that’s probably what you are seeing too.
Apart from that:
The Oculus runtime is harder to convince to stay at the full refresh rate, it tends to automatically throttle down to half the refresh rate when it thinks that makes sense. Not much that can be done about that except ensuring you GPU isn’t maxed out. Typically Oculus headsets work better than WMR though, at least in my experience. I don’t have an Odyssey, but the WMR headset I have here is fairly prone to inexplicable judder without FluidSync enabled. Rift(S)/Vive/Index typically are far better in that regard than WMR.
Pöease reset all GAME settings to default. If you tweaked some graphics settings in the game, you might have changed something that leads to vorpX not finding the the right depth buffer. Can’t really recommend anything elase.
Please make sure to enter the same mail address into the download form that you used to activate vorpX. The system will ignore unknown e-mail addresses. Please also check your spam folder.
If you did both, and still did not receive an e-mail, let me know.
If you could do that before, you encountered a bug. Official profiles for a number of reasons can not be overwritten. I understand that as a long time user you may consider that an unnecessary restriction. As a workaround you might be able to rename the game’s .exe and create a new profile that uses the renamed .exe. Doesn’t work for every game though.
vorpX tries to hook into the emulators directly, which may work for some, but not for others. You usually will need an emulator with DirectX or OpenGL rendering for that. But even than hooking the emulator may fail.
You can however play any windowed (or ‘fullscreen windowed’) application directly in the desktop viewer if you disable the vorpX watcher (tray icon right click menu) before launching the app or by adding the .exe of the emulator to the exclude list in the vorpX config app.