VR + GTX 1080 = Unplayable?

[Xaiiro]

Hello everyone.
I'm pretty new to ED (played 25 hours in 2020, non-vr, 2D graphics was awesome, good perfomance on the same GTX 1080) and decided to try it again, but this time in vitrual reality.
BUT image quality is awful and no settings are making it better! If i set HMD quality and everything else on high-ultra - picture is okay-ish but definetely not what i expect on "high-ultra". Perfomance-wise it's of course unplayable on this settings.
Even on everything low and off i can't get 90 fps in hangar or main menu, only about 70-80. But image quality is so bad that i'ts impossible to play.
I've tried VR Perfomance Toolkit - not changing anything at all, not sure it even works.
Used ED Profiler to configue graphics, in-game menu - nothing helps.

Is it something i missing? Or nowdays i need something like RTX 3080 or better (4080-4090) to get nice image quality and performance?

Fulll specs:
i5 10400
GTX 1080
16 GB DDR4 2666 dual-channeled
OS and game are on SSD

I know that this is mediocre config, but any other VR game i played before never looked and performed so bad as ED.

Will appreciate any help on what may be wrong. Or just confirmation that there is no way to run game smoothly on my setup.
Thank you!

 

[Arioch]

First question: Elite Dangerous Horizons (Legacy 3.8) or Odyssey/Horizons 4.0?
Second: What headset?

I played 3.8 with an i7 8700 + GTX 1080 on Rift S and Quest 2 with mostly High/Ultra settings and SS 1.25 and I think it looked good with a steady framerate of 80/72Hz depending on the HMD.

Odyssey ran like dog eggs on that set up and I needed to drop lots of settings - on my current i7 10700 + RTX 4070ti I’m back up to where I want it looking.

 

[Xaiiro]

First question: Elite Dangerous Horizons (Legacy 3.8) or Odyssey/Horizons 4.0?
Second: What headset?

I played 3.8 with an i7 8700 + GTX 1080 on Rift S and Quest 2 with mostly High/Ultra settings and SS 1.25 and I think it looked good with a steady framerate of 80/72Hz depending on the HMD.

Odyssey ran like dog eggs on that set up and I needed to drop lots of settings - on my current i7 10700 + RTX 4070ti I’m back up to where I want it looking.

Horizons 4.0, i don't have Odyssey.
Pico 4 through Virtual Desktop, 100% resolution in SteamVR, High preset in VD.

Legacy 3.8 runs better and i should try it out or there is no reason now?

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

Legacy is basically a dead end. There will be no new content, it has been split off before the Thargoid invasion, and nothing you do in Legacy will carry over to the live galaxy. I would suggest it is a waste of time getting into Legacy for anything but nostalgia. The live galaxy, which is Horizons 4.0 / Odyssey, is the future as far as content and a "living" game goes.

As for performance, the 4.0 client will struggle on a 1080, more so when run through virtual desktop. I have no clue about the pico, does it not support SteamVR? Why go through VD? Or is it for wireless? This will probably put additional strain on your system. But as I said, I have no clue on how the pico works. All I know is: My system with a 5900X and a 3080 Ti struggles at times with the 4.0 client.

 

[Arioch]

Horizons 4.0, i don't have Odyssey.
Pico 4 through Virtual Desktop, 100% resolution in SteamVR, High preset in VD.

Legacy 3.8 runs better and i should try it out or there is no reason now?

You should see a big performance increase with 3.8 - but you’ll lose the on-foot stuff, tenuous atmosphere planets, the different planet tech, current Thargoid battles, etc.

I’m toying with the idea of reverting back to 3.8 because of several really annoying VR bugs that have been extant for far too long.

 

[Xaiiro]

New content is awesome, but meaningless if i can't experience it due to the perfomance issues.
I'll try 3.8 tho, thanks for suggestion.

 

[Xaiiro]

New thing - i can't launch legacy version in VR, because SteamVR always lauching Odyssey.
Seems like reinstall is the only way to do it.

 

[Arioch]

New thing - i can't launch legacy version in VR, because SteamVR always lauching Odyssey.
Seems like reinstall is the only way to do it.

There is a way around it, I think.

I’m pretty sure I’ve read some posts with the same problem but can’t recall the solution off the top of my head.

Hold on a mo….here we go:
Thread 'How to launch Horizons in Steam VR if you have Odyssey installed?'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...team-vr-if-you-have-odyssey-installed.577506/

…but if you don’t want the faff, getting rid of Odyssey will simplify things.

 

[Xaiiro]

I ended up reinstalling legacy version.
And it fixed image quality and performance! Now i can play with a good image and more or less stable 90 fps on a middle vr settings.
I guess this is the only way i can play this game. Thanks all for help, you are the best!

 

[BinakAlgo]

A year ago I still managed to run Odyssey in a Rift CV1 with a GTX 1660 super and an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, almost everything was at low but it managed most except high combat zones, but I guess the game has changed since then. Optimizations have been thrown out of the window for many years...