Odyssey VR performance is very poor

[ApexAzimuth]

I tried Odyssey in VR for as long as I could stand it this morning, but the performance is beyond terrible. Worst performance of almost any VR app I've used.

In Horizons CPU and GPU frametime is 3 to 12 ms.

Odyssey this morning with all graphics settings as low as they can go:
15 to 35 ms
Which is full time reprojection, and even dropping BELOW 45fps. Frametime is suffering badly on both GPU and CPU, so there's no fixing this, and I don't see a hardware upgrade giving me a 300% performance boost in order to play like Horizons did. I'd suggest to FDEV to not even enable VR for Odyssey until they can improve the performance. I mostly play Elite in VR (90% of play), so Odyssey is a no go for me until this is addressed.

System:
i7-6700k 4.5Ghz
RTX 2080 Oc'd
16Gb RAM
SSD

 

[CMDR VR]

Even an RTX 3080 and a ryzen 5800x are not enough anymore to run it "maxed"

 

[VR Mr Teatime]

I tried Odyssey in VR for as long as I could stand it this morning, but the performance is beyond terrible. Worst performance than almost any VR app I've used.

In Horizons CPU and GPU frametime is 3 to 12 ms.

Odyssey this morning with all graphics settings as low as they can go:
15 to 35 ms
Which is full time reprojection, and even dropping BELOW 45fps. Frametime is suffering badly on both GPU and CPU, so there's no fixing this, and I don't see a hardware upgrade giving me a 300% performance boost in order to play like Horizons did. I'd suggest to FDEV to not even enable VR for Odyssey until they can improve the performance. I mostly play Elite in VR (90% of play), so Odyssey is a no go for me until this is addressed.

System:
i7-6700k 4.5Ghz
RTX 2080 Oc'd
16Gb RAM
SSD

Is that in ship/SRV or on foot (or both)?

 

[ApexAzimuth]

Is that in ship/SRV or on foot (or both)?

This was around Gresley Dock. The tutorial (Virtual 2D Screen) also ran so badly I couldn't stomach it.

 

[MickyG1982]

It's not going to be great at the moment, not with every player either downloading or trying to play the game, that is bound to affect performance.

That said, dropping SS a bit and the shadows down to low at 1080p improved performance quite a bit on my laptop.

 

[Old Duck]

I'd just like to say that I predicted this. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I did make a pretty big deal about it during the alpha.

Thankfully Horizons still runs great

 

[ApexAzimuth]

It's not going to be great at the moment, not with every player either downloading or trying to play the game, that is bound to affect performance.

That said, dropping SS a bit and the shadows down to low at 1080p improved performance quite a bit on my laptop.

Are you talking about Pancake mode or VR, because if you're talking about a laptop It's hard to believe you're doing much with Elite in VR.

I had all settings turned completely down or off- CPU and GPU frametime was still consistently higher than 11ms when it should be the opposite. Network latency wouldn't cause that much of a global slowdown.

And as Old Duck said, we saw how awful this was in Alpha. I was just hoping it was a diagnostic build running extra logging processes, but that doesn't appear to be the case. It's just not optimized in the slightest.

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

Thankfully Horizons still runs great

Yes, we have a few months left untill they roll the gfx changes in.

 

[Old Duck]

Yes, we have a few months left untill they roll the gfx changes in.

We can thank the consoles for that! All hail my PS4 and XBox kin

 

[The Nephilim]

I'd just like to say that I predicted this. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I did make a pretty big deal about it during the alpha.

Thankfully Horizons still runs great

I'm pleased to hear the latter part of your comment because I'm thinking of buying a Quest 2 this week.

 

[Old Duck]

I'm pleased to hear the latter part of your comment because I'm thinking of buying a Quest 2 this week.

Just remember Frontier will be rolling Odyssey "upgrades" back into Horizons later this fall...

 

[The Nephilim]

Just remember Frontier will be rolling Odyssey "upgrades" back into Horizons later this fall...

Yeah but the game'll be out properly by then, rather than the Beta released today. Hopefully they'll have fixed a lot of the performance issues.

 

[Kyokushin]

poor performance does not matter - we can lower details etc, but this 2d flatscreen projection is total immersion breaker

 

[ApexAzimuth]

poor performance does not matter - we can lower details etc, but this 2d flatscreen projection is total immersion breaker

Unfortunately from what I can tell, no we can't.

It's unplayable for me even with every setting as low as it can go. Again this is coming from a pretty consistent 90fps in Horizons with medium-ish settings.

 

[Derek Speare [VR]]

Yeah, and some of the effects are borked. The DSS is borked. The ship icon and planet/station icon adjacent to the radar screen in the cockpit view are totally fooged with each one showing different sizes and perspectives in each eye. FPS is garbage, too.

what? Do they not actually test this?

 

[T-CAT73]

I can confirm what the OP said, for me running a RTX3070 it's unplayable and broken, the framerate dropped to 22 fps in stations while docking, in horizons I had 90 FPS. Going back to Horizons for the time till they fixed it? As a PvP Cmdr senseless, for Horizons players can't instance with EDO Cmdrs and I guess most Cmdrs will switch to EDO. Result is a split community, like in two different games -- until they enable crossplay later this year...

 

[T-CAT73]

"I did make a pretty big deal about it during the alpha" > and I got ****stormed for that by my entire clan (exept one)

 

[[VR] scipio_77]

Runs completely fine for me on a 1080 potato in VR, I don't notice any difference in framerate. I'm still on the original Vive.

Lighting is better, planets look better.

 

[ApexAzimuth]

Runs completely fine for me on a 1080 potato in VR, I don't notice any difference in framerate. I'm still on the original Vive.

Lighting is better, planets look better.

I'm also on the original Vive, but my VR performance is absolutely awful.

What are your specs/settings, and what kind of FPS do you usually get (horizons)?

 

[Kaltern]

At least we know why VR isn't supported for planetside stuff - there's no way it would be even close to playable. I'm almost convinced that's the REAL reason it's not in VR, and not because they couldn't do it - they just know it'll cause much vomiting. Even ASW wouldn't help with such low framerates.