u/Difficult-Average-11

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Pimax Dream Air iRacing recommended settings for RTX 5080

Hey,

Recently got the headset, and I have been very happy with it, especially after upgrading the facial interface.

I have an RTX 5080 with a 7800X3D, and I play iRacing. Here are the settings that I run:

  1. Running the sboys3 driver with Pimax Evo

  2. I have set the Pimax Evo to 90hz, and Render quality to 1

  3. In SteamVR I have set the resolution to 150%.

For the in-game settings, I am running some decent settings:

  • Most of the settings to low, and two-pass trees and high-quality trees set to off, except fo car details and events, which are set to high
  • Shader quality: max
  • MSAA 4x sharp
  • Only running virtual mirror; no other mirrors on.
  • Crowds: off
  • Pit objects: low
  • Shadow maps: on
  • Self shadowing: off
  • Foveated rendering enabled

I put together the settings above, mostly by browsing different sources on the web and a bit of experimenting

Now, I am getting mostly a stable 90 fps; however, in some cases I do have some slight frame drops, especially this week in the Jerez circuit, only at specific corners. This doesn't seem to be consistent with last week's race at Nürburgring, where even on rain, I had much more stable FPS. Yes, I know the performance can vary from track to track; however, I get the feeling that I am losing something somewhere.

I am running fpsVR, and oddly enough, this week, even if I am the only car on the track, I get some GPU utilisation to 90%, even more, which is extremely weird.

My questions are:

  • Have I gotten something seriously wrong that might be a performance hog?
  • If someone has a similar system, what would you do to get an even more stable frame rate?
  • While in the pits and looking around at the sky and at some objects, I see a bit of very subtle jittering that goes away as soon as I start driving, or rather, I no longer notice it.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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u/Difficult-Average-11 — 14 days ago

Dream Air vs a Crystal Light?

Hi,

I am running a Pimax Crystal Light with an RTX 5080 gpu., playing iRacing.

I have been moatly happy with it, apart from some occasional small frame drops.

I am thinking of upgrading to the Pimax Dream Air, because it's smaller and seems to have some better performance.

I have been watching countless materials and reviews, but still can't decide.

My main question is: is the Dream Air more demanding than the Crystal Light? I think so because of its slightly smaller FOV.

If anyone had a similar experience or can offee some insight I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a lot, happy gaming!

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u/Difficult-Average-11 — 2 months ago