Share your BMS VR settings that work well. Here is what works for me, AMD PC.
Hello,
I find BMS VR works really well, rarely less the 72 fps and I often see people say they have trouble with finding setting that work.
I thought I’d share what works for me.
PC I’m using is a 7800x3D and a 7900XTX, Virtual desktop wired Ethernet, H264+ 468mpbs, set a medium or 100% resolution. Quest 3. I use mixed reality pass through. I run 5 monitors and have a solid TE benchmark that is a 72fps.
I’ll mention what people might find the most difficult to change first. Which is editing your Falcon BMS User.cfg file. It’s found in your local drive the game is installed on. For me it’s C.
Local disk C:/Falcon BMS 4.38/User/Config
In this file we are going to open with notepad or notepad ++, “Falcon BMS User.cfg” we can then add lines so that we can override BMS settings and they will not change even when there is a game updates. These are the lines I’ve added. Copy everything including the word “set” into the file we opened. Don’t forget to save it.
set g_fRadarScale 1.5
set g_fHADSymbolSize 0.050
set g_fHSDSymbolSize 0.050
set g_bShadowMapping 1
set g_nCockpitMaxTexRes 8
set g_nModelsMaxTexRes 2
//set g_sTexturesLODPreset "Custom"
set g_nTerrainHiresTilesMaxTexRes 2
set g_nTerrainPhotorealMaxTexRes 16
set g_nHdrToneMapMode 0
set g_bDetailedFrameRate 0
set g_bShowRainRings 0
set g_bNewTerrainRenderShrubs 0
set g_bNewTerrainRenderGrass 0
In the list above, the
set g_fRadarScale 1.5 makes the radar symbol bigger so I can see them easier in VR. No change to performance that I’d be aware of.
g_ncockpitmaxtexres I actually set to 0 since I never look at the in game cockpit. It will look like a potato at 0 if you’re using the in game cockpit. 8 is the max, lower it to find the best cockpit graphics/ performance.
//set g_sTexturesLODPreset "Custom" I’m not actually decided on what I want this set to, so it’s commented out. Reference the BMS Technical Manual pages 281 and 282.
set g_nHdrToneMapMode 0, if you change this number from any from 0-9 it will change the colour of the game to different presets. this is cosmetic but fun to play with.
set g_nTerrainPhotorealMaxTexRes 16. 16 is the max setting for 16K textures, lower this to gain performance. Valid values to set are, 4, 8 or 16.
set g_bNewTerrainRenderShrubs 0
set g_bNewTerrainRenderGrass 0. THESE TWO, Shrubs and Grass, are huge boosts in performance. Make them 0 for VR.
FOR MORE INFO: go to the last page of the BMS Technical Manual and work back from there. It’s located in Docs in the Falcon BMS install file in BMS Manuals.
In game under SETUP/ GRAPHICS set
Antialiasing to 2 (higher than 2 kills my performance).
Object Detail to 3
HDRBLOOM 0
HDRBLUR 0
Trees 0
Grass 0
(I still see trees in game, and they look fine at the 8km, bloom and blur are up to you).
I’m interested if anyone else sees flaws in my settings or things they have done to get better perf.