Quest 3 + iRacing VR looks terrible and has black edges during head movement even though Link is smooth
Hi everyone, I’m losing my mind trying to set up iRacing in VR with a Quest 3.
My PC specs:
- GPU: RTX 5060
- CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
- RAM: 32 GB
- Headset: Meta Quest 3
- Connection: Wired Quest Link
- USB cable test: around 2.5 Gbps
- iRacing installed through Steam
Quest Link itself is smooth. The Link environment and desktop view are not laggy. The problem starts when I launch iRacing in VR.
What happens:
- iRacing launches in VR, but the image quality is incredibly bad
- Distance visibility is awful and distorted
- When I move my head, I see black areas/edges like the game is not rendering fast enough
- It feels like the world is dragging behind my head movement
- Even on default/low graphics settings, it still looks terrible
- OpenXR gives better FPS than Oculus mode, but the image quality is still bad
- Oculus mode also does not fix it
- SteamVR is not intentionally being used
What I have already tried:
- Set iRacing display mode to OpenXR
- Set Meta Quest Link as the active OpenXR runtime
- Tried Oculus mode as well
- Set Meta Quest Link to 72 Hz and default/automatic render resolution
- Reset Oculus Debug Tool settings:
- Pixel override: 0
- Encode width: 0
- Bitrate: 0
- Link sharpening: Quality
- ASW: Auto
- Tried low iRacing graphics settings
- Renamed/deleted rendererDX11OpenXR.ini so iRacing could regenerate it
- Confirmed Quest Link itself is smooth outside of iRacing
- Updated/checked NVIDIA driver
- Cable seems okay because the Meta USB test shows about 2.5 Gbps
I’m not expecting perfect visuals, but this is way worse than normal VR blur. The black edges during head movement make it basically unplayable, and far distance detail is extremely distorted.
Is there a known issue with Quest 3 + RTX 5060 + iRacing/OpenXR?
Is there a specific rendererDX11OpenXR.ini setting I should check?
Could this be ASW/reprojection, OpenXR runtime, NVIDIA driver, or iRacing config related?
Any step-by-step baseline settings for Quest 3 wired Link + iRacing OpenXR would be really appreciated.