VR Resources for Oculus HMD's

COMPOUND Tier:

Racket: Nx Demo, COMPOUND Demo, Compound

Supersampling Heaven:

Beat Saber, BoomBox, Ragnarock, Vivecraft, Gorilla Tag, Grapple Tournament, Agent Simulation Demo, Duck Season, I Expect You to Die 2, (demo) Wings VR, Pistol Whip

Lightweight:

Audica, Fracked*, The Lab, Rec Room, Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades, (lowest settings) Half-Life 2 VR, (Based on a comment by fholger) Synth Riders, Jet Island, Pavlov VR*(Vanilla maps and CS:GO map ports with 10 players or less, which is not the norm)

Medium(plenty of games fit here):

Crisis VRigade 2, VTOL VR, War Thunder, (Near-lowest settings, 100% resolution + TAA) Bullet Train, Sprint Vector, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Hellsplit Arena, Phantom: Covert Ops, Until You Fall, Half-Life: Alyx, (with SSR and SSAO disabled) Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades, (low-medium settings that I use) Espire 1: VR Operative, RUINSMAGUS, District Steel, Nitro Nation VR

Heavyweight:

Boneworks, Echo VR, Asgard's Wrath, Paradox of Hope Demo, Stormland, Hard Bullet, Pavlov VR, (most of the time) Fruit Ninja VR 2, Automobilista 2 Demo, Eye of the Temple, Half-Life: Alyx, (low settings, SSR and SSAO disabled) Grimlord, VAIL Closed Beta, SUPERHOT VR, Mayhem on a Rainbow, Vertigo 2 Demo, Propagation VR*, Tracery of Fate Demo, Undead Citadel Demo, Hubris VR

Super-Heavyweight(Too heavy for a locked 72Hz on most systems):

some Half-Life: Alyx modded maps, Shibainu: VR Katana Simulator, (Steam Next Fest demo) Blade & Sorcery, VRChat, Project Wingman, Boneworks, (Specifically the Tower mission, just that mission) Cyberpunk Samurai VR Demo, praydog's RE Engine mods(RE2, RE3, RE7)

Help, My PC Is Dying:

Green Hell VR, Resident Evil VIIlage(praydog mod), most of the Luke Ross mods, Neos VR

I use Heavyweight as my benchmark: Alyx is an especially effective benchmark since Source 2 uses all of the VRAM that you'll have access to.

Most games I use 0.8x FSR with, however, I'll now be going into game-specific stuff:

Part 6: Game-Specific Things

Sorted by demanding threshold:

Fracked: Has no native AA support, but the game's so GPU-light that you can run it at 170% supersampling on your "default resolution" without running into performance issues. The only area in the entire game that I found dropped frames was a cutscene at the end of Mission 6. Gorilla Tag: Similar to Fracked but you can go up even higher: 200% is easy.

BoomBox: Recommended to use 130% SS with 0.8x FSR, SMAA, and 120Hz(code for calculating timing score is framerate-dependent)

Duck Season: Forced 4X MSAA, but the game is so well-optimized that you can supersample it to hell and back.

Ragnarock: 150% SS with "Super High" TAA is my recommendation.

Pistol Whip: Forced 4X/8X MSAA(not sure which one)

The Lab: Not compatible with OpenVR FSR or VR Performance Toolkit.

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: Incompatible with OpenVR FSR, VR Performance Toolkit, or even forcing SteamVR.

Sprint Vector: Compatible with VR Performance Toolkit, but cannot force SteamVR with it. It will crash on startup if you do.

Bullet Train: Forced TAA, the "glow" setting I mentioned earlier.

Phantom: Covert Ops: Compatible with VR Performance Toolkit, but uses deferred renderer: TAA on Low recommended.

Hubris: OpenXR-only, not compatible with any performance alterations. Forced TAA, has an actually functioning dynamic resolution system.

Stormland: Is the only game I've tested to have SMAA as a native option instead of requiring ReShade to use it. "Blurriness" is caused by Stormland's reliance on depth-of-field as a visual effect.

Propagation VR: "High" TAA, volumetric lighting enabled[little performance cost], medium textures. Not compatible with OpenVR FSR, but fully compatible with VR Performance Toolkit. 0.7x render scale recommended for decent visual quality. You can use 0.67x if you want to keep a locked 72Hz, but it will drop a couple of frames during the spider section.

Pavlov VR: "High" anti-aliasing is 4X MSAA. Recommended to use 72Hz due to high CPU usage with more than 16 players, and because some maps are very GPU-heavy.

VRChat: Too CPU-heavy to reach a locked framerate on in most situations. Recommended to use the standard Heavyweight config.

Neos VR: Use 0.7x and VR Performance Toolkit, [same as Propagation VR], but don't expect to hit above 25fps on most situations. This game will melt even 3090s and i9s, it's simply that demanding on your hardware.

Project Wingman: (EDITED after additional research) Recommended to use framerate lock. Game has slowdown when going below 30FPS. Extremely GPU-heavy, deferred renderer. (TAA)

Half-Life: Alyx:

Here's my launch options:

-console -vconsole +vr_fidelity_level_auto 0 +vr_fidelity_level 3 -w 1280 -h 720 (4X MSAA, disables dynamic resolution scaling, sets spectator window to 720p)

Incompatible with ASW60 due to framerate-reliant physics engine. game\bin\win64 is where you put in the FSR patch. game\hlvr\cfg is where you put lowspec.cfg:

r_ssao 0 r_ssr 0

(disables SSAO and SSR to free up some GPU power.)

Also, rename both dxgi.dll files to kernel32.dll while using VR Performance Toolkit. I don't know why, but this fixes the injection not working.

VAIL Closed Beta: Has a nasty performance bug where after a certain duration, the game will start to drop frames. As of 8/8/2022, this duration is roughly about two TDM matches.

Recommended to use FSR 2.0 on Quality mode.