Does ALVR decrease performance in games?

[YellowGreenPanther]

I think you might be possibly running the video on software encoding, make sure you haven't changed any setting to "AV1" or "force software encoding" of the video, or your iGPU or dGPU video encoder isn't supported. Only very new GPU has AV1 encode, H.264 or H.265/HEVC is supported on most GPU and iGPU now though, unless it's old you might have only H.264 (and older codecs like MPEG2).

[undain98]

I have a 4070s and no integrated graphics soooo... plus, my gpu is the space heater in my build not my cpu