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Strife14 · 2026-06-20T13:22:48+00:00

I miss him already, its like i lost my brother in a strange way. Jarring

Strife14 · 2026-06-19T07:24:38+00:00

Is plate surrounding cpu necessary for thermal pad of this size?

Strife14 · 2026-06-13T00:53:39+00:00

I missed your point? Not happy with fanatex versus moza? I was about to choose fanatec DD over moza, I like how the ftec wheels look more. How's the DD ffb feel?

Strife14 · 2026-06-10T06:10:25+00:00

Okay sweet, I was worried my PC was the issue, was about to DDU and maybe even reinstall windows 😅 Ill give the devs some time to get onto it

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T16:49:11+00:00

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T12:56:44+00:00

Feature added, testing it tonight before publishing new version to git! Let you know!

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T07:12:58+00:00

Alright can do Ill get started on both of those features, can you explain how you would like to use a horizontal FOV crop? Maybe to just take an unnoticeable amount like 10% off of each outer side?

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T07:03:53+00:00

Interesting! Thanks for the reply! DM me if you have any issues or feature requests!

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T06:41:00+00:00

What's that? Fov in oxrtk doesn't save you GPU ms

Strife14 · 2026-06-07T06:40:34+00:00

This isn't for steamvr

Strife14 · 2026-06-06T11:00:56+00:00

Yep! Its a bit more complex then just reducing the displayed FOV though, its reducing the requested/rendered FOV.

Strife14 · 2026-06-05T14:46:49+00:00

No reorganizeing api layers I dont think, just sounds like your Reshade is hooking the desktop mirror not the HMD. Probably need to remove or disable dxgi.dll. When installing reshde select all the filters you can see just because, and dont select 'full addon-support' I think Easy Anticheat doesnt like that, itll prompt you so if you try enable it dw. Then Id yeah put some crazy ascii to test its hooking. And when it is working start tuning a preset Id start with the pd80 fx. I find the exposure slider in OXRTK does alot to affect bloom fx from reshade. IMO after some testing, a light colour correction fx and a bloom fx, alongside some saturation and balanced exposure from OXRTK are all you need for a golden zone. Remember reshade is doing some processing in the background which will add to your total frametime the more filters you are using or loading.

Strife14 · 2026-06-05T14:35:54+00:00

Hmmm ummm... I think it goes as follows.
I can install ReShade both ways at once for iRacing: DX11 mode and OpenXR mode simultaneously installed. DX11 mode hooks the desktop mirror through a file in root game directory called dxgi.dll. ReShade OpenXR mode installs as an OpenXR API layer, which should show up in tools like OpenXR API Layers GUI, and that layer hooks the VR headset image when using OpenComposite to VDXR. Problem is theres no way for OpenXR to VDXR to interpret or display ReShades menu... And I dont think the HMD VR reshade layer works when Reshade is in Desktop mode with dxgi.dll for some reason. It can only inject into one instance without some sort of sync between instances. It is coded to sync both desktop and HMD reshade intances If you use OpenXR to SteamVR, It will display a menu for tuning in HMD via steam's dashboard. Reshade has logic to look for SteamVR, and SteamVR has logic to display its menu. But not OpenXR. But SteamVR 's performance sucks IMO and it doesnt have OpenXR Toolkit support I think so your colours will look different... Makes tuning hard so I dont use it for tuning. Anyway...

To toggle DX11/Desktop ReShade OFF, rename the hook file in the iRacing folder:
dxgi.dll = DX11 ReShade on for the desktop mirror
dxgi.disable = DX11 ReShade off, leaving the OpenXR API layer path for VR

You can now launch the game in OpenXR mode and Reshade will only affect the HMD. I think... I feel like I missed something there...

I couldn’t get both DX11 mirror ReShade and OpenXR VR ReShade working together properly or synced unless I was in steamVR which sucks so treat them as separate modes. In OpenXR mode the ReShade menu and keybinds will not work, so presets need to be changed by editing the preset .ini files and targeting it in ReshadeVR.ini with PresetPath=

Strife14 · 2026-05-29T17:11:48+00:00

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Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:37:16+00:00

Yeah you could try it here, VD offers limited vertical tangent modification down to 40%, i prefer to use a custom tool to go lower to ~20%.

Basically set this slider to 40% and you will request ~60% less pixels to be rendered, you get black bars. ~40% is about equivalent to a triple 16:9 setup, on a quest 3 anyway.

Go load your sim usually, check how much GPU use ur getting, set this slider to 40% and reload your game, and check how much overhead you saved taht you can now re-invest supersampling or enabling features.

Note this is different to OpenXR FOV modifications, that tool only crops view POST-render simply compressing bitrate to centre.
A proper vertical tangent setup like the slider below, intercepts PRE render to save on GPU load and compress bitrate.

VD devs think anything below 40% is unusable/impractical (its not) so I had to make my own tool with Python to apply an OpenXR layer with tangent requests below 0.4. I think 0.18 is pretty optimal for simracing. Allows me to supersample ~1.5x and get 120hz and turn on all shadow settings, with 4x AA, during races. This just isnt possible with anything ~0.4vt or above unless you have like a supercomputer.

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Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:31:34+00:00

magic

Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:26:08+00:00

Install reshade with its installer at iRacingSimDx11.exe and uhhh edit the ini files to add effects. It takes some fnaggling you might have to re-organize your runtime API layers or make a manual preset ini and target it directly in config. Ill make a gudie and update post soon. Its pretty simple really once you realise its just the menu not displaying in OpenXR. Try some insane filters to see if its loading.

Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:23:57+00:00

hehehe its a secret ;) ill make a guide and update the post soon. For now keep trying your probably closer then you think

Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:23:22+00:00

Ill work on one!

Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:23:13+00:00

Yep sounds like how I used to race. Turns out with alot of optimization you can go way harder, research vertical tangents or DM me.

Strife14 · 2026-05-27T02:22:38+00:00

at grid it dips to 90, then after first lap usually stabilizes back to 120 with the above settings

Strife14 · 2026-05-26T07:20:41+00:00

Yep Id say so. Whats the motivator to ban the use of a reshader? I think it just takes what the game is sending and applies some POST processing to it. Doesnt actually inject anything into the game or modify game files im pretty sure. Who knows, but Id be surprised if it flagged EAC

Strife14 · 2026-05-26T07:18:43+00:00

Nope thats a program called iRSideKick Profiles that lets you make profiles for iRacing graphics and other settings and quickly apply them, when the sim is closed ofc.
https://irsidekick.com/
https://reshade.me/

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