Stability & Performance Steps
In order to remove as many outside causes for bugs and crashes, you must do the following:
Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update
2. Add the Wabbajack folder, Yggdrasil VR destination folder and Skyrim VR folders to your antivirus' exclusions;
- Press
Windows+Ron your keyboard and entersysdm.cpl ,3 - Under the Performance section, press Settings
- Go to the Advanced tab at the top, and at the Virtual memory section press Change...
- Disable Automatically manage paging file size for all drives
- If you have more than one drive, try enabling it for at least one more drive as a backup (make sure it has a decent bit of free space, like 15GB). Set the size to System managed size; if the total size is at least 30GB, you're good, otherwise set a custom size for the drive it's currently on and increase the maximum size to be at least 30GB.
4. Block any outgoing connections from SkyrimVR.exe process in your Windows Firewall. This has been proven to greatly reduce CTD issues due to an odd interaction between the Skyrim VR binary and open external network connections.
Open the Windows Security app, and under Virus and Threat Protection go to Ransomware Protection and make sure Controlled Folder Access is off, like in the image below.
Nvidia:
AMD:
7. If you have any Sonic Suite “tray” applications running in the background of your computer, close them before launching Skyrim VR. It has been known to cause audio issues with Skyrim VR;
These tips apply to all systems
Preferably not your system one, though that is still better than an HDD.
Settings > Gaming > Game Mode
Try switching it on/off to see if it changes your performance much
Settings > System > Display > Graphics
You want this as low as you can muster, within reason and preference - lowering it to 80% of your base HMD should be plenty. Look for signs of blurry text and loss of detail;
You want this as low as you can muster, within reason and preference. Look for signs of blotchiness, visual artifacts and loss of detail;
If after adjusting your Supersampling and bitrate you're still noticing performance issues, see if using a cable helps.
You need to enable Advanced Settings in Steam VR for the option to be available
Settings > VR Performance
This is quite an advanced process, but if nothing else helps and you really want to improve VR performance (especially if you also switched to Windows 11 but noticed a big downgrade in performance, even with all the changes above) I'd recommend switching to Win 10 LTSC. It has way fewer background tasks and in my case it has brought VR performance back from a stuttering mess to buttery smooth in all of my VR games. Results may vary and I'm not responsible if you ended up bricking your PC or losing precious files from this.
If you're playing with an Oculus HMD, you have 4 mutually-exclusive options:
Basically disables Oculus' software outside of basic updates and the like, but you need to reapply it every update and it only works wired as far as I've heard; best paired with VR FPS Stabilizer;
2. Steam Link
This is an alternative to Air Link, it works better in most cases and with some games it even works better than Virtual Desktop from what I've heard. It's also free, so worth trying out; best paired with VR FPS Stabilizer;
the opposite of Oculus Killer (therefore incompatible), it forces Skyrim VR (and other games, though compatibility will vary) to run in Oculus mode, this yields much better performance than Oculus Killer but expect a buggy dash. it is not compatible with the included upscaler mod nor VR FPS Stabilizer (not included, but many people do use it so it's worth mentioning);
less performance improvement, but less of a hassle to set up, you do have to pay for it though.
If you're going through the install process now, you're doing great so far! Let's go on and download the list ‣
