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As mentioned (on About KeyVR), running KeyVR requires following:OSWindows 7 / Windows 10GPURecent Nvidia or AMD graphics card (Nvidia GTX 1080 or AMD Vega 64 recommended)HMD

Oculus, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality

On this page you can find tips on how to make KeyVR work with your hardware.

On this page:

Table of Contents

GPU

Making

Nvidia

NVIDIA the preferred graphics card for KeyVR

Some

PC's

PCs have several graphics cards - most

noticably

noticeably, laptops with both an integrated

intel card

and

an nvidia

a dedicated GPU.

An nvidia

A dedicated NVIDIA GPU can be made the preferred graphics card for KeyVR

like thisGo to the Program Settings tab

as follows:

  • Right-click the Desktop and select

Nvidia Control Panel
  • Go to "Manage 3D settings"
    • Display Settings.

    • Scroll to the bottom and click on Graphic Settings.

    • Click Browse, find the KeyVR.exe and click Add.

    • Select KeyVR from the

    drop-down
    • If KeyVR is not available in the drop-down, Click Add and and point to the KeyVR.exe
  • Select your NVidia graphics card under "preferred graphics processor"
  • Click "Apply" and restart KeyVR
  • HMD

    Oculus Rift - enable unknown resources

    If you use Oculus Rift, you may need to enter the Oculus Settings and enable "unknown Sources", in order to run KeyVR.

    • Launch the Oculus application.
    • Go to the Settings menu.
    • Go to the General tab.
    • Enable Unknown Sources.

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    • list and click on Options.

    • Select High Performance and click Save.

    Improving performance with AMD graphics cards

    AMD graphics cards will by default match the FPS of the monitor, which may force the headset to run at a lower FPS than desirable. To make the graphics card match the headset’s maximum FPS or exceed it:

    • Right-click on desktop and select the AMD Radeon Settings

    • Go to the "Gaming" Tab

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    • Click "Add" in the upper right corner

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    • Browse to the KeyVR installation folder and ad the KeyVR.exe - Usually located at in one of the following locations:

      • C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\KeyVR\bin\KeyVR.exe

      • C:\Program Files\KeyVR\bin\KeyVR.exe

    • After adding the applications Profile in the AMD Radon Settings, edit the KeyVR Profile

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    • Set "Wait For vertical Refresh" to "Always Off"

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    • Restart KeyVR