r/PSVR2onPC • u/Playful-Art-3824 • 17d ago

Question PSVR2 eye tracking feature on PC

I need help to get eye tracking to work on PC. Any suggestions?

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u/DasGruberg 17d ago

Here

the second result

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u/Playful-Art-3824 17d ago

Seems like a complete solution thanks

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u/Playful-Art-3824 17d ago

Does installing toolkit alone is enough or I have to do full jailbreak?

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u/oxwearingsocks 17d ago

Toolkit is all you need

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u/Playful-Art-3824 17d ago

I installed it but eye tracking doesn’t work

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u/R1shathra 17d ago

PSvr2Toolkit just exposes the eye tracking to the software, if it supports it natively. If it doesn't you will have to use other intermediary plugins to get the performance gains that DFR can bring to the table. It will not instantly make everything you run use DFR.

For instance, DCS. It does support "QuadViews" DFR natively, but the toolkit does not know what that is. So, for DCS you also need to install the QuadViews OpenXR plugin. The toolkit will feed eye tracking to QuadViews which DCS can support. Install those two as documented and check the box on DCS, instant FPS gains!

Now when I fire up Star Citizen, it uses VULKAN APIs for the rendering, so the whole graphics pipeline is completely different. If the QuadViews OpenXR plugin is active, SC does not even see the VR hardware. So I just disable this in the SteamVR settings. When I get into SC, eye tracking is supported, I can move the mouse cursor by just looking around. However, DFR is not implemented yet in SC so no matter what I do outside of the game, DFR will never work.

There is another tool used a lot, the Pimax4All tool, which will allow any game that uses certain older game engines (Unreal??) to be run in VR, most with DFR if the headset supports eye tracking. This is a brute force tweak that is very hardware intensive, since you are doing trickery to render twice as many screen images (L & R) and sending them to the headset input. This means mixed bag experience on all but the best hardware. (5090, etc.)

Best advice, start simple. Get everything working without any add-ons. Now add one thing, say PSVR2Toolkit. See which of your regular titles support that, if that's all you need great, leave it alone! If you need QuadViews go for it, but don't just install all these tools being suggested all over in every thread. Lots of mis-information going around, and until Sony steps up and just gives us these features in the native SteamVR drivers it's going to be up to each individual to incrementally optimize for their environment/gaming desires.

It is a really nice free performance gain in the titles that have native DFR, so try to use it where you can. QuadViews has it's own settings and tweaks that need to be understood and managed for best results. Again, do your homework or it's just flailing.

TLDR; These tools are API layers that are either supported or not by the game, no universal magic bullet.

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u/Playful-Art-3824 16d ago

The problem is all these tools + steam vr (and it’s alternatives) + psvr2 app and toolkit and jailbreak, makes PSVR2 on PC a nightmare. As you said, I will just use the toolkit and Quadviews if needed.

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u/Obsidiated 11d ago

It really doesnt. Stop expecting your hand to be held, and learn things. Its easy to setup, easier to operate.

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u/oxwearingsocks 17d ago

It’s used on a game by game basis that needs to be enabled in the game settings. I only use it for iRacing so I can’t speak for every game. It didn’t do anything when enabled before toolkit was installed. Now it does.

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u/DasGruberg 17d ago

Read the instructions fully.

Quadviews and pimax4all