Well, as far as I know, .086 isn’t officially released yet, something between closed and open beta 
So at least from my side, no need to worry and hurry - just wanted to point out the difference in scale 
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American Truck Simulator is actually my favorite benckmark for 8KX…
Disabling HDR is a must! Too many FPS are lost in that function, I can now get 75fps with 2080Ti in small fov, 100% SS, 100% scaling in game, antialiasing on high, but by activating HDR I lose 15/20 fps. ATS on 8KX at 75fps is a dream come true…
You should try with Realistic Graphics Mod as base and finding the brightness, contrast, backlight setting you like
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Since the backlighting can be adjusted in real time it would be very useful to have a hotkey to adjust it directly in game.
I could even remap the not too useful volume up and volume down keys using AutoHotKey
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Disabling HDR is a must!
I tried this morning - at least even with backlight “80” it gets too dull for my taste again… after 20 minutes, I went back activating it. Daylight instantly looked much more vivid, almost as if I was really standing/driving outside.
When checking my Afterburner monitor from the session this morning, I cannot state any major impact on FPS from my side. But I must add, that I prefer image quality and details over FPS anyway - playing with FOV “normal”, 100% SS, PiTool 1.0, all ingame graphics maxed, SMAA “medium”. I have deactivated only SSAO (looks wrong in VR) and DOF.
Furthermore, as far as I was able to understand, the Truck Sim’s rely a lot on the CPU clocks, especially when it comes to traffic and high density areas such as cities. I don’t know anyone getting constantly 75 FPS in that game even with a high-end OC CPU so far - SCS needs to improve the game’s engine for modern CPU’s and especially with regard to VR.
Anyway, I probably could try to increase backlight to “90” or “100” and try deactivating HDR once again.
You should try with Realistic Graphics Mod as base and finding the brightness, contrast, backlight setting you like
Is installed already from the first day 
As well as Grimes season mods and his “darker nights” 
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Certainly not constant, I have 75 fps on the highways, away from the city center, but I do not go below 60 with many buildings and traffic. I don’t have a super CPU, simply an I7 8700K, but for me the bottleneck is the GPU, even though I have all the Jazzycat mods for traffic and some other mods
Try it yourself, it’s easy to create two profiles on PE, with small FOV and without HDR, using fpsVR to measure performance
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Try it yourself, it’s easy to create two profiles on PE, with small FOV and without HDR, using fpsVR to measure performance
Oh, I believe you 
But I could not play in FOV “small” instead of “normal”, I haven’t bought a Pimax with larger FOV’s to go back to something an Index or Reverb G1/2 could provide, too.
At the time being, I already prefered the former Pimax 4K with its 4K-resolution over any Rift or Vive despite the fact I had less FPS 
As well as I prefer HDR, as described, although I’d certainly have to play around with it again.
But I can imagine without any doubt that my setting costs a lot of FPS
I get 75 FPS for a couple of miles in the deserts of Nevada and New Mexico, so I confirm, too, that having 75 FPS is improving immersion also quite a lot!
But when I have to decide between
- 75 FPS, but small FOV and low/medium graphics;
- and better image quality - sharp, vivid, detailled -, but only down to 25-40 FPS in cities and crowded areas,
I’d still and always prefer the 2nd
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Of course I love the biggest FOV too, but fortunately the small FOV is much bigger than Index one, I can see both mirrors of a Peterbilt 567 with the small FOV. Where I do not make concessions instead is the graphics, I do not play low/medium details and I need supersampling and antialiasing to reduce the bad ATS alias. I’m not even a FPS fanatic, but below 40fps is really too much below. The first thing I will when I get a 3080Ti will be to increase the FOV again 
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Also try a counter-intuitive setting by lowering the backlight, not raising it.
currently with:
backlight: 45
brightness: -1
contrast: +3
I get a really blue sky (the sky was my reason for choosing HDR), with a vibrant, but natural, green vegetation
The perception of color is very subjective so I can’t guarantee that you’ll see the same things, but also I thought I had to raise the brightness to have more vivid colors, but the risk is to burn them and lose contrast.
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Okay, understood
I’ll give it a try right now - it’s not that I am not taking any FPS gain I can 
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I just opened a specific ETS and ATS thread in the games section in order not to get too much off-topic here
https://community.openmr.ai/t/euro-american-truck-simulator-from-scs-discussion-optimizations/33130
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Updating pitools seemingly got rid of pimax experience. Is that supposed to happen?
Just reinstall PE would be fine.
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I thought pimax experience was being built in to pitools going forward
Not necessarily. As this would hinder PE updates having to wait on pitool before releasing fixes.
That being said @Alex.liu stated 2.086 was only suppose to be an internal release and likely why no PE bundled with it. He did say the next proper release would be 265.
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If we install this and reinstall PE, do we lose all of our custom imported games again? Last time PE was updated I lost all of my imported settings and had to redo them all.
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Pretty sure that was due to a known change between PE 0.50.0 and 0.60.0.
Profile location changed (among other things).
EDIT: I think they moved from “C:\Users\UserName\AppData\LocalLow\Pimax\PVRHome” to “C:\Users\UserName\AppData\LocalLow\Pimax\Pimax VR Experience”.
EDIT2: It’s announced here:
https://community.openmr.ai/t/important-notes-regarding-pimax-vr-experience-0-60-0-0/32190
There’s more than the change I mentioned…
And same thing applies to Custom Imported games. Move them from:
C:\Users\SweViver\AppData\LocalLow\Pimax\PVRHome\GameImports
To:
C:\Users\SweViver\AppData\LocalLow\Pimax\Pimax VR Experience\GameImports
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Not sure in theory I think @SweViver said there stored in a custom location.
However I would recommend backing up pihome directory just in case.
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Sounds good, will do. Thank you.
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No, I had to reinstall PE after installing the updated Pitool and all of my custom settings were still there 
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for me they all were still working
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