Windows 10: Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience in Windows 10

How to: Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience in Windows 10

How to Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience in Windows 10


Mixed reality blends real-world and virtual content into hybrid environments where physical and digital objects coexist and interact.

The Experience options setting gives you the ability to change the Windows Mixed Reality performance settings for your headset display. This enables you to choose the best possible experience for your hardware configuration across a range of content. The 90Hz experience is available to all systems, but you might want to try out Automatic first, to see which setting you prefer.

If you choose Automatic, Windows Mixed Reality will determine and choose the best refresh rate experience for your PC's hardware configuration. For most people, this is the best choice to start with.

If you choose 60Hz, the refresh rate of the headset display gets set to 60Hz, and some mixed reality features will be turned off, such as video capture and preview in Mixed Reality Portal.

If you choose 90Hz, the refresh rate of the headset display gets set to 90Hz, and some experiences and PC configurations might not run as well if your PC doesn't meet requirements.

This tutorial will show how to change the refresh rate of your headset display for the best Windows Mixed Reality experience on your Windows 10 PC.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to change the Windows Mixed Reality experience options (performance settings).

*Warning Making changes to the experience options might restart Windows Mixed Reality if currently running.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience in Settings
• Option Two: Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience in Settings
1. Open Mixed reality icon.

2. Click/tap on Headset display on the left side, and click/tap on the Change button under Experience options on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3. Select Automatic, 60Hz, or 90Hz in the drop down list for the experience you want, and click/tap on Save. (see screenshots below)

*note Automatic is the default setting.





4. You can now close Settings if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Change Refresh Rate for Mixed Reality Headset Experience using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Holographic\DisplayThrottling

Enabled DWORD

<delete> = Automatic
0 = 90Hz
1 = 60Hz


1. Click/tap on the Download button below for the experience you want.
Change_Windows_Mixed_Reality_experience_options_to_Automatic.reg

*note This is the default setting.

Download

OR

Change_Windows_Mixed_Reality_experience_options_to_60Hz.reg

Download

OR

Change_Windows_Mixed_Reality_experience_options_to_90Hz.reg

Download

2. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

3. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

4. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

5. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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• How to Set Up Windows Mixed Reality Headset in Windows 10
• How to Uninstall and Reset Windows Mixed Reality in Windows 10
• How to Check if your PC supports Windows Mixed Reality in Windows 10
• How to Adjust Mixed Reality Visual Quality for Headset Display in Windows 10
• How to Change Desktop and Windows Mixed Reality Input Switching in Windows 10
• How to See Mixed Reality Headset Resolution in Windows 10

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Mixed Reality Portal not loading

We appreciate your response. For now, the Mixed Reality Portal is only available with the Windows Creators Update for Windows Insider. In order to ensure which Windows build you have, you can follow these steps:

• Windows + R.
• Type winver and press Enter.

Once you've determined your build and have successfully installed the Windows 10 Creators Update, you may experience the new feautures offered by the update.

The Mixed Reality Portal may be greyed out because you havn't attached the immersive headset yet. Nevertheless, you can test mixed reality apps on your PC without a Windows Mixed Reality immersive headset by using the
Windows Mixed Reality simulator.

If you need further assistance, let us know.

 

Mixed Reality adjustments

Hi Chris,

Follow the steps below and check if that helps.

Open the Mixed reality portal and tap on the ellipses (three dots) at the left hand bottom corner.

Press Settings and then click on headset display under Mixed Reality.

Click on change under Experience options.

Under the drop down options choose 60Hz and save it.

Restart the headset.

 

Mixed Reality Headset not recognized...

Hi Leo,

Reinstalling Windows 10, installing the latest updates for Windows and drivers should resolve most issues experienced on Windows.

Since your PC couldn't make the headset work even after reinstalling Windows 10, it is possible that there is something on your hardware that won't make the headset work.

In the meantime, you may refer to the Windows Mixed Reality: Enthusiast's Guide for
troubleshooting steps that may possibly resolve the issue, or you may use your headset
using your laptop.

Let me know if you have further queries.

Regards.

 

Windows Mixed Reality HP Disconnects Upon Visor Lift

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand the difficulties you are facing with the HP Windows Mixed Reality device and we appreciate your effort for providing the information on the issue. In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to
the questions below.

• What is the make and model of the PC?
  
• What is the model number of the Windows Mixed Reality HP device?
  
• Did you check the Windows Mixed Reality
  HP on a different computer?
  
• Are you aware of any changes in the PC prior to this issue?

However, we would suggest you to perform these methods and check if the issue persists.

Method 1: Troubleshoot
Mixed Reality headset displays

We would suggest you to perform the steps as referred under Mixed Reality headset display in this article:
Troubleshooting Windows Mixed Reality.

Method 2: New user account

This issue may be due to a profile corruption. Hence, in order to eliminate possibilities, we would suggest you to create a new user account and check. Follow the steps from the article

Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10 to create a new user account.

We await your response.

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Unable to change camera in mixed reality viewer

Hi Danno,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I appreciate the request you are looking for, but currently you cannot connect a Windows Mixed Reality headset to a capture card because the Mixed Reality Portal doesn't see the headset, so you can't capture and stream this way.



I suggest you to post a feedback in Feedback Hub
for the same. Our developers are collating suggestions for the improvement of your experience in using Windows Mixed Reality.