Fixes the obnoxious lag occurring with Windows 11 and Oculus once and for all.

Windows 11 introduced an optimization that limits all programs running in the background to 30 fps. As it so happens, the Oculus Server that renders to your headset is such a background process. The nauseating lag you see is caused by the 30 fps limit.

The most widely known solution is to enable the debug console, which opens a window in the server, making it a foreground process and bypassing the optimization.

If your console host is set to Windows Terminal instead of the legacy conhost, this workaround will not work. I found this annoying, since I always had to have the console open, and could not use the Windows Terminal.

I made this tool, which does a similar thing, but much simpler and without the annoying console window. It injects into the Oculus Server process, and shows a message box, preventing the FPS limit.

Download and unpack the zip file from the Releases section, then run the OculusInjector.exe. A new window (message box) should appear in the taskbar with the Oculus logo. Bring it to foreground (unminimize it) and start playing - the lag should be gone. When you're done playing, you can close the box with the Ok button.

Unlike the Oculus debug console, it will not leave any window open on your system after you close the message box.

This program uses the Windows API to inject a custom DLL into the Oculus server process. Your antivirus may detect this as a malicious action - if so, this is a false positive. The release download is a straight build from the source code you can see in this repository, and it only does what I described above.