@npol
I find that sometimes when I start out I have stutters but they seem to smooth out after a couple minutes. Maybe the environment is being cached. So if you change settings and go to test them out I would not just start and quit after jitters. Fly around some first.
I am not saying these settings are the best but what I have.
Auto detect oculus is checked, Steam and Steam Vr are not started
980ti OC, 4970k @4.6, 16Gb ram and SSD drive
My Game Settings:
In Nvidia control panel-these setting came from someone tweaking Elite Dangerous
Anisotropic filtering 16x
Antialiasing mode Override any setting
Antialising setting 8x
Antialising transparency off
MFAA on
Power management Prefer max perf
texture filtering on
Negative LOD bias clamp
triple buffering on
Vr pre-rendered frames Use 3d application setting