Hey everyone,
I’m running into a really annoying ghosting issue in VR when using Lumen.
With baked lighting, everything looks perfectly stable, no ghosting at all.
But as soon as I switch to Lumen, I start getting heavy ghosting / trailing on almost every moving element, especially when turning my head in VR.
What I’m seeing:
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Ghosting appears as a persistent “afterimage” or smearing when moving the headset.
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It’s very noticeable on bright edges, emissive materials, and reflective surfaces.
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When switching back to baked lighting, the issue disappears.
What I’ve tried (no success so far):
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Adjusted every PostProcess setting (exposure, motion blur, AA, bloom, tone mapper, etc).
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Tested all anti-aliasing methods (TAA, TSR, FXAA, no AA).
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Disabled motion blur and temporal upscaling.
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Changed Lumen settings (
r.Lumen.*,r.LumenReflections.*, etc) through console commands. -
Cleaned Derived Data Cache, restarted drivers, even recreated the project — still the same.
Setup:
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GPU: RTX 5090
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VR Headset: Meta Quest 3
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Unreal Engine Version: 5.6.1
I can provide any further information, just let me know.