Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Continuation of my look into Pico Connect, Pico's new streaming assistant.
This video covers more information on the super resolution feature and covers how you can edit and increase the resolution to steam VR and pico 4 and neo 3 link headsets, which is the comparison people are making between pico connect vs virtual desktop
There is also a way to increase the maximum bitrates allowed, this is still an automatic bitrate, but you can raise the upper limit.
The video explains all and shows you can do this yourself if you don't trust external files, if you know how to use Electron you can repackage the app.asar file yourself to make both the GUI and steam VR apply and reflect changes, keeping the functionality of the slider.
with my solution, this is using notepad++
If you just want to use Stage 2, here is my file I have edited like the video shows, with a 3072 resolution and 400 max bitrate set- you will only need to do stage 2 yourself to set bitrate.
ONLY ultra preset has been changed.
link to app.asar from this video FOR 10.0.24beta ONLY here- this WILL NOT work on any other version:
drive.google.com/file/d/1VnPOCOM3aVaEFM1eXYOVKy-qppMJCOem/view?usp=sharing
post video upload- app.asar FOR 10.0.25beta ONLY- no stage 2 required- 250mb bitrate limit (Please see new guide video) drive.google.com/file/d/18ua90duAF0z9182YmflZ_MlpXrs8Ixid/view?usp=sharing
Text format:
STAGE 1.
go to the install directory of your pico connect, find the resources folder.
right click the app.asar file inside and give your windows user full permissions.
open the file in notepad++
click anywhere on line 8 of the file and press ctrl and F(find) and enable the two directional search check box.
search for "ultra" and click find next, which should bring you to area on line that you can edit the resolution for ultra.
navigate with keyboard across so you can see the values for resolution, change to a resolution of your choice- if planning to use h264, stick with 3072 value.
next, to adjust the maximum values allowed for bitrate, ctrl and F on keyboard to search for bitrate.
go through every result here, using the UP arrow on search (not find next) and make sure every result that has a value pertaining to 150, is changed to a new higher value.
then save the file and exit.
STAGE 2.
go to the app data / roaming location of your windows user and go into the pico connect folder.
edit and save the settings.json to reflect a new higher bitrate target value you want set, this is not the same as what was done in stage 1.
for example, 350 would be fine, if you wanted 400, set more than 400 in stage 1.
MAKE SURE you are not trying to use high bitrates with HEVC, it is unstable
from testing, both 150 HEVC and 250 AVC h246, are stable, anything more introduces issues depending on scene being looked at in headset.
as pico connect is an admin application, any changes made within the pico connect streamer GUI that require a 'save' will write the default 150 bitrate back to settings.json.
if you find steam vr is still stuck on 150bitrate, exit steam vr, while leaving pico connect running, go back to your setings.json and edit and save the bitrate value for ultra, then start steam vr through pico connect in headset.
that's it!
timestamps
00:00 Super Resolution explained
05:15 STAGE 1, app.asar file
16:43 STAGE 2, applying the bitrate changes.
20:58 we're done, final waffle.
Blurb for google
How to increase bitrate on pico connect
how to increase resolution with pico connect
how to raise bitrate with pico connect
how to raise resolution with pico connect
pico connect godlike settings
pico connect vs virtual desktop
pico connect auto bitrate
pico connect super resolution.
pico connect best settings.
pico connect ini file
pcvr pico 4
quest 3 vs pico 4
airlink vs pico connect.
Continuation of my look into Pico Connect, Pico's new streaming assistant.
This video covers more information on the super resolution feature and covers how you can edit and increase the resolution to steam VR and pico 4 and neo 3 link headsets, which is the comparison people are making between pico connect vs virtual desktop
There is also a way to increase the maximum bitrates allowed, this is still an automatic bitrate, but you can raise the upper limit.
The video explains all and shows you can do this yourself if you don't trust external files, if you know how to use Electron you can repackage the app.asar file yourself to make both the GUI and steam VR apply and reflect changes, keeping the functionality of the slider.
with my solution, this is using notepad++
If you just want to use Stage 2, here is my file I have edited like the video shows, with a 3072 resolution and 400 max bitrate set- you will only need to do stage 2 yourself to set bitrate.
ONLY ultra preset has been changed.
link to app.asar from this video FOR 10.0.24beta ONLY here- this WILL NOT work on any other version:
drive.google.com/file/d/1VnPOCOM3aVaEFM1eXYOVKy-qppMJCOem/view?usp=sharing
post video upload- app.asar FOR 10.0.25beta ONLY- no stage 2 required- 250mb bitrate limit (Please see new guide video) drive.google.com/file/d/18ua90duAF0z9182YmflZ_MlpXrs8Ixid/view?usp=sharing
Text format:
STAGE 1.
go to the install directory of your pico connect, find the resources folder.
right click the app.asar file inside and give your windows user full permissions.
open the file in notepad++
click anywhere on line 8 of the file and press ctrl and F(find) and enable the two directional search check box.
search for "ultra" and click find next, which should bring you to area on line that you can edit the resolution for ultra.
navigate with keyboard across so you can see the values for resolution, change to a resolution of your choice- if planning to use h264, stick with 3072 value.
next, to adjust the maximum values allowed for bitrate, ctrl and F on keyboard to search for bitrate.
go through every result here, using the UP arrow on search (not find next) and make sure every result that has a value pertaining to 150, is changed to a new higher value.
then save the file and exit.
STAGE 2.
go to the app data / roaming location of your windows user and go into the pico connect folder.
edit and save the settings.json to reflect a new higher bitrate target value you want set, this is not the same as what was done in stage 1.
for example, 350 would be fine, if you wanted 400, set more than 400 in stage 1.
MAKE SURE you are not trying to use high bitrates with HEVC, it is unstable
from testing, both 150 HEVC and 250 AVC h246, are stable, anything more introduces issues depending on scene being looked at in headset.
as pico connect is an admin application, any changes made within the pico connect streamer GUI that require a 'save' will write the default 150 bitrate back to settings.json.
if you find steam vr is still stuck on 150bitrate, exit steam vr, while leaving pico connect running, go back to your setings.json and edit and save the bitrate value for ultra, then start steam vr through pico connect in headset.
that's it!
timestamps
00:00 Super Resolution explained
05:15 STAGE 1, app.asar file
16:43 STAGE 2, applying the bitrate changes.
20:58 we're done, final waffle.
Blurb for google
How to increase bitrate on pico connect
how to increase resolution with pico connect
how to raise bitrate with pico connect
how to raise resolution with pico connect
pico connect godlike settings
pico connect vs virtual desktop
pico connect auto bitrate
pico connect super resolution.
pico connect best settings.
pico connect ini file
pcvr pico 4
quest 3 vs pico 4
airlink vs pico connect.
