I need some help in trying to figure out what is causing my VR's performance loss. I believe it has something to do with using the VR controls to control other windows when inside a game. 

For example if I use SteamVR to change the controls while in No Man's Sky, the game doesn't pause and is playing in the background. This causes the game to lose more and more frames the more I do this in. 

I also noticed if I use XO to control YouTube videos with the media player, every time I hit "play" the game's FPS dropped like 20%. Do it enough times and my FPS will become unplayable and I need to restart the game.

This sucks because I love using my VR headset for other stuff too like browsing and watching YouTube videos while I play long games like NMS where shit takes hours sometimes.