Fov Changes

So I've been trying to get old style space sims to run in VR for quite a bit now without much success. Until now, Wing Commander Saga is the only one that I've been able to work properly and it looks great. I'm using VorpX drivers to work in VR, which is does fairly well. However I'm running into one minor issue that has to do with FOV (I think).

So most of the game runs great with the exception that it's pretty hard to read the information displayed on the sides of the screen. Of which there's quite a lot, none of it’s absolutely necessary but it would help to be able to see which missile type is selected.

Now I’ve tried changing the FOV using the CMDline_FSO.CFG, but that doesn’t seem to change the in game FOV at all. I’ve tried values that are more than 10 times the default value in the file but everything looks the same. Is there some other setting that I should change, or another method of forcing another FOV?