Nothing's worst than an Oculus gone bad when you have friends that you only see a few times a year over to check it out. After months of all the hype of getting together for a weekend of food, drinks, retro gaming and using the Oculus with the Virtuix Omni (I finally received after 4 years), the virtual reality part did not happen.
I was pretty disappointed because this is the first time I have ever encountered an issue that I couldn't solve with the Oculus. Here's what I happened:
- I moved my PC from my office on the second floor to the basement because that's the only place I could put the Omni. I left the 2 sensors I used with that PC in my office to use the Oculus with my other PC when I develop.
- I purchased 2 other sensors and Touch controllers for the basement.
- I went through the process of connecting the sensors and the Touch controllers and they were detected without any issue. I used extension cables for the newly connected sensors and the Oculus.
- When the setup got to the part where you would put on the Oculus, nothing happened. Black screen, amber light.
- I tried a variety of "fixes" from other people having similar issues such as unplugging, restarting, uninstalling/reinstalling, trying different ports, trying it without the extension cables but nothing worked. So far I'm only able to hear the sound from Oculus Home or whatever else I launch but can't see it within the Oculus.
I have yet to try the original sensors or see if I can remove the sensors from the settings to see if having 4 sensors in the settings even if the original 2 are not-in-use/disabled have somehow messed things up. I also haven't looked at the log but I'll try to do that when I get home after work. I just wanted to write this since it was on my mind at work and hope someone can offer any suggestions that worked for them. It seems like a lot of people are having this issue but with different fixes and from what it seems, unknown causes. I had 2 TV's setup and having my friend point out how the older gaming consoles (Nintendo in this case) started with no problem on TV #1 but the future tech is having problems without a quick fix on TV #2 increased my frustration and disappointment.
I hope I'm able to find a fix and hope if it happens again in the future I know EXACTLY what cause it and how to fix it on the spot.
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I know that our issues are likely not connected, but still I'm curious.
"Shut up, Wesley!" - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
http://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1590952750933066
Check it.
There are many others like it, but this is mine.
That didn't work..... it had the same result as my other computer. I hear the audio but nothing else. All of my ports are fine. I have no problem with using any ports on anything other than the Oculus at this port. The whole port issue is rather ridiculous in my opinion.
Tomorrow I'll roll back the Nvidia driver even further than I already have and uninstall/reinstall everything again and run the diagnostic tools to get logs to post if there's any issues.
- Remove all USB components except mouse&keyboard.
- Plug monitor on HDMI and restart.
- Uninstall oculus software (Delete too all the oculus folders)
- Uninstall nVidia drivers whit DDU, just follow the steps and restart. http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
- Install nVidia drivers 376.33 and restart.
- Setup and plug Oculus as usual and restart.
- Plug all USB devices again.
That's work for me, hope help to you, sorry for my bad English.
I'm sick of working on this PC so I'll take a break and move back to my most recent PC Build for the Oculus which shouldn't have any of these issues. The drama continues.....
For example my Rift has a HDMI extention which does not work in the regular HDMI connection of my 980ti but it does work when using DVI to HDMI adapter.
I had a problem before with one of the settings in Steam VR when I was playing around trying to see if I could get HL2 to run in VR. There was a setting that created like an extended virtual desktop display that the VR image was suppose to be sent to. It didn't work with the CV1 though so you ended up with audio but no image. The only way to get the CV1 back as normal again was to go into Devices and Printers and delete this extra display that had been created.
So if you get this issue again, for a possible fix, check your Devices and Printers in the control panel and if there is a display there that doesn't belong, just remove it.
Generally speaking, I've found that if a problem is due to the port ie a displayport or HDMI, then the headset will not work full stop. As in Oculus Home won't even detect it.
@Tquad88 if you still need help or more clarity in the solutions in this thread let me know and I'll be glad to walk you through what worked for me.
I ended up buying a 4k display port to hdmi adaptor which fixed the problem. It had to be a 4k-ready adaptor and not a 2k. So now my rift uses a display port and not the hdmi. Cost was about $10.
https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/53237/work-around-for-black-screen-issue-on-nvidia-gpus/p1
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@cybereality on a PC that I never setup the Rift, I had to roll back to 376.33 for it to work. That PC has a 1070 graphics card. On the other PC that I always used for VR I was actually able to keep the most recent Nvidia driver on there and that has a 980 TI Golden Edition card.
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