So in just about every game, I have extremely smooth performance with the exception of one thing: any movement of the head left or right, which can occasionally (typically once every 30 seconds or so) cause a very short stutter or freeze. It is almost as if the screen freezes at that location for a split second while my head is still moving. Verticle movement does not seem to do this, or if it does it is extremely rare (unless combined with horizontal turning). Its hard to tell if its a split second of frozen head tracking or if the fps drops to 0 for a split second (audio does
not skip, just the visual), but it is almost certainly tracking as sometimes it looks more like a slight jump than a frame slow. It happens on low end to higher end games with seemingly equal frequency.
It would be a minor annoyance on a screen, but in VR it really break immersion. It is getting very frustrating.
So I have tried a ton of solutions now (here are a few):
- Disabling any MSI afterburner type program
- Re-positioning my 3 sensors (both in actual location and USB slots
- Disabling programs like f.lux
- Searching for and disabling any unnecessary start-up program.
These problems did not exist when I first got the rift.
My system roughly:
Win 10
MS-7917
i7-4790K CPU
1080ti GPU
16gb ram
Comments
I think it's either the USB Controllers in a Win10 Update or the Oculus Firmware Update.
However, Nvidia couldn't be bothered to fix this for over half a year now.
Gigabyte RX Vega 64 x2 | Samsung 960 Evo M.2 500GB | Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB | Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV
Having "the latest Nvidia drivers" is the main cause of the problem...
If I use this now (no ODT) I get similar issues again.
Now I use SS=1 & HMD=1 but with ODT and PD=1.85 to perform well enough without glitches/judders but its not as smooth as it once was in E:D at the edges when rolling for large objects. Happy enough but inside Stations is where it can build up to go very bad if I go any higher so I keep to Shadows High not Ultra.
I don't recommend solely rolling back nor using DDU in Normal Mode as it will leave files behind unless you do access SAFE MODE. Once installing new drivers, reboot again to access the Nvidia Control Panel. If it's still there before a boot then the files were not fully deleted prior!
The machine will take a long time to re-Index the new drivers so be patient and allow it to settle. It has much re-mapping for DLL files to sort out and things will load slower at first!
Gigabyte RX Vega 64 x2 | Samsung 960 Evo M.2 500GB | Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB | Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV
I may try reverting back to PrecisionX16 to get use of my superclock2 KBoost though.