01-25-2018 03:00 AM
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01-28-2018 07:55 PM
01-29-2018 02:23 AM
01-29-2018 05:40 AM
That's annoying. Hey .. is there no way to disable the intel graphics all together in bios?
RedLeader42 said:
Not amazing response from support. I asked them if they could reproduce it and if it was something that could be researched. Their answer, paraphrasing:Your laptop model is not certified as oculus ready. You're probably doing the right thing bypassing the Intel. We appreciate your thorough testing.
Wow. :'(
01-29-2018 05:41 AM
Sharkster-NVR said:
Is that just a standard reply or is your notebook in fact not "Oculus ready", when you run the testing stuff? Your hardware sounds well capable of handling the job (and beyond)?
If that ends up being the case, definitely a step forward. I didn't own my Rift or laptop before Jan 2018, but it appears there is a group of folks who saw the Rift take a performance nosedive in the Nov - Dec 2017 time frame. If the hybrid Intel / NVIDIA is the underlying cause, it would take those folks reporting this to support, and pushing the issue that this is not an unfixable hardware compatibility problem. Now that I've seen how the Rift can perform over the past couple of days, I am not certain it ever ran this well. Memory is fickle.
A bit of background
I bought this system after playing a friends Rift. Played it like 20 minutes and went, "Yeah, well, I have to own one of these." :smile: He owns an MSI laptop just a bit older than mine with an Intel / GTX 1060 hybrid, and runs the 382.05 drivers. It seems I can't run the 382.05 drivers, because the installer says it can't detect a compatible system. I can only install as far back as 384.x. On his MSI laptop with 382.x and a GTX 1060, Robo Recall ran near flawlessly at 90 fps. He's been a help to me working through this and we've communicated back and forth about this. So far it appears he doesn't have the problem I do, but he's not run all the software updates that I have. I'm encouraging him to try an external monitor like I have and see if it improves further. It would be interesting to hear from more folks, but JJCourage
on this thread confirmed that using an external monitor is a very effective workaround.
In my situation I can't describe anything I've seen as "micro-stuttering" it was either "wow-this-is-horrid" or "wow-this-is-nearly-flawless" (angles playing trumpets). I do still have a hiccup now and then, like the first time I pull apart a Robot and it explodes in parts and sparks, but I attribute this to natural loading of resources or whatnot, like LZoltowski suggested above, as it doesn't happen every time. I have tried drivers from 384.x to 390.x and can't discern a difference I could point a finger at. Oculus Client and Steam VR both played equal well or equally bad so far as I could discern.
01-29-2018 05:49 AM
LZoltowski said:That's annoying. Hey .. is there no way to disable the intel graphics all together in bios?
01-29-2018 06:00 AM
01-29-2018 06:48 AM
RedLeader42 said:
Not amazing response from support. I asked them if they could reproduce it and if it was something that could be researched. Their answer, paraphrasing:Your laptop model is not certified as oculus ready. You're probably doing the right thing bypassing the Intel. We appreciate your thorough testing.
01-29-2018 07:12 AM
Sharkster-NVR said:
To my understanding, there's no such thing as an "Oculus Ready Certificate". I guess they simply believe that your notebook didn't pass the "Ready for Rift" compatibility test ... which is obviously plain wrong. To me it sounds like: "Hey, your
hardware doesn't work with Oculus! But that's not our fault!" - which is
BS of course, because the question of who's to blame is not as
interesting as the solution to the problem. I mean... what is "not
certified as Oculus ready" even supposed to mean... or how is it
supposed to help?Statements like that from support staff always make me kinda angry, as
they're just so NOT helpful. Instead of digging the depths of the
internet for weeks to get our (which is in fact THEIR!) VR
hardware to work, we should just return it, take a refund. Buy a Vive...
and say: "K, maybe it's HTC ready certified shiznit?".
01-29-2018 07:36 AM
01-29-2018 07:51 AM