After a week of misery with Oculus & ED, I found a fix!

So I was having more than a few issues with Oculus and ED. It was unplayable. Most of the time I'd have tracking flashes and severe skipping and juddering interspaced with the odd 20 minutes of buttery smoothness... then it all went to pot again. ED was the reason I'd initially splurged out on the 'privileged goggles' and it was looking like I'd simply have to shelve it all until sometime in the distant future when I'd recovered enough to sell another kidney for a GTX1080.... you've got loads of them right?

I've tried most recommended solutions.... VR LOW mode, Nvidia drivers 388.59, Oculus tray tool, changing to a higher priority for ED64 & Oculus server, overclocking the 970. Made little to no difference.

So tonight I'd had enough and did an OS reset then reinstalled Oculus and ED (and nothing else). It only bloody well worked! No stutters, no tracking flash, 90FPS constant and steady all in VR Medium mode.

Happy? I made the wife a cuppa!

NB: all my other VR games before the OS refresh worked without issue, was only ED that ran like a Dad on sports day.
 
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Congratulations! Steady 90fps on a 970? I can't get anywhere near that on my RX480. And I sure as hell can't get anywhere near a new card in this market....

o7
 
I was skeptical of the OP until I read this ---^ :)

The incessant frame skips, loss of tracking etc etc has nothing really to do with FPS.

Currently broken drivers and or windows patches seems more likely.

So after major windows updates, patching has never left a properly stable OS, best to reset or do a full re-install from a fresh build, the MS usb toolk kit downloads a fresher mirror if you need.

Also ED has never liked patching, so if you can download the game from scratch this has also helped.

For instance even before Beyond, I had the occasional frame drop, long pause when landing on a star, or first starting the game.
After completely deleting ED and reinstalling I didn't have a single stutter the last session, granted only had the one session so far.:)

But significant improvement indeed.

So essentially if you have the bandwidth\download capacity, un-install and re-install.
And yes, ED is the one game I keep on my M.2 drive.
 
So I was having more than a few issues with Oculus and ED. It was unplayable. Most of the time I'd have tracking flashes and severe skipping and juddering interspaced with the odd 20 minutes of buttery smoothness... then it all went to pot again. ED was the reason I'd initially splurged out on the 'privileged goggles' and it was looking like I'd simply have to shelve it all until sometime in the distant future when I'd recovered enough to sell another kidney for a GTX1080.... you've got loads of them right?

I've tried most recommended solutions.... VR LOW mode, Nvidia drivers 388.59, Oculus tray tool, changing to a higher priority for ED64 & Oculus server, overclocking the 970. Made little to no difference.

So tonight I'd had enough and did an OS reset then reinstalled Oculus and ED (and nothing else). It only bloody well worked! No stutters, no tracking flash, 90FPS constant and steady all in VR Medium mode.

Happy? I made the wife a cuppa!

NB: all my other VR games before the OS refresh worked without issue, was only ED that ran like a Dad on sports day.

Sorry if I am being thick, but what do you mean by an "OS reset" - did you reinstall Windows?
 
Yes, I used the inbuilt Windows 10 'PC Reset' clearing out all apps and personal files (I keep personal files on a separate drive anyhow).
 
Congratulations! Steady 90fps on a 970? I can't get anywhere near that on my RX480. And I sure as hell can't get anywhere near a new card in this market....

o7

I can't get 90fps on my 1060, and I'm using mostly 'Low' quality. How on earth do you get 90fps on your 970??
 
CPU is surprisingly important for VR. I have a GTX 1070 but was having mediocre VR performance until I upgraded to a Ryzen 7. It's much better now, only the occasional stutter as stuff loads in, haven't bothered to measure if its consistent 90 FPS but it's sure good enough for me.
 
So tonight I'd had enough and did an OS reset then reinstalled Oculus and ED (and nothing else). It only bloody well worked! No stutters, no tracking flash, 90FPS constant and steady all in VR Medium mode.

Woohoo!!

I tend to wipe and rebuild roughly once a year, and have done for years. Always see a performance boost from doing so
 
CPU is surprisingly important for VR. I have a GTX 1070 but was having mediocre VR performance until I upgraded to a Ryzen 7. It's much better now, only the occasional stutter as stuff loads in, haven't bothered to measure if its consistent 90 FPS but it's sure good enough for me.

Indeed.
And having upgraded from a 4790k to an i7 8700k it spends a lot less time in ASW than on the old.
And when spacewarp is triggered there is significantly less artefacting.
So I notice far less if I do drop into 45 fps on the new build than on the old.

But also a newer chipset seems better for vr than older ones.
Also fast RAM is also highly recommended, I therefore chose 16gb of 3200mhz RAM instead of 32GB it slower RAM.

I have yet to see anything need more than 16GB for gaming yet, large piles of VRAM is better.
 
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You might want to check in devices and make sure that you do not have the Oculus cameras set to "disable this to save power" option in properties
 
You might want to check in devices and make sure that you do not have the Oculus cameras set to "disable this to save power" option in properties

Yep that one comes around a lot. For those who put off until the recent forced Creators upgrade know that the upgrade reset power settings in Windows. I had to go in and turn everything off after it updated.
 
Seems there quite a few posters that feel I'm not telling the truth about having my Asus GTX970 hit a constant 90fps while playing ED in VR. That's their issue, I can assure you it does. With a clean install of Win 10, Nvidia 388.59 drivers and clean install of ED 3.0 I get 90FPS. I have the standard VR Medium set from EDProfiler and have the Asus GPU Tweek set to overclock the GTX970 to 101% (a very slight clock overclock). If I set either the HDM to anything greater than 1.0 then the FPS drops dramatically but I don't get any of the previous tracking flashes just the very occasional judder when exiting supercruise near a sun or exit to a station. Switch it all back to VR Medium and SS & HMD to 1 and its perfect.

Don't just fall into the trap that you need to be 'one of those' who need to justify their perceived superiority (easily spotted by their inclusion of a boasting component tag) by having an uber setup costing thousands of £'s to run a VR system... you don't.
 
Seems there quite a few posters that feel I'm not telling the truth about having my Asus GTX970 hit a constant 90fps while playing ED in VR. That's their issue, I can assure you it does. With a clean install of Win 10, Nvidia 388.59 drivers and clean install of ED 3.0 I get 90FPS. I have the standard VR Medium set from EDProfiler and have the Asus GPU Tweek set to overclock the GTX970 to 101% (a very slight clock overclock). If I set either the HDM to anything greater than 1.0 then the FPS drops dramatically but I don't get any of the previous tracking flashes just the very occasional judder when exiting supercruise near a sun or exit to a station. Switch it all back to VR Medium and SS & HMD to 1 and its perfect.

Don't just fall into the trap that you need to be 'one of those' who need to justify their perceived superiority (easily spotted by their inclusion of a boasting component tag) by having an uber setup costing thousands of £'s to run a VR system... you don't.

Very doubtful. 90FPS all of the time including on planet surfaces in bases & while flying in RES - sorry but I doubt it. You may get smooth gameplay thanks to ASW, but a native 90FPS at all times, unlikely
 
Seems there quite a few posters that feel I'm not telling the truth about having my Asus GTX970 hit a constant 90fps while playing ED in VR. That's their issue, I can assure you it does. With a clean install of Win 10, Nvidia 388.59 drivers and clean install of ED 3.0 I get 90FPS. I have the standard VR Medium set from EDProfiler and have the Asus GPU Tweek set to overclock the GTX970 to 101% (a very slight clock overclock). If I set either the HDM to anything greater than 1.0 then the FPS drops dramatically but I don't get any of the previous tracking flashes just the very occasional judder when exiting supercruise near a sun or exit to a station. Switch it all back to VR Medium and SS & HMD to 1 and its perfect.

Just for my own curiosity, and I'm not doubting you, but what software are you using to obtain the FPS reading?
 
I can confirm, Win10 Reset and after that fresh ED install and all problems gone.
Latest Oculus drivers, latest NVidia drivers and ED game is working flawlessly.
 
I can confirm, Win10 Reset and after that fresh ED install and all problems gone.
Latest Oculus drivers, latest NVidia drivers and ED game is working flawlessly.

I too am running the latest Nvidia drivers for my 1080 Ti, and am on the Rift Public Test Channel for Rift Core 2.0, everything is running really great for me.
 
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