Anyone else having trouble with Virtual Desktop as of late?

aXeL

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A few days ago I let Virtual Desktop update to the latest version ( which ever that was ( it's gone now, I removed it ) ) for use with my Pico 4U for OpenXR ( VDXR ) and OpenComposite. I've been using this combination for a long time and it has been working well. Now, EDO and also MSFS, are having frequent freezes and loss of connection. For a second or so it will go back to desktop view with the VD, "I've lost the connection" music playing and then it will switch back to the game. It's unusable now. I've used both my USB tether with gnirehtet and also used WiFi 6 but the results are the same. I uninstalled VD, went to Git and DL'd VD 1.33.4 which is one of the earlier releases. Installed it and the same result. I've been through the last three nVidia hotfix drivers on my 5090. The temps and voltages are fine. Nothing unusual in my system event logs.

If I switch to a WMR headset and keep using OpenXR + OpenComposite, but without VD, everything works perfectly.

If I switch back to the Pico with Pico Connect instead of VD and use SteamVR, everything works normally again, albeit with a small performance hit and the Steam bloat.

The build is W10
64Gb DDR4
12900K ( stock )
5090 ( stock )
Pico 4 Ultra.

I'm close to just blowing away the whole system build and going to Win11 for lack of other ideas and then snapshotting the system. Except I'll need to do that 'TargetReleaseVersion' tweak to keep it on 23H2 since I like using WMR for testing in scenarios like this.
 

DeckerSolo

DeckerSolo
aXeL said:
A few days ago I let Virtual Desktop update to the latest version ( which ever that was ( it's gone now, I removed it ) ) for use with my Pico 4U for OpenXR ( VDXR ) and OpenComposite. I've been using this combination for a long time and it has been working well. Now, EDO and also MSFS, are having frequent freezes and loss of connection. For a second or so it will go back to desktop view with the VD, "I've lost the connection" music playing and then it will switch back to the game. It's unusable now. I've used both my USB tether with gnirehtet and also used WiFi 6 but the results are the same. I uninstalled VD, went to Git and DL'd VD 1.33.4 which is one of the earlier releases. Installed it and the same result. I've been through the last three nVidia hotfix drivers on my 5090. The temps and voltages are fine. Nothing unusual in my system event logs.

If I switch to a WMR headset and keep using OpenXR + OpenComposite, but without VD, everything works perfectly.

If I switch back to the Pico with Pico Connect instead of VD and use SteamVR, everything works normally again, albeit with a small performance hit and the Steam bloat.

The build is W10
64Gb DDR4
12900K ( stock )
5090 ( stock )
Pico 4 Ultra.

I'm close to just blowing away the whole system build and going to Win11 for lack of other ideas and then snapshotting the system. Except I'll need to do that 'TargetReleaseVersion' tweak to keep it on 23H2 since I like using WMR for testing in scenarios like this.
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Strange you should bring this up, but recently I have had two occasions when ED freezes and I find my PC has lost Internet connection, so I have to restart my PC.
I use Q3 with VD and OpenComposite.
 

aXeL

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Ok, well I've just wiped the system and started with W11 23H2 so I'll see if the driver behaves any better. I'm also going back to VD 1.32.13 because I know that one works. However, lending credence to your observation, I just ran 1.33.4 on my workhorse with the 3090, using WiFi and no problems so far ( although I was just sat in the carrier docking bay since none of the keys are mapped for that PC, ergo not exactly a good test ). The workhorse is on 572.16 but then the 3090 has always been good as gold. I'll be running 572.40 on the gamer though as earlier drivers have bricking abilities on Blackwell.
 
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