Getting stutter/egg timer display in oculus headset with ED 3.3

Captain744

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Iv got the oculus cv1 which is powered by my Nvidia 2080ti and Intel i7 6700 with windows 10 and latest video driver. I’m experiencing stutter and egg timer displayed in headset for about 1 second when in the warp tunnel at the exact same place ( at about 2 seconds into the journey) every single time I enter the tunnel. I don’t think its performance related as I’m getting very smooth frames. It also happens occasionally when on planet surfaces. Never had this problem with the beta, could it be server related?
 
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DAKTARI

DAKTARI
Stutter and freezing

I'm glad someone else is having this issue. Around the same time, I updated my Nvidia drivers and installed the latest season. I am using the Oculus Rift and wasn't sure it was the game or the new drivers.


I will be in the middle of an intense environment when I get a stutter and a game freezing. I try to wait it out, though it can be unnerving as someone is shooting at me or I'm heading into a wall/rock/iceberg and I wonder if I'm going to come out the other end in one piece.


I can really pin it down to any single cause, it happened once on docking, another when a Python blew up scant meters away from my windshield, and most recently when making a broad turn in a Resource thingie…

I can get out of it with a tap or two on the ESC key, and then resuming the game. Still, scares the out of me...

Regards to all
DAKTARI
Patron Saint of cross eyed Lions
 

mazi

mazi
Same for me with a Radeon RX580, wasn’t before the update, didn’t attend beta testing, didn’t try Oculus update from today either...
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
I got the same thing yesterday, the first time I've played since the update. It got better as I played and after about 10 minutes it was smooth.

Today I did a long session of mining and about 2 hours in I suddenly got hit with awful performance and stuttering. The only thing that helped was dropping my settings down to medium vr. This solved it, I then raised it back up to highvr with a HMD set at 1.5 with no further issues. Neither the CPU or the GPU were being pushed too hard, not sure what happened.
 

WordSmith

WordSmith
Went for a short teat flight in a disposable Cobra yesterday evening and got the egg timer and frozen screen for about 15 seconds while flying round the station.

Seema that the game is currently borked.
 

Paso

Paso
I get that too. If I go into galaxy map and plan a long route it just begins shuttering like crazy and it continues after exiting the galaxy map. Only way to stop it is to restart the game.
After playing so many other games I have to say ED is very poorly optimised for VR. It definitely needs some more work.
 

Gortron

Gortron
I don’t think this is a VR specific issue but it’s horrible when it happens.

There is a thread in the bug reports section about it somewhere and I think people have linked it the a server issue and most reports where by non VR players.
 

Sierra_Hotel

Sierra_Hotel
It's a network issue from what I can gather. I've only had it happen during high-traffic times. If I'm playing late at night it's all smooth sailing with no hang-ups. Seems to only be late afternoon after work when it happens.

*Edit* Didn't see Gortron's post before I hit submit.
 
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[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
Yup, i got that too a handful of times, mostly when switching instances f.e. coming out of the Witchspace tunnel.
I quit the game, relaunced and everything was fine again. Besides these issues the performance in 3.3 is pretty decent for me.

Running the game on Oculus Rift CV1, GeForce GTX1080ti, 4790k i7, 32 Gigs of RAM and latest drivers.
 

Dooguk

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This happened to me late last night (so not peak time here in the UK) a couple of times. All patched up now so will give it ago and report back.
 

Sierra_Hotel

Sierra_Hotel
I'll get one random timer/pause in-game every now and then, but it always comes out of it just fine. The only time I've noticed it doing it every time is when I go to start a session from the main menu. It'll give me the timer before the spinny ship waiting screen.
 

Avago Earo

Banned
Avago Earo
Sierra_Hotel said:
I'll get one random timer/pause in-game every now and then, but it always comes out of it just fine. The only time I've noticed it doing it every time is when I go to start a session from the main menu. It'll give me the timer before the spinny ship waiting screen.
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I've been getting this in Windows Mixed Reality (Lenovo Explorer), hanging on a waiting scene. Also getting quick flashes of another part (artefacts?) of the scene when playing. Sometimes it doesn't happen, other times it starts glitching but 'settles down' after a while, and on occasion the glitching stops after a number of restarts. It could be a network problem, because a month ago my broadband was playing up (BT Openreach engineer had to come out and dig the road up as many people in my block had connection failures/slow downs (took three weeks to get mine back boo hoo)) and the same glitches occurred then. I remember thinking about it at the time but shrugged it off as with my lack of knowledge about these things, I couldn't see a correlation between network performance/poor connection and VR performance.
 
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heretowatch

heretowatch
Same issue here on Oculus and a GTX1070, but from this thread it sounds like all sorts of different hardware combinations are seeing the issue. That makes me feel better, I was thinking something was screwed on my end.
 

He$$eeTant

He$$eeTant
heretowatch said:
Same issue here on Oculus and a GTX1070, but from this thread it sounds like all sorts of different hardware combinations are seeing the issue. That makes me feel better, I was thinking something was screwed on my end.
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Same here since 3.3 random moments all freezes and egg timer is shown both before and after the patch.

I’ve been sitting on my hands trying not to upgrade my pc as I swear it’s powerful enough and that it’s the game that has issues - non of which can be address by shiner new hardware.

I am by no means an expert but it seems to me that 3.3 first launched with a default HMD Quality setting of 1.5 and this improved the crispness but hammered the frame rates. Then amongst other things the patch has lowered the HMD Quality back to 1 but at least it all runs better now.

Once the game is baseline normal understanding where to upgrade your machine will be much easier, for now if you can, and want to, then do, but if your sole aim is improving your VR ED experience then you may well be very disappointed with your efforts.
 
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heretowatch

heretowatch
Hessitant said:
Same here since 3.3 random moments all freezes and egg timer is shown both before and after the patch.

I’ve been sitting on my hands trying not to upgrade my pc as I swear it’s powerful enough and that it’s the game that has issues - non of which can be address by shiner new hardware.

I am by no means an expert but it seems to me that 3.3 first launched with a default HMD Quality setting of 1.5 and this improved the crispness but hammered the frame rates. Then amongst other things the patch has lowered the HMD Quality back to 1 but at least it all runs better now.

Once the game is baseline normal understanding where to upgrade your machine will be much easier, for now if you can, and want to, then do, but if your sole aim is improving your VR ED experience then you may well be very disappointed with your efforts.
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Oh I'm not considering an upgrade yet. I've been happy with my framerates for as long as I've played in VR. With the amount of people reporting this issue, something is clearly wrong with elite and I hope they fix it soon.
 

WordSmith

WordSmith
I think you're right. Before the patch I noticed the egg timer issue didn't occur during off peak playing times. Which points towards a server load issue.

Hopefully this patch has that sorted out,
 
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