New Oculus Owner - First impressions
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My main problems were although my Z170 board has all gamer spec USB 3 and the power boost option with dedicated power to USB, it kept disconnecting my Rift receivers connection for a split second randomly. This causes the game to bug out, meaning you need to close it or in the worst case combat log to get it back.
Having bought the USB 3 card specified by Oculus support, I can say my experience has improved so much.
cant believe the fix to months of problems was a £15 card.
My PC is high spec but as the graphics card is only a top end GTX970 apparently the game shouldn't play with ultra setting, but it does, happily.
The only slow downs I get are instance related to other players, and once when there were about 20 NPC ships with me.
Having bought the USB 3 card specified by Oculus support, I can say my experience has improved so much.
cant believe the fix to months of problems was a £15 card.
My PC is high spec but as the graphics card is only a top end GTX970 apparently the game shouldn't play with ultra setting, but it does, happily.
The only slow downs I get are instance related to other players, and once when there were about 20 NPC ships with me.
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Like a lot of other users tried this with no improvement, for the first hour or so I thought I'd cracked it.
It appears that although the board manufacturer states dedicated voltage levels to the USB they eaither have thier own board side power control that's independent of the OS,or they just lied, or maybe the Rifts really sensitive.
Rift is definitely more picky with usb. It doesn't like certain usb manufacturers (probably lower quality drivers and such). Certain extender cables don't work and misidentify. Powered hubs are not recommended. When I first installed the Rift on an earlier build that only had usb 2, it work fine, ironically. Both it and my new rig are on Gigabyte boards and neither has given me grief. They use Intel 2 and 3.0 and ASMedia 3.1 controllers.
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The Rift uses a crap-ton of bandwidth on the USB bus. The thing to keep in mind is that usually you have 4 USB ports per controller, and the controllers can get saturated, or not supply enough power to all devices simultaneously, or both. Don't plug in the HMD and sensors next to each other, unless you have a card that has independent controllers for each port. Those cards usually start around $80 or so. It's a good investment if you use a Rift.
Some of the newer USB controllers are more sensitive to saturation problems than before. I ran into this when I built my new computer this spring. It had more trouble with tracking issues, USB devices "falling off" (as if they were unplugged), etc, than with my older computer. Oculus tech support didn't even think to suggest it as a problem when I opened a ticket with them. Getting a multi-controller USB card solved all of my issues, 100%.
If you're having tracking issues or other USB problems, spread out the USB plugs, and make sure they're on separate controllers.
Some of the newer USB controllers are more sensitive to saturation problems than before. I ran into this when I built my new computer this spring. It had more trouble with tracking issues, USB devices "falling off" (as if they were unplugged), etc, than with my older computer. Oculus tech support didn't even think to suggest it as a problem when I opened a ticket with them. Getting a multi-controller USB card solved all of my issues, 100%.
If you're having tracking issues or other USB problems, spread out the USB plugs, and make sure they're on separate controllers.