So today I dusted off my Oculus Rift to start enjoying Elite in VR again. When I last used it, about a year and a half ago, it worked flawlessly. No issues with stuttering or hitching. Once I found the sweet spot for graphics settings it was a joy to use.
Today, I'm left frustrated and scratching my head after several hours of trying to troubleshoot a stutter/hitching problem. I even threw my arms up in defeat and deleted the Oculus software I was so mad. I'm cooled off now and I wanted to see if anyone here might have seen something similar to what I'm experiencing.
I have this constant stutter, or hitch or whatever..almost like a slight pause or a tick, about every 4 to 5 seconds of gameplay. It took me a while to realize that it was a constant issue with pretty consistent timing. It was actually the holographic Thargoid bobblehead that gave it away. Every 4-5 secounds, on the dot, the movement of the bobblehead would slightly pause or stutter. When sitting still in my ship it's easy to miss, but when I'm flying around it translates into a huge stutter ever 4-5 seconds. The game is unplayable in VR because of this. Outside of VR it runs fine.
It does not matter what graphical settings I have the game at. I tried it on the highest and lowest settings, different refresh rates and even with the HMD quality turned down to 0.50 which made the game look like a mess. The tick is still there regardless. I deleted and reinstalled the game, made sure the Oculus hardware and software were up to date, made sure that Microsoft game mode was disabled...makes no difference.
My PC has a RTX2080, Ryzen 5 @ 4.0 GHz, 16 GB DDR4 @ 3200 MHz. Same hardware I used a year and a half ago, no hardware changes. Does anyone have any idea on what I can try next, or has anyone ever seen something similar to this?
Today, I'm left frustrated and scratching my head after several hours of trying to troubleshoot a stutter/hitching problem. I even threw my arms up in defeat and deleted the Oculus software I was so mad. I'm cooled off now and I wanted to see if anyone here might have seen something similar to what I'm experiencing.
I have this constant stutter, or hitch or whatever..almost like a slight pause or a tick, about every 4 to 5 seconds of gameplay. It took me a while to realize that it was a constant issue with pretty consistent timing. It was actually the holographic Thargoid bobblehead that gave it away. Every 4-5 secounds, on the dot, the movement of the bobblehead would slightly pause or stutter. When sitting still in my ship it's easy to miss, but when I'm flying around it translates into a huge stutter ever 4-5 seconds. The game is unplayable in VR because of this. Outside of VR it runs fine.
It does not matter what graphical settings I have the game at. I tried it on the highest and lowest settings, different refresh rates and even with the HMD quality turned down to 0.50 which made the game look like a mess. The tick is still there regardless. I deleted and reinstalled the game, made sure the Oculus hardware and software were up to date, made sure that Microsoft game mode was disabled...makes no difference.
My PC has a RTX2080, Ryzen 5 @ 4.0 GHz, 16 GB DDR4 @ 3200 MHz. Same hardware I used a year and a half ago, no hardware changes. Does anyone have any idea on what I can try next, or has anyone ever seen something similar to this?
