Positional tracking corruption - only me ?

Lirezh · Jan 7, 2015

Since a while I have a regular positional tracking "corruption".
This happens once every few minutes, then my head usually moves down by "20cm" and is about on breast level.
After a while it happens again and my head is at belly level.

My camera is stable(!) on a tripod and has a great view from a bit above my head 1.5meters infront of me, I tried a few positions without change.

What I wonder: Am I the only one with this issue ? It only happens on ED so far.
It's quite anoying, I would like to get it solved.

[VR] Mad Mike · Jan 7, 2015

Me too. A minor pain but I now know where f12 is blindfold

Phier · Jan 7, 2015

I get it now and then. I have a voice command for f12 "center screen".

mappy24 · Jan 7, 2015

This happens to me fairly frequently, it's annoying by easy enough to hit F12.

Even more annoying is the game minimising itself 2 or 3 times every play session, I have to keep Alt-Tabbing back to the game.

Ref Minor · Jan 7, 2015

I have a button on my throttle bound to reset position, I use it very 30 minutes or so.

Lirezh · Jan 8, 2015

Ah glad to hear it's a bug in ED.
I almost thought it is an issue on my end, drivers or hardware.

Strange that this happens, I wonder what causes it. It always seems to be a movement DOWN but a few inches.
Never happened to me before.

P.S.
If you have a problem with minimizing, make sure you do have the game on FULLSCREEN.
The VR experience was horrible in borderless mode compared to fullscreen. I tried it a few times and always the same.
It's a big difference on my PC. (I guess some OC features fail if it's not fullscreen)

grodenglaive · Jan 8, 2015

used to happen sometimes in beta, but I haven't experienced it recently. I wonder why it just affects some.

mappy24 · Jan 8, 2015

Lirezh said:
Ah glad to hear it's a bug in ED.
If you have a problem with minimizing, make sure you do have the game on FULLSCREEN.

I am in fullscreen

harakan · Jan 9, 2015

I've been seeing both issues also. However, I've also had the positional glitch outside of ED (in Virtual Desktop and another Rift demo I think), so I suspect at least that and possibly both issues might be due to the Oculus 0.4.4 runtime rather than ED itself. The loss-of-focus problem is the worst as it locks out controls, and I need to alt-tab away and back to Elite to reactivate them - which is not good when it happens in hyperspace before you throttle down (unless you like barbecued Cobra).