Strange blurring in Rift

RESOLVED: Many thanks to TorTorden for linking me to the answer. You need to disable Xbox DVR if you've been upgraded to Fall Creators Update. See this post for details.

Rift CV1, 2 week old replacement for my launch headset. GTX 1080, i7 4770k, 64GB Ram, RAID0 SSD - in short plenty powerful. Everything has worked perfectly for 18 months, recently rebuilt my machine for a number of reasons.

Recently I've started getting an odd "blurring" effect after X minutes of play. It's usually about 15-30 minutes before it starts and when it does it's similar to the small glitches that ASW can cause but it's the entire image. At first I thought maybe it was the two displays not staying in sync but it's not, it's the image being sent to the headset. Hold still and all is fine, move at all and it's like being cartoon drunk. What's odd is the fix - if I just turn off HMD 3D and go back to my monitor, then right back to HMD 3D (without restarting Elite) it will correct the issue for 5-15 minutes (sometimes much shorter and some much longer). It will progressively get worse until I have to close Elite, restart the Oculus service, then back into Elite. I then get another 30+ minutes until the cycle starts again.

I can't tie it to any event in game or otherwise and I'm not sure if it's just Elite or not - lately I've only been playing Elite in VR so I haven't yet taken the time to see if it happens in Project Cars 2 or iRacing (my other big VR titles).

Anyone else seen this? Elite specific or not?

~X
 
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Might have had something similar a few times. Like the motion blur effect was going the wrong way or something. Had it after one of the bigger windows updates, not the last one but the one before that, after a system restart it was gone.

When it was there it was also in oculus home.
 
Sounds a bit like the 60fps bug introduced with fall update.
Go to windows settings and disable all possible features regarding the game bar and especielly the dvr function.

this forces the rift to 60fps and it REALLY doesn't like it.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...dness-with-probable-fix?p=6108296#post6108296

it was also a little intermittent on kicking in.
sometimes changing graphics settings might let it get back up, but only for a minute or so.
Then it was back to blurry double vision town.

After disabling the dvr function and other game bar functions I never used, everything is normal and smooth again.

Also make sure you are not on 388.13 drivers, 388.31 should work fine has for me.
 
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Sounds a bit like the 60fps bug introduced with fall update.
Go to windows settings and disable all possible features regarding the game bar and especielly the dvr function.

this forces the rift to 60fps and it REALLY doesn't like it.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...dness-with-probable-fix?p=6108296#post6108296

it was also a little intermittent on kicking in.
sometimes changing graphics settings might let it get back up, but only for a minute or so.
Then it was back to blurry double vision town.

After disabling the dvr function and other game bar functions I never used, everything is normal and smooth again.

Also make sure you are not on 388.13 drivers, 388.31 should work fine has for me.


From 30th Nov Nvidia have released 388.43.

Not updated so don't know if it is good, bad, or ED Wrecking?? Anyone tried it?
 
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From 30th Nov Nvidia have released 388.43.

Not updated so don't know if it is good, bad, or ED Wrecking?? Anyone tried it?

It's fine for me (both VR and 2D) but the Windows start button doesn't work sometimes, so I'm going back to 385.69 for what feels like the 100th time (and even with that driver, my monitor does not go into standby properly). Having recently changed from an AMD card to a 1080, I'm really not impressed with the Nvidia drivers and software.
 
Sounds a bit like the 60fps bug introduced with fall update.
Go to windows settings and disable all possible features regarding the game bar and especielly the dvr function.

this forces the rift to 60fps and it REALLY doesn't like it.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...dness-with-probable-fix?p=6108296#post6108296

it was also a little intermittent on kicking in.
sometimes changing graphics settings might let it get back up, but only for a minute or so.
Then it was back to blurry double vision town.

After disabling the dvr function and other game bar functions I never used, everything is normal and smooth again.

Also make sure you are not on 388.13 drivers, 388.31 should work fine has for me.

Thanks very much for the cross-post and sharing that - so far that seems to have fixed it, meaning turning off Xbox DVR just as the post details. So far so good....

~X
 
Bloody M$..................They certainly have a lot to answer for. Does Trump own any part of M$? This would make some sense of their uncaring attitude?
 
The random stuttering I seem to have got over the past week or so was driving me nuts, stumbled across this thread and since turning the DVR settings off as suggested by Tor, we're back to a smooth running experience. Thanks so much for the effort, and to those that have re-posted this.

:)
 
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