VR Crashing after 10 minutes

Heavytooth · May 1, 2023

Just come back to Elite after a year , playing VR with a Quest 2 and an original Vive , everything is fine no glitching or slowdowns , but it crashes and reboots my computer after around 10-15 minutes , same thing happens with my son as well , we play on different computers. Both computers are decent spec 5800x , RTX 3070, 32gb ram , scratching my head at what the issue is.
All seems to be set up fine no overheating/overclocking etc,using, oopenxr even tried open composite , no difference.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Crank Larson · May 1, 2023

Reboot implies a hardware issue of some kind. I had similar and isolated it to mismatched RAM (only became apparent in extended RAM tests).

pFVD · May 2, 2023

Power?
Are you running both computers at the same time on the same household spur/extension or do you mean you tested using your son's PC in place of yours? I highly doubt this is the issue but might be worth trying to plug one of the PC's to a socket elsewhere or running just 1 PC at a time to see if anything different happens.

Do they crash in 2D/Pancake mode as well? I will say (for me) that I've found the latest Oculus PCVR software update to be a little ... flaky, but it tends to disable my Quest 2 PCVR audio and then crash/reboot the Quest 2 headset rather than the PC. A headset reboot fixes it until the next time I wake the headset up and use PCVR.

Just Elite that has this issue; other PCVR games are fine?

Heavytooth · May 2, 2023

A little more detail...

I use the Quest 2 on my machine , this is the one which reboots after 10 minutes or so , my son uses an original Vive on his machine , and his computer crashes to desktop after the same 10-15 minutes. I'm running on medium VR settings with a 5800x and an RTX3070 using air link from a dedicated router.
Game runs fine in 2D, no issue with any other pcvr games, regularly use vr in Flight Simulator with no problems whatsover. No memory issues or reboots at all , its stricly only when using Elite in VR . Cheked file consistency in Steam and all ok .

It may be coincidence, but the crash seems to happen more often than not when I'm approaching a Coriolis starport .

Any help appreciated...

Sylveria · May 2, 2023

Are you playing together in the same location in game when the crashes occur?

Did you copy the install, or download it separately to each computer? Did you perform a verify on the game files to make sure there's no file corruption?

Could be a network issue (routing in-house) or it could be something file related, etc.

Globusdiablo · May 2, 2023

Not sure it has anything to do with it, but for good measure, try the following:

PSA: Minimize all secondary applications to tray for huge performance boost

I been playing VR for years. For some reason Elite: Dangerous VR performance always seemed flaky. Now I know why. It's called Windows ressource allocation. Every single window/app you have open on your 2D screen heavily impacts Elite: Dangerous VR performance. You can use a small app like fpsVR...

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Heavytooth · May 2, 2023

Sylveria said:
Are you playing together in the same location in game when the crashes occur?

Did you copy the install, or download it separately to each computer? Did you perform a verify on the game files to make sure there's no file corruption?

Could be a network issue (routing in-house) or it could be something file related, etc

No , we play at different times ,and we are in different systems in game , we essentially play independant of each other.

We each have pour own Steam version of the game , I have verified files on steam and all ok.

I'm starting to think it could be file related , plan tonight is a full uninstall/reinstall .

Sylveria · May 2, 2023

Heavytooth said:
No , we play at different times ,and we are in different systems in game , we essentially play independant of each other.

We each have pour own Steam version of the game , I have verified files on steam and all ok.

I'm starting to think it could be file related , plan tonight is a full uninstall/reinstall .

It's sometimes difficult to isolate issues, especially if it's happening independently on both machines.

Alternatively, if you're doing any sort of overclocking on the machines themselves, it can also cause issues like overheating, etc. You may want to check out what's going on in terms of temperatures on the hardware to ensure it might not be the origin before uninstall/reinstalls so you're not spending unnecessary time chasing your tail. Try reverting back to factory defaults and see if it crashes. A lot of people try to squeeze out performance from hardware that really isn't capable of pushing the limits for long and then wonder why there's issues. Can you run a 4K monitor on a GPU that's listed as 4K maximum resolution? Sure, you might be able to- but that doesn't mean you're going to push an 85" TV screen at 144 HZ resolution on an RTX 3060.

I own a Vive Pro 2, and a decent GPU to push it, but running at max res @ 120 HZ it can overheat the HMD and cause serious lag, so I scaled it down and it performs admirably, as an example.