Weird Menu Glitch in Oculus CV1

danson

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Hi all,

I recently re-entered Elite after a few months away. In that time I believe Windows and Oculus had updated themselves.

I noticed straight away that there was a very weird glitch happening when scrolling through all menus (starport services for example) in the game. The lines of the menus jump around and distort. It's strangely nauseating. This never happened previously. It is happening only within the oculus headset and not on my external screen. I haven't noticed anything like this happening in other games although maybe it is but there's just something about the Elite menus that makes it really obvious.

Here is a video I managed to take filming through the lens of the oculus:

https://youtu.be/TA8DiZahiK0

I've also noticed that if I look at a menu and move my head around a similar thing happens (so it's not limited to just scrolling up and down on the control pad).

I've tried turning off ASW using Oculus Tray Tool. I've tried lowering the graphics levels within Elite. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Elite in Oculus home. Nothing works. Also, like I say, this has only just started happening recently and I had not changed any settings.

Can anyone shed any light on this? I'm tearing my hair out.

Thanks

My graphics card is an AMD RX 480.
 

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Do you monitor the temperature of the RX 480? De-dusted lately? Does it happen straight away or only when you've been playing for a while?
I used to have a 390X and I would notice this happening after I had been playing for a while i.e. once either the headset or the GPU had become hotter. I wouldn't like to say which of these it was but I was fairly sure it was something to do with heat. Presumably you've tried different versions of the graphics driver.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
That could be a result of ASW (the Oculus' "Asynchronous Space Warp" technology which tries to mimick 90fps when your system isn't capable of generating frames at that speed for itself). Try turning it off by pressing Ctrl + NumPad 1 and see if that makes any difference. Once you've done that it might also be worth pressing Ctrl + F and peering through the nose gap at the fps being displayed in the bottom-left corner of your screen. If it's very low then you're going to get nauseous without ASW so you might then need to wind down some of your graphics settings.

Edit: doh! I just re-read the OP, you've already tried turning ASW off ... might still be worth trying the Ctrl + NumPad 1 thing tho' in case Tray Tool didn't work for some reason.
 
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danson

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Hi guys,

It was indeed ASW but for some reason switching it off in Oculus tray tool wasn't working. Ctrl + numapad 1 did the trick. Strange that ASW wasn't affecting the game before. Unless Oculus only turned it on by default in a recent update?

I'll be sure to check my frame rates with it turned off to see what's happening.

Thanks all
 
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