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Ryanality
Honored Contributor
February 26, 2022

PTC v38 Release Megathread

The Public Test Channel (PTC) for Quest and Quest 2 v.38 is starting to roll out today. Let's use his thread for collecting feedback on it. Share your impressions and let us know if you see any issues. Please make sure to also send in bug reports along with posting in this thread you notice anything wrong.

 

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Ryanality
RyanalityAuthor
Honored Contributor
March 10, 2022

Thanks for all of your feedback everyone! V38 is starting to roll out to devices today and I've put up the release notes in the announcement board. 

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New Participant
March 10, 2022

Looking forward to this, thanks for the update

Fatalution
Up and Coming
March 12, 2022

I can report that after updating my Quest OS version to 38.0 from 37.0, the Win11 Link FPS drop bug is back. Moreover, it is now NOT fixable by the console window toggle. I've decided to update the PC software to 38.0 as well to maybe solve this to no avail.

 

Worked just fine on 37.0 across the board. Very sad I can't revert the software back to solve this.
Zephyrus G15 (2021) with 5900HS and 3080. 

PC: 9800X3D / 5090 / Windows 11 Pro Headset: Quest 3 with Link Software: 76.0 PC, 76.0 Quest 3
Participant
March 13, 2022

Windows desktop v38 would be much appreciated. v37 was/is so **bleep** bad.

Honored Contributor
March 14, 2022

ShadowToon  Try opting into the beta test channel on the beta tab of the oculus desktop app.  Takes you to v38 which seems to work well for me.  Worked fine with quest v37 and now v38.

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
Jeffah24
Participant
March 15, 2022

Ok, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with features being REMOVED.  This update removed the battery charge indicator from the menu bar.  I spoke to support and they confirmed that this was intended.  WHY on earth?  WHY would you remove this?  Update 29 removed the controller battery indicators from the menu bar and stuck them on the controllers which we can’t always see, and now with Update 38 the headset battery indicator is removed entirely!  I now have to open the menu bar AND go into settings just to see the battery charge level of my headset. This is asinine!  I have ONE game I play which not only has the most intense graphics of any game I have on the Q2, but it has a watch on your wrist that shows tons of info, including the time, headset battery and controller battery levels. So it cannot possibly be a resource issue.  This is pure stupidity, tbh.  I’m still quite upset that the Go Live (to Facebook) feature was removed when it was the main reason I purchased this headset over all others available on the market.  Make changes?  Go ahead.  Add features?  Please do!  Stop taking away functionality and making this headset less and less appealing to want to use anymore.  Originally we could see the percentages of all batteries on he menu bar, but update 28 decided we don’t get to see that now unless we open settings.  I guess I this is akin to pulling out your cell phone, unlocking it, then having to open the settings app just to see the battery charge level. 

New Participant
March 17, 2022

On update 37, 12hr and 24hr was available. On update 38, it no longer exists.

March 17, 2022

Date in Quick Settings should go to Notification History and saved Events, yup yup, otherwise, go overdose on lava!

New Participant
March 22, 2022

Anybody having issues with this software version showing USB 2 instead of USB 3 in the Oculus software while rifting? Not sure if its the software or something I did but Im scratching my head at this problem. I had USB 3 since I got it 1/2 a year ago and now it's being detected as USB 2. Performance seems unaffected.

Honored Contributor
March 22, 2022

Javis60  I also saw this with my very old cv1 on my office laptop.  I found that just disconnecting its usb PC connector and reconnecting it seemed to fix this.

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 64Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
March 22, 2022

How **bleep** is your schemes?

 

v0.38 or v38.0?

 

Would be nice to have a Latest PTC release download or previous install date, and a Next PTC expected release date after downloading, along with a Next Release download or previous install date, and a Roll Back option for each installed PTCs and Next Release versions, unless your inquiring about PC/Steam/Cyber Punk? Sell Steam Decks in the Store, with preconfigured Air Link support, for Quest 2 headsets. Quest 2/Steam Deck $599.00 or $799.00 separately with no support and a six month backorder line, or watch me pass and rant, your choice.

March 22, 2022

Instead of No updates available, that should always say Update.

New Participant
March 22, 2022

Have problem with v38. When i try to log into Oculus Air Link, i have only black screen. Ill try repair Oculus App, but not working. Is there a way to downgreade to version 37? 

Participant
March 22, 2022

I have the same problem, black screen and when I finally reach the desktop home, it just keeps looping and losing sync with my controllers....