PTC v76 Release Thread

Its available now on ptc Not sure how i feel about the close button location tho...

TomCgcmfc 

Thank you for confirming you also had hand tracking issues. I will file a bug report.

Do you also have the issue where if you turn the Quest 3 off (not sleep), but leaved it plugged into your PC it keeps turning on and off with Windows giving errors regarding the device. This was new for me since 74.

I got my quest with a link cable and it's been working fine for about a month now. Was playing last night, and it updated overnight and now it doesn't even connect via link cable. Everything else seems to work fine, besides the battery not charging past 50%, but my pcvr ability is bricked even tho nothing changed except the update.

Xypheron  I always disconnect my link cable from my Q3 headset before powering off.  I reconnect it before starting up the headset.  I think that’s the best practice.  I’ve done this for a very long time so no way I’m going to change.  I have occasionally put it to sleep and left the link cable connected without any problems.

Link keeps my headset battery at +80% for a very long time.  If I want to top it up I just use my Q3 charger or an external battery.  No way I’d want to use the link cable connected to pc in order to charge it up.  Cheers 

lazercat77 I had this too. the only way it would connect stably was to swap to a USB3 port on a PCIe card.  Try different ports if you haven't already.

Something has certainly changed with the USB3 connectivity in the latest updates.

PenguinInChicago  Wow, PTC v77 already!  Wonder what this is going to include?  I’ve avoided PTC’s for +1 years so I guess I won’t find out until it goes public release.  Good luck to all you brave PTC users!  Cheers mate.

I havent seen anything different tbh

I still want to know what new in V76 let alone V77.. Apart from not being able to remove Horizon Worlds anymore!! Talk about ram something down your throat that NOBODY wants..!! If you want HW to work make it useful ! ie get shops like Amazon and Ikea to have virtual stores to wander round and meet up with friends and family, make online shopping sociable ?! NOT just a bunch of Worlds (rooms really! lets be honest!) that are full of annoying kids. Here's an idea, get SCAN computers of someone like that have a SHOP (please stop calling them worlds because they are NOT worlds) that you can pick and choose computer parts and YOU build a virtual computer that you can BUY for delivery fully assembled ..??  A vast majority of people currently using VR are computer nerds anyway and love tech!! (Yup me included! lol)

Moriarti4  If you want to see an overview of the latest release notes just google meta quest release notes.  You’ll also see a lot of YouTube vids on v76 updates.  Just search YT vids to see these.

I don’t know whether or not meta horizon app can’t be uninstalled anymore.  I’m not a big fan of this and uninstalled it a long time ago.  Both my Q3 and QPro updated to non-PTC v76 yesterday and I haven’t seen it automatically reinstall this.

I guess if it does end up reinstalling I don’t think it’s a big deal.  If you don’t want to use it don’t use it.  The app doesn’t take much storage space (145mb).

Kinda funny that about a year ago, so many users were complaining that their country wasn’t supported yet!

Seems this user forum should be renamed to user complaints forum, lol!  Just kidding mates, cheers.

TomCgcmfc 

Watching videos of other people who think they figured out what the newest features of an OS-Version are is not the same as Release Notes. Release Notes / Changelogs should list ALL the changes, including minor bug fixes and patches, that clearly are not mentioned in those videos. What Moriarti also means is that Meta always releases a new PTC (not the official one) without ANY information about the new version, which makes finding bugs and checking out new features extremely difficult. It doesn't have to be, pretty much every other developer has release notes that you can find the changes in, meta only has these half-assed “press releases”.

The Problem with Horizon Worlds is that these are on the same level as “apps” for meta, which they are not. Yes, you can uninstall Horizon Worlds, which might even help with so many issues regarding hand tracking lost etc. but the worlds still show up in your library, even though you never put them there in the first place.

Yes, Moriarti is known to rant about Meta quite a lot, you know by the ranting style that it's a new post from him on first glance. But he has some valid points that meta should not simply ignore. They really have a horrible record regarding listening to their user base.