Meta Quest Link app continually occupying CPU time, Windows 11

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So I’m sat here sweating, wondering why on earth my Windows 11 gaming PC (core i7, 16 Gb, 3060) is acting as a heater, so I look at the monitoring software & my CPU is over 90 degrees C. Look at Task Manager & Meta Link - which I’m not using now & rarely if ever do even use - is sitting around 20 % CPU at CONSTANT use :-/

Obviously, I therefore immediately uninstall that hot pile of sick digital garbage and hey presto, CPU drops down to 50 degrees C and even the GPU temp drops by over 5 degrees C, too.

Meta - what the actual hell is it with your software? WHY is it using ANY of my CPU - let alone an actually very significant portion of it - when I’m not even using it?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY CPU TIME?! You are wearing my hardware out. Your software is basically digital cancer at this point.

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gaving7095Author

Inspiring

UPDATE: So having removed the digital equivalent of a particularly nasty fungal infection which is Meta’s software for Windows, I restart and none of my user accounts have working PINs now, apparently 😓

Furthermore, the reset procedure, which I am funnelled down, doesn’t work because “you need internet for this”. My internet connection is working fine, thanks.

So I restart the machine (again) and thankfully it logs in now without issue. But what in the actual hell, Meta?

ramonmata

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Happened to me too, the The Meta Quest Remote Desktop process was consuming more CPU time than normal making the CPU temps go high....

Waited a few minutes, tried repairing the Oculus Software, Reinstalling but eventually gave up and had to uninstall the Oculus software from my PC

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gaving7095Author

Inspiring

Thanks very much for adding your experience, Ramonmata 👍

Let’s guess how this is going to go - no response from Meta support, so improvement to the software and if either of us bother to raise it as a support ticket, A.I. responds with frankly annoying, boiler plate platitudes and nothing gets done.

Personally, I’m happier not having that digital garbage infecting my PC. I removed all associated apps from my headset, too. I have long-owned & occasionally use the wonderful Virtual Destop, which essentially does the same stuff and more. My main interest in Meta’s version was when it was initially a very lightweight Windows Store app with a promise that it may somehow work like Apple’s headset does with a Mac. Now I’ve no love lost for Apple, but looking back I feel stupid for ever thinking for a moment that that could be the case.

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Grumph

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Same for me. CPU at 99°C until i see an unkillable process of metaquest. i uninstall the link app and now CPU heat is normal.

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Grumph

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update: reinstalling OculusSetup, OVRServer_x64.exe v79.0.1143.381 solves CPU overheat problem for me