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JudeBaumgartle
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December 8, 2019
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Oculus Link Infinite Loading?

I've been using Quest + Link almost since release and it has been working just fine but now all of a sudden it has stopped working. It says on the oculus client that my Quest is active and ready to go. I put on the headset and enable oculus link. When I do that my screen goes black and then I'm stuck on an infinite loading screen. All I can see are the three moving dots and nothing else. I've tried reinstalling, repairing and restarting the oculus software but nothing has worked. Any help would be great
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    JudeBaumgartleAnswer
    New Participant
    December 24, 2019
    Hey guys, got another update. I finally got it working. The solution to my problem was to reinstall my Nvidia drivers. Hope this helps
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    enigma01
    Inspiring
    December 8, 2019
    Not sure if this is related or not, but I had a similar thing happen a few days ago after Link working fine since using from release.

    I then noticed I had a pending Quest software update (it was the environment update as noticed these were available straight after installing) I’m not sure why or of this actually stopped Link working properly, but as soon as my Quest was updated and rebooted Link has worked again without any problems. 
    DarkWatchX
    New Participant
    December 8, 2019
    I also have the same or similar issue. I bought the quest about a week ago and ordered the ankor cable which many people recommend. On the oculus pc app I am getting a red error message at the top saying: "Oculus has encountered an error. Please restart your computer or contact Oculus Support." Regardless of the error message I have my device connected and active but most of the time it is either stuck on an infinite loop like yours is, or does not even show the 3 dots loading screen. I have tried disabling nvidia overlay like many people suggest. If anyone has any idea please let us know.
      Coolcat9950
      New Participant
      September 23, 2021

      hey, im having this exact issue, did you ever find a fix ?

      JudeBaumgartleAuthor
      New Participant
      December 22, 2019

      So update. I have reinstalled Oculus software on my computer, factory reset my oculus quest, bought a new cable and I still am having issues with infinite loading. I have no clue why any of this is happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated
        viniciusguitto
        New Participant
        December 23, 2019
        Having the same problem here. Today i updated and after that it worked the first time. Now im trying to but the loading circles still there all the time
          JudeBaumgartleAuthorAnswer
          New Participant
          December 24, 2019
          Hey guys, got another update. I finally got it working. The solution to my problem was to reinstall my Nvidia drivers. Hope this helps
            bigj626
            New Participant
            September 12, 2021

            did this and everything else but cant find anything that will work

            milovr
            Participant
            January 29, 2020
            I have the problem where the white dots ifinitely load aswell nothing works
              timothyjanatkins
              Participant
              December 22, 2022

              Did you ever solve this? im having the same problems now, ive tried EVERYTHING it feels like. Im chatting with support right now.

              Anonymous
              January 30, 2020
              Same issue and support basically told me they dont know what is causing this. smh
                Eastcoast78
                Participant
                January 31, 2020
                I have been struggling to get the link to work with the anker cable. I disabled my gforce experience after reading it here and all of a sudden link works like a champ.Very weird that it would be a fix for me. Some of the things i did was use a app i have for my motherboard asus b450f gaming, and friend suggested using it to see if there were any chipset drivers i may need. Sure enough i needed 3  updates. Got those installed, and still the same, i to would have the loading orbs, and a steam vr error. I was lost on what to do fora fix, even though i knew it was beta, guys were still getting it to work. Also what about the power plan your pc is on? I went in and changed the power settings for the usb. But the turning off shadow play was the trick for me..weird
                  TheScruffinator
                  New Participant
                  February 5, 2020
                  I just got the party link 10 ft and it all works until the infinite loading screen, been looking forward to playing Boneworks since April and a response would be helpful. The second I enable link, hit deny on the access files popup, then it brings me to the three white dots.
                  justoh
                  New Participant
                  September 14, 2022

                  have you tried accessing files

                  AshleyZX3
                  AshleyZX3
                  New Participant
                  November 21, 2021

                  HEY! We had the same issue - Hubby's solution was to disable the integrated GPU if your system has this. DID THE TRICK after trying EVERYTHING else. 

                    billtheshark
                    New Participant
                    January 2, 2022

                    I attempted to solve this issue it worked but unfortunately it also made my game lag extremely bad, I tried a lot of things to fix it and none of them worked, does anybody have a clue on how to fix this problem?

                    -Gilbert

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