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therealcarlos
Inspiring
June 2, 2026
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Quest link cable disconecting too often

  • June 2, 2026
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Hi,

I've been unsing quest link for years... I have even 2 headsets (quest 2) and 2 cables.
For the last year I was using Virtual Desktop what has made the often problematic process of conecting with my PC way smoother...
But it requires 5G in addition to the cable. I'm in a room with no 5G so I started using again quest link through cable. It worked well for a while but since last updates about 2-3 weeks ago, I'm having disconections.
-The screen freezes with jagged borders and I lose the conection with the PC. 

-In the past, I could sometimes at least re-conect to the PC and save the game situation... however now either the screen becomes pitch black or simply cannot connect again...

I wonder if other users are having this issue. I never trusted quest link very much... 

BTW: I even moved the Desktop to an area with 5G to test this issue. Quest link got broken but with Virtual Desktop I could play without issues.

 

    Best answer by therealcarlos

    I've installed nVIDIA 577,00 drivers. I have those because I knew with UE it was a mess after that. A mess nVIDIA seems they don't care about.
    I've been playing Arizona Sunshine Remake PC for more than an hour and I stopped because I had other things to do. No disconections.
    Tomorrow I'll try Cyberpunk and see what happens

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    Choleni
    Choleni
    Honored Contributor
    June 2, 2026

    Hi the_real_carlos​ 🙂

    Have a look at this threads:

    Meta Link freezes after a few seconds | Meta Community Forums - 1368382

    Link connection get freezed | Meta Community Forums - 1374205

    Link (cable) loses connection during game | Meta Community Forums - 1369848

    Quest 3 Freezes during Gameplay | Meta Community Forums - 1369813

    link showing frozen image on quest but fine and working on monitor. | Meta Community Forums - 1370369

     

    If your link app is still on v85, enabling PTC - it'll give you v201...... - might help too.

      therealcarlosAuthor
      Inspiring
      June 2, 2026

      Thanks so much. I'll try in the next days and report if it works. 

        Choleni
        Choleni
        Honored Contributor
        June 2, 2026

        the_real_carlos​  If you enable PTC, do that only in the link app, not in the phone app. The phone app enables PTC for the headset.

          therealcarlosAuthor
          Inspiring
          June 5, 2026

          Ok so enabling PTC + new nVidia drivers 610.47 does NOT work...
          I just did a stress test: Play with VORPX Cyberpunk 2077... (out of the box didn't look right) but I could play for about 30 minutes then link got broken again...
          --ok so I did restarted everything....
          Then I did same than yesterday: Arizona Sunshine Horde mode for about 25 minutes and it got broken again.


          Later I will try different nVIDIA drivers as this seems to be a hot topic acording to other threads.

           

            therealcarlosAuthorAnswer
            Inspiring
            June 5, 2026

            I've installed nVIDIA 577,00 drivers. I have those because I knew with UE it was a mess after that. A mess nVIDIA seems they don't care about.
            I've been playing Arizona Sunshine Remake PC for more than an hour and I stopped because I had other things to do. No disconections.
            Tomorrow I'll try Cyberpunk and see what happens

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