Compositor Frame Drops Every Second (Stuttering in Headset)

[OwynC]

Hey Oculus Forums, I recently started getting stuttering in my rift. It happens every second like clockwork and is displayed as dropped compositor frames in the debugger. 

Here's a link to a similar issue.

I have a i5-4460 8GB of ram, a GTX 1070 and Windows 10 64bit. Although the CPU is not up to minimum system spec I haven't had any issues so far and have had my rift since this May. I'm currently running Oculus Home 1.9 and Nvidia Driver 375.70

Any help would be appreciated, I believe the issue may be related to either the recent Oculus 1.9 update or the latest Nvidia driver update.

Edit: I rolled back my drivers to 368.81 and nothing changed. 

Edit2: I completely reset Windows, formatting the drive and removing all software. I reinstalled Oculus Home and a couple VR of games to test. I still got compositor frame drops from the default automatic Windows installed drivers. I then downloaded Geforce Experience and updated all my drivers to the latest. I still get the compositor frame drops. This is probably an issue with oculus home 1.9.

Edit3: I enabled ASW and still get the compositor frame drops.

[cybereality]

I believe this is an Nvidia driver issue, but I thought it was fixed.

[OwynC]

It may be but the frames drop and stutter even when I rolled back to the Nvidia Driver 368.95.

[YoLolo69]

You don't have any "major" program running at the same time? I once had the same issue just due to browser Chrome opened when running my games.

[OwynC]

Nope, everything else is closed. In task manager oculus is the largest and only major resource intensive program. Also I didn't have this issue before updating the Nvidia drivers and oculus home.

[neuro27]

Same issue here! Everything worked wonderfully a few days ago, now it's not working nearly as well

[Techy111]

Try 368.81. That has been by far the most stable driver.

[neuro27]

Techy111 said:

Try 368.81. That has been by far the most stable driver.

Thank you! This helps a little bit in VR Desktop, but not in my other apps it seems.

Is there any way to go back to 1.8?

[Palidore]

Hey guys, so I've been having this problem recently as well, but may have found a solution.

First: Open up Nvidia control panel, go to "Set up stereoscopic 3D," and make sure it's disabled, i.e. uncheck that box, if it isn't already.  Note that this step might not be necessary, but I've read in my online sleuthing that in the past at least, that enabled 3D vision was giving people stuttering.

Second, and what seemed to fix my frame drop problems: Open task manager, scroll down under the Background Processes category, and see if you can find a process with an Nvidia logo called "Stereo Vision Control Panel API Server" or something like that .  End that process, and see if the stuttering issue goes away.  For me, it seemed to instantly stop the application and compositor frame drops that I was seeing on that Oculus performance overlay. 

Really hope this helps guys! I know how aggravating of an issue it is, believe me.  Crossing my fingers that this was the main culprit, and that the issue doesn't pop up again. 😕

EDIT: Aaaaaaand it's back again. Kinda.  I don't know why ending that process stopped the judders momentarily, but sure enough they came back.  Keeping Chrome completely closed seems to help...maybe...but can't say definitively, will have to look at it more when I'm less tired.  Kinda spent on trying to solve this problem tonight.  Anyway I'll report back if I find a more reliable solution.

[SocialAnxiety4M]

was a solution ever found? i'm having the exact problem as OwynC, rolling back drivers didn't help 😧