Crushing the SteamVR test but Oculus performing poorly

[T3XASAzT3k]

Hello to all, Just got my rift up and running on my i7-6700 / Gtx 1070. Its seemed great on initial play but after about 30 min of play it got very pixalated and starting running poorly. I researched into clarity issues and performance and came upon the debug tool which showed me how poorly my rig was running. I then remember that my steam account had a vr test which I then downloaded and ran. It crushed it. I am at a loss to understand what am I doing wrong. Can a program like MSI afterburning be causing anything ? Does anyone else have from with a i7-6700/1070 running so badly? Thanks again for all the help.

[ThatTechGuy]

is it in a specific game or everything?

[ThatTechGuy]

also can you take a picture of the image in the vr headset so we see what you mean by pixelated

[T3XASAzT3k]

I can't due to being at work currently , but even in home menu screen I am running around 50% performance headroom iow the debug hud

[nalex66]

Having Afterburner running could be causing your problem. It's worth trying without it, since your system should easily handle any VR games.

[T3XASAzT3k]

Home for lunch and deleted Afterburner and in GeForce experience took RoboRecall to lowest setting and when at home game menu ( you vr home location) I am still running at about 40-50% performance headroom according to the debug hud. When in game just standing around i am down to 5-10% performance headroom and with the lowest setting of the game ( according to Geforce experience and put all the way to left to performance and not quality) I am def. lost on where to go next as my graphic card and CPU both seem to be of good quality. Any info would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

[BeastyBaiter]

It isn't a problem with your CPU or GPU. Assuming you have 16GB or more of RAM (I'm sure you do with those specs), you shouldn't be having any issues like that in Robo Recall.  I recommend checking your pixel density setting, nvidia control panel settings (not geforce experience) and finally taking a look at task manager while the game is running. See if something else is eating up all your CPU or putting a heavy load on your HDD/SSD.

Beyond that it starts getting hard to say. I have had problems with MSI afterburner in the past. The same is true of EVGA's Precision XOC. The issues have been so bad that on one occasion I had to physically uninstall the GPU, put in a different one, wipe all the GPU drivers, MSI stuff, EVGA stuff and then start over. Both of them make good hardware, but they suck at programming. It could also be windows doing something weird, like deciding to put your GPU or USB's into low power mode regardless of what you set them to. Hasn't been a problem recently but I have had that in the past too.

[Roaster]

I had that happen with my previous mobo where it was stuck at a very low core voltage and wouldn't ramp up.  I replaced the board to fix it.

[T3XASAzT3k]

I took a look at the task manager and saw that the game it self was using 78-80% of my memory, I only have a 8gb ddr4. might this be the cause?

[BeastyBaiter]

Yeah, very likely. When you run out of physical memory, windows has to constantly shuffle data between the RAM and HDD/SSD. Even the fastest SSD is hundreds of times slower than RAM.

Edit: I should clarify that you may have an additional problem. But between windows and the game, I strongly suspect you are busting that 8GB amount. So you're going to want to fix that regardless.