After purchasing a third sensor and the Inateck Superspeed USB 3.0 card that's recommended on the Oculus blog for room-scale setup, I've been having trouble getting everything balanced out properly. For reference, my specs are as follows:
MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 overclocked to 3.8GHz
Reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti
8GB of Corsair DDR4 Ram
Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Inateck Superspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Card (Found here https://amazon.com/gp/product/B00B6ZCNGM/ )
I've tried using the default Windows drivers for the card, along with the Fresco Logic drivers, and they both seem to have varying results. Using the default Windows drivers, things work for a while, but then I get the error seen in the first attachment labeled #1, seen here. 
And to fix it, I have to restart my computer. Otherwise, it seemingly works fine with the Windows drivers.
And to fix it, I have to restart my computer. Otherwise, it seemingly works fine with the Windows drivers.
Meanwhile, using the Fresco Logic drivers, once again, things work fine for the most part for a while, and then out of nowhere, anything I have connected to the USB card will disconnect and reconnect with no warning whatsoever. This can easily mess things up if I'm in the middle of a game, and all of a sudden I have no tracking whatsoever.
Connected the sensors to my motherboard seems to work to an extent, but when connecting my Rift to the motherboard over USB, I get crackling audio. Meanwhile, if I connect it to the Inateck card using the Windows drivers, it'll work for a period of time until the card messes up, as described earlier. You can see how this messed with me when playing Lone Echo, as I experienced this last night, in screenshot #2, seen here. 
If I were to connect the Rift to the Inateck card while using the Fresco Logic drivers, I get zero audio whatsoever on the Rift, even with the default audio device being set to Rift Audio, and audio being set to the Rift only, through the Oculus app.
And, if it matters, here are the settings I'm using in Oculus Tray Tool.
If I were to connect the Rift to the Inateck card while using the Fresco Logic drivers, I get zero audio whatsoever on the Rift, even with the default audio device being set to Rift Audio, and audio being set to the Rift only, through the Oculus app.
And, if it matters, here are the settings I'm using in Oculus Tray Tool.
I beg you guys for help, I'm practically at my wits end trying to get all of this to work properly.
Also, another update, I tried playing Lone Echo again with with everything as it *should* be, using power straight from the power supply rather than through a converter for a different kind of cable, and even then, that didn't seem to fix the problem. With my headset and one sensor connected to the Inateck card using a USB 3.0 extension cable, one sensor plugged in through the front of the case through USB 3.0 directly, and one plugged in through the back using the included USB 2.0 extension cable that comes with the standalone Oculus Sensors, this happened.
@ian.born.391 Sadly, I can't exactly spend $80 on a new card right now. I may try to find a card that's cheaper, that has 2 controllers rather than 4, since that would more than likely be cheaper.
@Rob_In_Phoenix , I double checked each time I've tested this, and made sure that USB power management is disabled for ALL USB devices, not just the Inateck card, and it still gives me issues. I do indeed have one connected to the front of my case through USB 3.0, one through the back I/O on my motherboard through a standard 2.0 connection, and one through the Inateck card with a 3.0 extension cable, along with the Rift. You can see they're on separate connections here.
As far as my power supply goes, I have a 650w power supply, which should be plenty for my PC. I'll try connecting them without extension cables later today when I get the chance to, but I'm doubtful it'll make much of a difference. As I said before, I've got an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard (which even states that it's "VR Ready"), so I'm not sure what other user's experiences are with it.
@Rob_In_Phoenix , I double checked each time I've tested this, and made sure that USB power management is disabled for ALL USB devices, not just the Inateck card, and it still gives me issues. I do indeed have one connected to the front of my case through USB 3.0, one through the back I/O on my motherboard through a standard 2.0 connection, and one through the Inateck card with a 3.0 extension cable, along with the Rift. You can see they're on separate connections here.
As far as my power supply goes, I have a 650w power supply, which should be plenty for my PC. I'll try connecting them without extension cables later today when I get the chance to, but I'm doubtful it'll make much of a difference. As I said before, I've got an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard (which even states that it's "VR Ready"), so I'm not sure what other user's experiences are with it.
Are those the only root ports that show up in under the PCI Express Root Complex? It looks to me that both sensors listed are on the same AMD eXtensible USB 3.1 Host Controller.
Here is my root port list. You can see each of my sensors are on a totally different host controller. Motherboard = Intel DX79SI.
You may want to keep in mind the StarTech card that @ian.borg.391 mentioned. I've considered getting this card because I like the elegance of being able to plug all the Oculus devices into a single place rather than scattered all over the case. But right now my system is working fine, and I really don't want to mess up a good thing.
@Rob_In_Phoenix , here's a screenshot of my root ports.
I may consider getting that StarTech card, but I can't exactly spend $80 on a card like that.. one thing I am considering is getting another Inateck card, seeing as it's much cheaper ($30 vs $80), and it'll offer another host controller that I could use. Thoughts?
I may consider getting that StarTech card, but I can't exactly spend $80 on a card like that.. one thing I am considering is getting another Inateck card, seeing as it's much cheaper ($30 vs $80), and it'll offer another host controller that I could use. Thoughts?
