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Unbearable lag when pausing a steam VR game on Quest 2 (Link)

woervi
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I got my Quest 2 recently and wanted to play beatsaber, so i bought it on steam. Steam Vr , although buggy with other games too, hasn’t been too bad with beatsaber since i got it. However recently whenever i tried to quit a song (which you have to do by pressing the 3 lines leading to the inevitable steam Vr game pop up), once quitting out of the steam VR menu pop up it lags out my game completley- it runs at like 10fps with it barley rendering a 360 view- meaning that when i turn around it renders in the space as black till it renders in seconds later. At first when i got this issue, i would hop in the steam vr game pop up multiple times thinking of it as only a glitch and it happened to fix itself, this would also happen barley from time to time. However when playing today it happened every time i clicked pause and couldn’t even get it to fix itself after like 10 minutes of clicking on and off of the pause menu- the only way i could fix the issue was through restarting and even then after playing for a little bit it crashed my game and steam be also crashed so i stopped playing. It doesn’t make any sense why it’s getting “worse” when i used the same 3.0 usb c to usb link cable, as well as having a perfectly fine pc to run it with- i5-9400k w/ rtx 2060 w/ 16GB ram . Furthermore, this happened to happen off the bat with a different game- pokerstar vr, the same rendering issue would happen when launching it off steam Vr but this would happen from startup. At first I thought it was the new hardrive i got, but it had nothing to do with it. I have also reinstalled the oculus program and steam vr before -not related to this issue- so it wouldn’t make sense for there to be faulty files - in which case would any of this be fixed from reinstalling steam VR or is it just buggy across all games?

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Alperen169
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Same here

Simply_Reaction
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the exact same thing here, on the latest NVIDIA drivers with a 3060ti and 16gb of ram game has been fine running in the past only recently have I encountered this annoying issue.

RomanBaikov
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I have same issue

Hello there, @RomanBaikov ! Thanks for reaching out to the community with your question/issue! There are a few things you should verify and/or keep in mind when using Steam VR on your Quest devices:

 

  • Make sure you are meeting or exceeding the minimum specifications required for this on your PC:
    • OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
    • Video Memory: 4 GB VRAM
  • Make sure you are launching your apps from within Steam VR and not Steam, you will have far greater success
  • Make sure you're using a good Link cable, or that you've optimized your Wi-Fi connection if using AirLink
  • Make sure you are not using any adapters or extenders when using the Link cable

 

Hitting those points will make sure you're set well for success with Steam VR, but if you are still seeing some issues you might want to reach out to Steam Support for any additional steps you might take to get them resolved:

 

Steam Support

 

 We're hoping for a simple resolution for you, and please stay engaged with us here while you determine the root cause as sharing information and helping each other is what these forums are all about! 

 

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Hey, @RomanBaikov! We just wanted to follow up with you on those lagging issues. Please let us know if you were able to verify the points above. We look forward to hearing from you and getting you back into the wonderful world of VR with the flawless streams that you deserve!

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Hello,

Here are my specs

I play with gaming laptop

Windows 10

Processor  i5-11400H

32 GB DDR4 RAM

GeForce 3060 RTX M

I launch games through oculus link or oculus->steamvr->steamgames

Prismxr Puppis1 specialized router for airlink

Here is topic with same problem (with video):

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/vg56fj/extreme_lags_and_glitches_when_opening/?sort=ne...

Hey there, @RomanBaikov! We appreciate you providing that information for us as well as a way to see what it is you're experiencing. Just so we can be as thorough as possible with how best to assist you, could you please let us know if you're seeing the same thing when you play Oculus VR games?

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Yes, same with Oculus VR

Looks like problem was because Oculus Dash app was using by default Integrated Intel GPU instead of GeForce RTX. I set correct GPU for Oculus Dash in Nvidia Control Panel and it fixed most of problems.

That's great to hear, @RomanBaikov! We're glad to know that switching the GPUs in your laptop was able to help with this issue. If you're still seeing any problems with lag while using PCVR, please let us know, and we'll be more than happy to continue looking into this issue with you!

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