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White horizontal stripe across screen while using link

Panzer_mk2
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Headset seems to work fine stand-alone.  I use the headset with IRacing, and often (not always) get a translucent horizontal stripe across the screen after about 15 minutes or so.  It doesn't feel like the headset is overheating.  This doesn't show up on the screen mirror on PC, or if I "mirror" with the debug tool.  Is this likely a failing display or is there somewhere else I should look?

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Ah and in case you are wondering I did try to put it back at 5 and it's still messed up. 

Xerberuz
Protege

Anything higher than 1 gives me an actual thicker stripe, so I set it back to 1.  I'm on the Quest pro.  Thanks again.

Did you try airlink? It doesn't work on my Quest Pro and Quest 2. I'm getting a thicker strip + some terrible artifacts even after setting it back to 5

I am on wifi, so Airlink it's awful for me and I never use it. Sorry 😞 

That’s odd. If you want to reverse this though, it’s really easy. Just open Registry Editor, locate RemoteHeadset under the same filepath as the command line fix, and right-click numSlices and simply delete it. 

Thanks that worked.  DR2 with  Link was working fine so maybe I can use it with link and deleted after. Thanks again

It's funny. Airlink works better for me but I think it's mostly on apps that were bought on the Rift store.  Anyways I deleted it from the registry and it works fine. I'll fiddle around with it when I have more time. Thanks for the reply. 

Keep in mind that Pokebert's fix ONLY applies to cabled Link and not AirLink.  As he noted Link uses the h.264 encoder while AirLink uses the NEVC encoder.   I haven't a clue what the Q Pro uses but probably Pokebert knows.

Also, there are lots of reasons for display artifacts to occur so it may be that you have one or more of the following issues:

  • Overheating of GPU
  • Overclocking the GPU
  • Loose or Damaged GPU cables
  • Inadequate Power Supply to GPU
  • Faulty Graphics Driver
  • Incompatible Applications
  • Old Graphics Card
  • Faulty VRAM
  • Damaged GPU

racingjunkie76
Protege

It was definitely the string that Caused that airlink problem because it happened right after and It's fine after I deleted it from the registry. It was also doing it on my Quest 2.  It's alright, I'll fiddle around with it later and probably find a way to make it work. Btw I think that  Pokebert's deserves an award for finding a fix after all those years. I always knew that it was someone from from the community that would fix it as the support from Oculus is horrible. I'm having issues creating a second profile and they have no clue how to fix it

To clarify on this, the Quest Pro uses HEVC over Air Link just like the Quest 2 does. I checked in the Oculus Debug Tool - Performance Overlay. Link Cable uses H.264.

The main difference in how Quest Pro might operate when it comes to Air Link in the future is when WiFi 6E compatibility rolls out to it. Meta may have the ability to allow higher bitrates when connected to a 6E router using QPro. 

Also, the reason I found the fix is by observing that Air Link only used one slice whereas Link uses 5 slices. I haven’t tested with 2-4 slices, but it’s totally possible they also circumvent the issue! You just might see those transparent encoding artifacts lines running horizontally across the screen. So, you can choose ultra crisp clarity with 5-10ms of added latency or take a very slightly less crisp image (especially in certain dark environments) and take the latency improvements.

 

AFAIK if numSlices is set to 1, it should keep that with Air Link too. I’ll test more over the weekend… 

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