Why has Horizon Worlds become so buggy??
OK, I looked to see if anyone has posted about this. Over the past three weeks, this app has gotten BIG TIME buggy. I don't know if this is because of a software update or what, but it needs to be fixed because the platform is becoming unplayable. Worlds like Bunky's, Gatsby's, Earthbound Cosmic Beach, etc constantly crash and kick players out. The lag in some of these worlds is absurd - even when only 30 people are in the world, the lag makes gameplay impossible because the physics get all jacked up. The Horizon Worlds dashboard takes forever to load thumbnails, making browsing for Worlds a battery vampire. Because we're constantly getting kicked out of worlds that crash, half our headset battery life is spent on load screens returning to worlds. Other players I've discussed this with have experienced delays on rewards/points updates, or profile pics not showing up on in-world scoreboards. At Bunky's, knocking over all the bowling pins - even when the throw is dead center down the lane - won't count as a strike. Another time, I threw straight down the lane and the two right-most pins tipped over then froze, so it didn't count as a strike. The laser pistol is ungrabbable half the time, making it impossible for us to play target practice. I originally thought it was a problem with my headset and/or internet connection; but I've mentioned these issues to at least five or six other people and they ALL report similar problems in the past few weeks. A few nights ago, Bunky's crashed completely two different times, kicking everyone out. Other times, clicking to visit a world in the dashboard will make the chime, but won't actually DO anything. Yet other times, attempting to visit a world will cause Horizon Worlds OVERALL to crash and put me back at my "home virtual environment." I realize this tech is still pretty new, but this is patently absurd for a corporation this large. I've had my Quest 2 since 2023 and NEVER had a single issue playing Myst, Riven, Brinks Traveler, Ocean Rift, Richie's Plank Challenge, etc. I started playing Worlds about two months ago, and for the first month and a half, it may have crashed once. Now it crashes several times a night. So what gives??
Quest Link via cable low performance after update
I'm really upset with the performance of Quest software nowadays. I was playing Alyx, Metro and Beat Saber a while ago with zero issues (recommended settings and 600mb bitrate on debug). For some reason, after some updates, I'm getting unplayable stutters even on the Link menu while using the headset. Nothing changed on my hardware. I'm still playing all my flat games on 2k with high fps, so why they reduced my recommended settings and I'm getting really bad fps even on 0.7x? RTX 3080, RYZEN 9 6900HX, 32GB RAM, WIRED LINK 3.2 GBPS
OVRHaptics causing dropped frames.
Hello! I've recently run into an issue where OVRHaptics is causing my application to drop frames. The issue seems to be OVRHaptics calling a function called Config.Load() every 0.5s or so. The function is heavy and causes a ~10ms spike. I would assume a function like this would only be intended to be called once during a setup or awake. So far this issue is only occurring on a single PC running the project on Rift via the Unity editor. I've been unable to reproduce the issue on my main machine. Anyone have any idea about what's going on? Here's some information about the system in question. Unity Release: 2018.4.10f1 Oculus Integration: 1.42.0
Low poly-count indoor scene with performance issues while looking outside the room (weird pattern)
Hey there, Sorry, couldn't make a good title for this long post. To start, I have a discussion (https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/62088/experiencing-some-lags-stutter-in-games-apps-laptop-gtx-1060-is-hardware-the-problem#latest), that explains my problems while playing the Oculus Home app and Robo Recall. The lags/stuttering do not make them unplayable but is noticeable. The takeaway could be that my hardware is, in fact, the problem. Here's the build (if you didn't see in the other post): It's a Laptop i7 7700 HQ 2.8 GHz 32 GB RAM GTX1060 GPU headset pluged in usb 3.0 (but says 2.0) - using an usb 3.0 extension because the usb close to the HDMI is under an Asmedia controller with compatibility issues 1 sensor in usb 3.0 1 sensor in usb 2.0 it was expensive (I'm in Brazil) Secondly, what I've already tried: Set windows settings to performance over quality Disabled USB power saving in windows settings Went to Devices panel and turned off USB power saving option in every USB device possible Disabled windows defender while playing/working (I have no other anti-virus) I have no recording apps or anything with overlay issues that I've read about Disabled game overlay in GeForce Experience Set performance option in Nvidia Cotrol panel Now talking about Rift and Unity. I read about performance and optimizations and first I have to say that I did nothing about that in this scene that I'm going to show. I wanted to understand the need for optimization before optimizing. In unity docs they say you can get away with from 1 to 2 million vertices in view. I setup a scene with a maximum of 56k vertices in view. Why? Because I had one with 250k max and the stuttering was really noticeable, so I did cut a lot of heavy things. So how the scene is setup? Unity 2017.3.1f1 Only baked ligthmap No realtime shadows, because no realtime lights 1 non-directional lightmap of 4096x4096 (better than many of 1024x1024?) Forward rendering - tried with deferred too, with the same result Stereo rendering mode - tried single pass and multi pass, with the same result Two baked reflection probes (box projection) 6 point lights (baked) 1 directional light (baked) Camera (center eye anchor in a OVRCameraRig prefab) - not using Skybox No atlas for the textures used (the ground and one wall paper on the wall) - image below Too many materials? Lighting settings: Player settings: Here tried GPU Skinning, Graphics Jobs, with same results. Model hierarchy: The selected object has a mesh renderer as it's children. (the grouping can affect batching?) So, let's see the problem in video. I have three in youtube (linked below) In Unity without the profiler (with stats): https://youtu.be/-RjO3wu6l3Y In Unity with the profiler (with stats): https://youtu.be/lq7bQodU_Ho With a build (Fantastic quality) https://youtu.be/umb17rUJCOk I tried with lower quality, but the problem persist. When I crouch and stand up it happens too (simulating the pattern shown in the videos above). No problems when the view is restricted inside the room. When I look "outside" through the glass door (transparent material with reflections) the problem occurs. Disabled Static and Dynamic Batching once to see what happened, and the stutter happened on the glass door, instead of when moving the head to face the table. I read that the unity Skybox is a problem. I supose I'm not using it. I really want to understand what is going on here, before I try to optimize without knowing what to. Again, too low-end hardware?
