oculus latest update, 10/09/18

Cote Dazur · Oct 9, 2018

todays update is preventing my GTX1080ti/CV1 to work.
This morning all was fine and this afternoon after the update nothing works.
anyone else is on the same boat?
Does someone has a solution?

Mascot · Jan 25, 2019

Denis Betty said:
Does Oculus Small work for you? You can change back and forth really easy.

What is it? Never even heard of it.

Denis Betty · Jan 26, 2019

OK it's not called that, that's just what I rename my Oculus folder. It's the old Oculus Home runtime, but stripped down. You can find it by searching
Old Oculus Home Runtime W/ Instructions
Works for me and others I know. Up to you if you wanna try it, but like I say, you change back and forth in a couple of minutes.

Mascot · Jan 26, 2019

Denis Betty said:
OK it's not called that, that's just what I rename my Oculus folder. It's the old Oculus Home runtime, but stripped down. You can find it by searching
Old Oculus Home Runtime W/ Instructions
Works for me and others I know. Up to you if you wanna try it, but like I say, you change back and forth in a couple of minutes.

Ah, you mean Oculus Homeless.
Yeah, been using that for the last couple of updates. It does help.

Whatever happened to ASW 2.0?

anton_Chez · Jan 26, 2019

I think it's still in the pipeline. However game engines need to be updated to make use of it so for you probably useless and an AC only racer. I know the KartKraft devs were saying on their Discord server that the titles need to be updated to use it and they were planning on doing it for theirs.

Absolutely no chance Kunos does this for AC at this point, surely?

Mascot · Jan 26, 2019

anton_Chez said:
I think it's still in the pipeline. However game engines need to be updated to make use of it so for you probably useless and an AC only racer. I know the KartKraft devs were saying on their Discord server that the titles need to be updated to use it and they were planning on doing it for theirs.

Absolutely no chance Kunos does this for AC at this point, surely?

Not Kunos, but Ilja has said he'd look into it when ASW 2.0 lands.

Mascot · Feb 9, 2019

Might be purely coincidental, but around the time of the recent update my Rift starts with no audio on the right-hand side. If I demount/remount the right-hand headphone then audio comes back, but will be gone on the next restart. I've swapped the headphone for a spare one with the same result. There's apparently a general CV1 issue with loss of audio due to the slidey 'ribbon' audio connectors in the headset adjustment, but adjusting the headset, taking it off/on multiple times etc doesn't lose the audio, but it'll be gone on next startup and require a removal/refit of the headphone to bring it back.

I use external 5.1 audio in sims and only use the Rift headphones for Crew Chief (so my engineer is getting piped into my 'helmet' for best immersion) so it's not the end of the world. But it is annoying. Anyone else getting this, and anyone have a solution? Like I said, it started around the time of the last update but to be honest I don't really think it's related. Thanks.

Insert Coin · Feb 9, 2019

I had the same problem about half a year ago. Sent my Rift back (under warranty, it was 1.5 years old), got a refurbished Rift back which looks brandnew. It's a design flaw as far as I can tell.

Insert Coin · Feb 9, 2019

One more thing: there is a workaround for the problem, see here. Before I sent my Rift back I tried this copper wire workaround and it worked. Looks a very DIY, but as long as it works...

arcadios · Feb 10, 2019

Denis Betty said:
OK it's not called that, that's just what I rename my Oculus folder. It's the old Oculus Home runtime, but stripped down. You can find it by searching
Old Oculus Home Runtime W/ Instructions
Works for me and others I know. Up to you if you wanna try it, but like I say, you change back and forth in a couple of minutes.

i didnt manage to make it work. i allways have black screen to my rift. you run the games from ott?

Mascot said:
Ah, you mean Oculus Homeless.
Yeah, been using that for the last couple of updates. It does help.

Whatever happened to ASW 2.0?

homeless is something diferent. he talks about not run home at all. not the home (unreal) enviroment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9odbvz/fixed_old_oculus_home_runtime_w_instructions/

katikomer · Feb 10, 2019

arcadios said:
i didnt manage to make it work. i allways have black screen to my rift. you run the games from ott?

homeless is something diferent. he talks about not run home at all. not the home (unreal) enviroment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9odbvz/fixed_old_oculus_home_runtime_w_instructions/

If you use this method you won’t have anything showing in the HMD hence the black screen. Only once ACS.exe is loaded then it starts rendering into the Rift.

Jordan Dion · Feb 10, 2019

katikomer said:
If you use this method you won’t have anything showing in the HMD hence the black screen. Only once ACS.exe is loaded then it starts rendering into the Rift.

Do you run the ex. As administrator?
If yes try starting whitout

katikomer · Feb 10, 2019

Jordan Dion said:
Do you run the ex. As administrator?
If yes try starting whitout

I have no issues with mine, I was commenting on arcadios sounded like he was unsure of how to get it working

arcadios · Feb 10, 2019

yes i use this method. i only have black screen but with audio and i can see on my tv that the motion working. i dont use administrator auth.

anton_Chez · Feb 10, 2019

I have an issue with Content Manager and the Rift not wanting to boot into the game unless I close both Oculus software AND Content Manager. Then I must reopen CM, hit Drive and let the Rift boot itself into the game.

The problem with this is I have just started using Virtual Desktop and it's a pain in the ASS to have to close everything off and start back up again. I kinda need the Oculus software running to use Virtual Desktop!

Jordan Dion · Feb 10, 2019

anton_Chez said:
I have an issue with Content Manager and the Rift not wanting to boot into the game unless I close both Oculus software AND Content Manager. Then I must reopen CM, hit Drive and let the Rift boot itself into the game.

The problem with this is I have just started using Virtual Desktop and it's a pain in the ASS to have to close everything off and start back up again. I kinda need the Oculus software running to use Virtual Desktop!

I got this problem about 3 months ago...
I deleted all Oculus things on my pc and reinstalled Oculus.
Everything went like before after this

Jordan Dion · Feb 10, 2019

arcadios said:
yes i use this method. i only have black screen but with audio and i can see on my tv that the motion working. i dont use administrator auth.

Really strange... Because its exactly the same problem when i was running the rift as administrator..
What about other games and run AC whitout content manager?

anton_Chez · Feb 10, 2019

I should add I am running the Oculus 'Homeless' method. This might be affecting it somewhat. I have done a format for Rift reasons not too long ago (I still haven't put all my shortcuts and stuff back in case something else went wrong) so I don't know how effective another reinstall of Oculus software will be but I can only try. Thanks for the feedback!

anton_Chez · Feb 10, 2019

I tried running the stock launcher, I don't think I've had much luck with that either. Even playing with the launch options in CM hasn't given me any results. It's weird.

arcadios · Feb 10, 2019

Jordan Dion said:
Really strange... Because its exactly the same problem when i was running the rift as administrator..
What about other games and run AC whitout content manager?

all vr games have the same problem. i can see the tracking of the headset on my tv but no video in headset. no exe file run as admin. the homeless file works fine but this no!

EDIT EDIT EDIT
I did a repair to my oculus software and now...!!!!! WOOOOOOWWWWWW
SMOOOOOOOTTTTHHHHH!
i max everything in content manager (even reflection x6) SS 2.0 and i got no single problem.
14 cars starting grid and i dont miss a frame! How is that posible?
i have i5 4670 with gtx1080. i played before everything low and ss1.5
Thank you all!

Jordan Dion · Feb 10, 2019

arcadios said:
all vr games have the same problem. i can see the tracking of the headset on my tv but no video in headset. no exe file run as admin. the homeless file works fine but this no!

EDIT EDIT EDIT
I did a repair to my oculus software and now...!!!!! WOOOOOOWWWWWW
SMOOOOOOOTTTTHHHHH!
i max everything in content manager (even reflection x6) SS 2.0 and i got no single problem.
14 cars starting grid and i dont miss a frame! How is that posible?
i have i5 4670 with gtx1080. i played before everything low and ss1.5
Thank you all!

Cool !
The last Nvidia and Oculus update were a wolid fps boost for me.
If i can suggest to many of you that had problems whit rift, try reinstalling the driver Oculus drivers. 1 time on 2 it solve the problem