I started writing this post last night after I felt confident I could game without overheating issues of the graphics card. Tried playing ASTRONEER for just a bit, and was blown away with how buttery smooth the framerate was (compared to before). Truly amazing difference. Can’t wait to try it in the purpose for this upgrade (VR). Plugged in the USB 3.0 cable in this specialized ‘VR Ready’ port, really hoping I’m going to get the most optimal experience.
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More RL drama
Before I could enjoy my breakfast the normal time of waking up, I had to deal with drama from mother over promising her I would get to her as soon as I finished my upgrade. Handled it, pretty poorly for someone that had just woken up. Half of me feels like
she ‘should had known’ I would need some time after to make sure I would be happy… but the other half understands her frustration. I would be frustrated too if she was the only one with a computer that could go online (if worst had come to worst and I actually did fry my new hardware…. thank God I didn’t).
Of course, I still have my phone.. and, as much as I don’t like him for not telling me the truth about why he left me two weeks ago, I thank Wuffer for recommending me it. It was an absolute godsend yesterday. I would hate to think if I still had to use my Android phone in that same situation.
At 2pm, I had to help mother take her computer out to the garage (and store it until I feel ready to fixing her issue). But before I did that, I updated my graphics card’s drivers to the latest version.
Also, DJ said the board should update the chipset and audio drivers by itself. He also said not to use the CD the CPU came with, as that caused something to happen to his computer.
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Testing the new upgrade with VR
A few hours after dinner is when I felt ready to try. WMR booted up without that damn issue to restart my computer before it’ll recognize it. Launched it with Playspace Mover and SteamVR no problem, and went ingame.
…Holy FUCK the difference compared to before!! Buttery smooth 90FPS, in VR!! WOOT! Time to go tell all my friends I can finally hang out with them without suffering! Joined some in worlds with a lot of people, and hardly felt any slowdowns. FPS was around 50-60FPS with 15 people (which I would typically get 20 or less with my previous hardware). I am damn impressed with what I’m seeing.
Some time later while in Kovo’s world and talking to friends, I started noticing issues I never had before: sudden losses in connectivity to my headset and weird behavior with the controllers. It got progressively worse to where the screen froze, then displayed a blue screen and a black screen.
Taking off my headset, I can see SteamVR no longer running, and MR Portal suddenly no longer showing the headset being connected.
10 seconds later, MR Portal refreshes, and shows Error code 1-5. Ahh fuck. What happened?! Don’t tell me my graphics card now can’t handle VR! Is it a heat issue? Are the fans not ramping up?
Did a restart as it said to, and the headset showed it was connected again. Thought surely I won’t see this issue again. …About 3 hours later, same thing. Okay, WHAT?! I restarted FFS!! Unplugged and plugged in the USB 3.0 cable, and the headset reconnected.
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Tried running MSI Afterburner to see if it truly was a heat issue. It’s idling near 60*C. Ramped up the fans and it cooled to 51*C and stayed there until MR Portal closed
out, then continued cooling back to 34*C.
Managed to figure out how to have the on-screen readout of the temps, but I can’t get them to show in the headset. Had to lift up the visor of the headset to see the screen. 10 minutes later, the crash happens again. FUCK!! Okay, so it’s not a thermal issue. What about updating the WindowsMR for SteamVR drivers (hopefully they did it by now)? Sure enough there was two updates to fix this issue, and got the latest. Let’s pray it’s a driver issue this time.. because I’m running out of options before I start panicking.
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Tried again, two hours later, crash. Same fucking way. Not a driver issue! God DAMNIT!! I have no choice but to ask for help now, and hopefully someone has had the same
issue (and has a fix).
Been trying to pick at my brain for any possible assumptions on why this might be happening (and any fixes I could think of). And, most of them aren’t good.
As for assumptions, I have noticed a half an hour or an hour before the issue happens, there’s slight drops in framerate or something when someone is waving their hands infront of me (as if the GPU is having trouble trying to keep up, and could be a sign of a bottleneck.. as I do see 100% use in VR).
Thing is, if it was the GPU, I really doubt it would be causing a complete loss in connectivity of the USB 3.0 cable (especially the fact MR Portal doesn’t really respond when taking out and putting back in the HDMI cable).
Think there might be something wrong with that VR Ready port, and tried moving the cable to another port. I haven’t tested it since then as I was busy typing all of this in.
What I really need to be doing is testing it in other VR games (besides only VRChat), like Beat Saber or something else. It could be an issue VRChat is causing with the new
update, and might be able to be fixed by lowering the resolution in SteamVR (for the GPU to not be taxed as hard).
If that doesn’t work, then I’ll try to reinstall the WMR firmware. And if that doesn’t work..? I’ll be out of ideas (except thinking I have a serious issue with the new board, or the graphics card).
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..Wait, WHAT?! (The biggest shocker this year of playing VRChat)
Meanwhile, sometime before the 2nd time I had this crash, I was with Nighwolf15 who was again heartbroken over his GF leaving him for another guy. Then it was like him suddenly turning bi (commenting about my ‘fine ass’) as if he now has a crush on me (or something). Wait ’till he hears how old I am. 😛
Now he’s hugging and kissing me, being lonely and stuff like that.
And speaking of past lovers… mine decided to pop into the world we were in. What was extremely odd about this, Sneaky was there and the two talked for a long time.
Okay, Sneaky and Wuffer, two former lovers who hate eachother, are now talking. WTF?!?! Then Wuffer leaves the world, and Sneaky comes running up to the mirror. I turn around, semi-curious what the two were talking about. He says to “check my
status” and doesn’t care if I get pissed off or whatever.
I do, and my jaw drops when I see “My Wuffer!!!”
*blinks* I literally did a double-take, in a complete disbelief of what I was seeing. ..H..HOW!? Went to Sneaky who was walking away, and asked what the hell
happened, and he said “I made up”. I dropped the conversation after that, not knowing how to respond.
And I.. still, don’t believe it! It’s not that I’m mad, I’m just quite shocked. When Wuffer and I were dating, he was all “Sneaky can go die in a fire, screw him”. Now they’re back together?!
Can only assume one thing: He is clearly desperate to find someone to replace
me (instead of just coming up and telling me the fucking TRUTH that my real life turned him off). And, I hope it works out for them. I want to see them happy again.
A lot less drama on my part.