Though, yesterday (Monday) wasn’t really going to be a good night, but it turned out better than expected.
How it started is I saw Cola online. Wasn’t sure if I should even come on, as I’ve been once again having my doubts over if he still feels the same love as I do for him. But I went on anyway. Coming into the world, a random person came running up to me, acting like they knew me. I don’t remember them, but I try to focus on finding Cola. After looking around the main building, I couldn’t find him. Assuming he was in the private room, I went in and clicked on the door. There was Nighwolf and Cola, and Nigh was all “the door was
locked, how did you get in here?” I tried explaining that the light was red, which allowed access. But he swears up and down the door was locked.
Fine, whatever. You two are having an obvious private conversation, so I’ll just leave. I half expected one of them to come running out and apologize, but it never happened. Felt ‘done’ for the night after that (and to the point I was nearly considering of removing cola from the poly).
Then I noticed Red Fox was on and I went back on. Good thing, as I was able to do it with him. And during it, cola was trying to get invited to our private instance.
Once Red and I were done, I saw cola was in Kovo’s world and went there. Cola (in his own way) showed me he was still interested in being part of the poly, so I gladly reversed my decision. My apologies for doubting you. I still love you. 🙂
So now I’m hanging out with him and Red Fox. Now if only Blue could come online, then I’ll be able to get a group photo of all four of us. Asked Blue if he could come, and he said he would in 10 or so minutes. And with cola saying he had plenty of time, hopefully we’ll be able to get that photo done.
While I waited, I hung out with other friends. One of them noticed a flaw with my avatar and pointed it out. Another friend told me that he could fix it for me, and I sent him the blend file that Erodac made for me.
He did, and I told him how I’ve been looking for someone that would do the attachments onto the model. He asked for my sona as a reference, and I showed him. Then he told me that he could do a commission of my sona, and to name my price. Kovo came up to him and said “$45 to $70”. The friend said “that’s too much”. I stood there a bit
confused, wanting to say that I was going to be charged ‘hundreds of dollars’ to have a commission.
He then surprised me, saying he would do it.. for FREE.
You can’t be serious! You would give me something I kind of wanted since I was able to upload something to VRChat for the first time?! ..Yes, he was, saying he has nothing better to do, and it would be quite the challenge for him. So..
DO IT!! 😀 Why would I ever turn down such an offer?! What an awesome early birthday gift that would be! Much later, he sent me the fix to my model. He said there was a lot of “rushed jobs” of improper weight painting.
Understandable with Erodac. Glad I’m not having to rely on them anymore.
More time passed, and BlueBio joined. YAY! Now I can finally do the group photo of
my ‘non-commitment polyrelationship’ of the three I’m inlove with, and have Kovo put the picture on a wall in my room!
After that, I told them that they can go back to what they were doing before. Moments later, Kovo comes into my room asking me if I wanted them to check out the new ‘porn world’ he’s been working on.
I’ve seen the world before, and it’s.. well, what you would expect from Kovo: every room having pictures of porn on the walls. And it’s been updated (more rooms with even more porn on the walls. Yay..). So as we’re exploring, I noticed cola going in another room (but we keep exploring the rooms and stuff).
We were about ready to head back to Kovo’s world. Entered the room I saw cola run into and I see him… laying down on the bed infront of me.
Well now, this is.. interesting! Quickly realized he wanted me to take pictures for a body pillow of himself. And so with him legitimately acting like a porn star (and I was the photographer being all “yeah, baby! Yeah!”), I got about 20 pictures of rather steamy pics of him. Best. day. ever.
Thank you.. erm, so much cola! This definitely makes up for what happened earlier. Would had done it with him right then and there (since he looked ready for it), but seeing how Blue and Red were still there, I felt it was better we went back to Kovo’s world.
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And this is when things went from good to bad, as very early Tuesday morning rolled in.
Now it started out alright, until we all got lagged out of the world from VRChat being buggy. Cola went to bed, so did Red Fox. Kovo went to go play another game. So I made a new instance of Kovo’s world, expecting everyone to join. Only a few did (including Blue).
Someone else had created another instance before me, and he went there. So I joined him and we stayed there.
We were in the bar hanging with DJ and Wufy, while the room was getting quite crowded. Assuming that’s why Blue left to my room. Ran in to be with him for awhile, trying to wait for the time where most of these random people leave the world. Blue comes out and then turns away from me, looking like he’s talking to air. I check the online list, and
noticed …Chris is here. Shit! Blue doesn’t know about Chris!
I was hoping Blue would see me and we would go back to the mirror, but he stayed there talking to him. Decided to go to another world.. and I really, really wish I didn’t. Wanted to join Dinger and hang out with him for a bit, while I wait for Blue to notice I’ve left the world.
Dinger’s with Jusper, and is having some really bad issues with high ping. Jusper sees me is is somewhat worried that I’m quiet since I joined (as I was telling Blue about Chris and to avoid him at all costs). Wanted to tell Jusper about Blue being with Chris, but Dinger keeps complaining about his high ping. Jusper tries to help him out and somewhat manages to do so, but Dinger’s not able to see our avatars. Jusper tells Dinger to rejoin the world.
Moments after he does, my headset starts to freak the fuck out (attempting to disconnect itself). ..No. NO no NO!! NOT THIS ISSUE AGAIN!!! The fuck is Jusper’s modded client doing to my headset?! It was WORKING FINE before I joined here!!
I’m hoping the issue doesn’t happen again, switch to my virtual desktop and ask Blue in Discord to please join me here. Says he’s “busy talking to someone”.
..And it happens a second time about 20 minutes later. I’m already mad the fact Chris is in Kovo’s world talking to one of my sweethearts, I don’t need this shit!!
Tell Jusper, and he says “maybe it’s time for an upgrade”. Told him that I have no money to afford another VR headset, let alone get the Oculus. Tells me to stay away from the
Rift S. No shit. He said to at least get the Vive, as it would be “the cheapest option” for me.
Headset tries to turn itself off a 3rd time.. and succeeds in doing so. UGH!!!
DAMNIT!!
Felt done, but I saw my son is now showing up online. Decided to go see him (who was in Kovo’s world too). When I got there, he was AFK at spawn. Told him in a DM “Blue’s talking with… Chris.” Five minutes later, Blue sends me a DM saying he’s in the
tower, “hiding from random shit down there”. I leave Insanely at spawn and go there, and meet with him. There was someone else there, so I didn’t want to tell him ingame (plus I was still pissed at my computer for doing this BS). He DMs saying that Chris is “a bit of an odd one” and something about “he can’t help lewding people” and tried to lewd him. But Blue stopped him. He said Chris freaked out when Blue said he was in a call, and then Chris left.
Blue also said Chris was annoyed when he saw the body pillow of me. “started sayin
shit. and said oh great your one of his sex slaves arent you”. As usual, Chris is still spreading lies about me. They are not ‘sex slaves’. I give them lots, and lots of love and affection. I treat them with proper respect.
I explained about Chris (including that he’s underaged). Blue was glad he stopped himself and thanked me for notifying him.
Insanely came back from AFKLand and met us in the tower. Blue was getting sleepy at the time, and I convinced him to get to bed. Insanely and I went to my home world and hung out for awhile… when my headset disconnected itself again.
Ok, what the fuck. I made NO changes to the back (or the internals) of my computer! It has been working fine, though about a week ago I have been noticing some issues with the headset no longer being detected. I also have been having issues of my Ethernet cable acting like it’s not connected (after starting up my computer).
Went into Device Manager, and discovered something interesting when I went into ‘Mixed Reality devices’ and then ‘Lenovo Explorer’. It showed in the device status;
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‘This device is working properly.
Device Error : 0x80040203 :
E_DEVICE_USB_SPEED_TOO_SLOW’
It’s in the same slot it was in before.. how in the fuck is it saying it’s ‘too slow’?!
Is there a thing where the speed of a USB 3.0 port degrades over time, causing the glitching I get? Or does this mean the accidental zap when I was plugging in the new
PSU, do something to the ports (of shortening their lifespan)?
Did a search of the error, and this came up on the WindowsMR Reddit board.
That proves there’s a fault in the motherboard. Maybe I should buy another, and then replace this possible faulty one with a fresh one. Thing is.. the key I got for Windows 10 may not work with the new board.
Decided to unplug both cables and shut down my computer for the night. When I got up today, I turned it on and booted it up. This time, no error about the USB port not properly plugged in. Was saying the HDMI cable wasn’t instead. Unplugging and re-plugging fixed that. Did a restart.. where my computer hung on (forcing me to press the reset button). I swear my computer is making me regret upgrading.
Got in, checked Device Manager again, no ‘USB speed too slow’ message. Infact it detected my headset perfectly. Maybe I just did a reset, and the issue shouldn’t happen for awhile? God only knows.
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And so a Windows update made it happen again. Was a rather big update, but at least my computer restarted normally. Decided to ask the expert (Zagro) if he knows. He told me to go to Device Manager, look up ‘ASMedia USB 3.1 eXtensible Host Controller’, update the drivers but select the ‘Browse my computer for driver software’ and ‘Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer’. Select the ‘USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller’ and install it, then restart the computer.
After the restart, WindowsMR is suddenly now behaving normally (the headset is
found, there was no black screen after it). I have no conformation this is what is needed to fix the issue (will be finding out tonight), but Zagro says he has to do it for his headset.
He also says whenever Windows Update hits, I’ll have to do it again. Something about the ASMedia USB 3.0 chip is so fucked (and so is its drivers), and this is something either ASMedia or Micro$oft has to fix.
Finally, he suggests an option to get a USB 3.0 PCI-E card as a way to stop the issue from ever happening again. Going by that Reddit thread, a lot of people recommend one with
the ‘Fresco chip’ that will allow WindowsMR to work with it. Asking Zagro, he said it’s just another manufacture’s name… something similar to this I randomly found. Zagro also said the fact it has a power connector, “it will take the power load off your mobo’s usb rail”. That’s a good thing.
I’ll have to ask around if anyone uses a PCI-E card for their WindowsMR, because he doesn’t. He says changing the drivers solves the issue for him. But again.. I don’t know if his issue is my issue. I will have to find out tonight, but right now it looks good with WindowsMR responding as it’s supposed to.
Finally, when asking if the issue was related to a faulty motherboard, he said “oh hell no”.
For now, I can get to work making a body pillow for Cola. 🙂 I also got to apply the fix to my model, which will take time as well.