Something I keep putting off since I said I was going to do it, mainly because I’m scared of the results. I want to get the Vive so much, but something keeps reminding me I’m only going to waste my money (and the issue could be in my computer, or something attached to it).
Acid yesterday, kindly reminded me the GPU could still be at fault; that it doesn’t matter if it runs non-VR games.. he says “VR is more demanding” and my GPU may not be enough for it. So I might be forced to change priorities and get a better graphics card instead of a Vive (or something else).
Even Zagro, one time, said in a private call: “you’re going to be pissed if this thing works after you send it to me”.
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Discovered when unplugging the non-essential USBs (and my secondary monitor), only three USBs were non-essential (minus the two that connect to my external hard
drive). One is the Bluetooth dongle to my wireless headphones, and the other is my HOTAS. And the last one, I’m not even sure what it does. I’ll have to plug it in and figure out what Windows installs for it.
As of now (after having to install the software from the Microsoft Store), MR Portal is showing all green– it passed the PC check, saying the USB 3.o port is fine. Now wants me to get the controllers paired up. Have to charge up some batteries before I do so.
This is a good sign, but it also worries me at the same time. 😣
It could be my graphics card cannot handle VR as much as I was told it could (more pricy to fix), or it could be the headset is taking more power than it’s supposed to from the motherboard (less pricy to fix). It’s a process of elimination.
Talking with Acid while waiting for the batteries to charge, he still feels it could be the graphics card being the fault, and recommended I get what he has. But with the majority being DisplayPorts, that card isn’t going to work for me; I need a DisplayPort and two HDMI ports (or, just three HDMI ports and get rid of the HDMI to DisplayPort adapter for my primary monitor).
Decided to go a bit further into setting up the controller pairing process (to get it ready). I’m also asking Acid to please find me a card that has the ports I need. Then I happened to glance at the lower right of my screen (the Notifications) and saw there’s two messages.
…One of them showed;
Ohh, HERE we go!! 😃 Yet it didn’t make sense as the headset was sitting idle for an hour.
Anyway I checked Device Manager. Sure enough.. my good ole friend “USB_SPEED_TOO
_SLOW” is back for more. NICE! It’s NOT my computer!! WOOT! 🤸
Saw another issue, assuming it might be saying something wrong happened with the Bluetooth adapter.
Unplugged and plugged the cable back in, error persisted. So it’s not the Bluetooth adapter. Reading the error of how it says it “stopped this device”, reminded me of what I saw in Event Viewer of Windows trying to restart the headset drivers 5 times and
failing.
Went to the Event Viewer… but now I have more questions than answers;
‘BTHUSB’. …Assuming ‘BTH’ was the abbreviation for Bluetooth, is it now saying there’s an issue with the adapter now?! After finding out ‘BT’ is the actual abbreviation, and
this ‘BTHUSB’ is a driver, I tried to figure out what it does. Didn’t tell me. So I tried to look up the Event ID and got several cases of the issue (with laptops and Bluetooth).. but nothing that seems close to my issue, though.
Is this a sign the issue with low power, could be linked to the Bluetooth adapter? No, I don’t think so. Looking closer at the error, it’s stating there’s a device connected via
Bluetooth that’s at a Low Power state.. aka the headset. Thinking about it more
carefully, the fact the motion controllers are a part of the headset, it assumes the headset itself is a Bluetooth peripheral.
So what have I eliminated (that was a probable cause) from this exercise?
-GPU stress caused by VR games.
-Too many USB ports connected to the back of my computer.
What I have discovered…
-Issue happens just from the headset sitting idle for an hour.
-An error about Bluetooth, that makes no sense to me.
What I still don’t know (that could be a probable cause)…
-The headset taking too much power from its USB 3.0 port, and I had it plugged into the VR Ready port (and only had it and the Bluetooth dongle plugged into the USB 3.0 ports).
Something inside of that headset, is broken. So thank GOD it’s not my computer (or something I did when I upgraded the hardware)!! That is SUCH a relief off of my
chest!!! 😌
Going to shut down, pack the headset back in its box (and the controllers), then undo what I did; get back to normal.
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After doing so, CHKDSK suddenly felt like it needed to run and fixed some apparent issues with my C drive. Strange. Very strange. I hope this isn’t a sign the drive is going to fail soon. That’s just what I don’t need right now!
Did further look into it, and it was basically Windows apparently bitching at me for not shutting down Windows the right way. 🙄 It doesn’t like how I press the power button on my computer, so it ran CHKDSK just to make sure there wasn’t an issue. And according to Event Viewer…
Volume C: (\Device\HarddiskVolume4) is healthy. No action is needed.
Good! Good good good, good good good.. GOOD!! 🙂 One less thing to worry
about.
Anyway, on top of this, mother had just let me know that she “smelled sewage” coming from the pipes when she was outside this morning, so she has to give me $50 less than what she promised ($250).
Still, I will have enough to get the Vive (that $250 combined with the money in my bank account)… but barely. Going by calculations, I will have $22 left in the bank. Aka, it’ll take awhile to bounce back from that.
*sigh*… On one hand I feel bad about accepting this money, as having it around for a just incase scenario is more important. I just don’t feel $50 is going to cover whatever’s going wrong under our house (I say it could be over $2.000+ and them having to dig up our yard to replace the pipes). Pray that isn’t going to be the case, but smelling sewage outside isn’t something you want.
Mother says $50 is what they would typically need to come out and take a look. And if it’s a rusted pipe or something, our homeowner’s insurance should cover most of the cost (and the $300 won’t do much help anyway).
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So, I’m still good to order the Vive from Amazon by tomorrow, but that depends when father gets his pension check (which hopefully will be tomorrow).
Now if I was to go all the way and get full body tracking on top of it (which isn’t going to happen anytime soon), I would guesstimate the total cost would be close to $1,000. OOF.
I’m better off saving up to get the Valve Index.. after I get the Vive of course (which I hear has very high praise from VR enthusiasts).