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Bolerus

Bolerus

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I have a quest 2, and play loads.

Also have a couple of pc vr games , elite dangerous being the main one.

I had a Rx 580. Which was ok but occasionally jittered. So bought a 1080 ti. Installed it. Played a couple of games to test,. Then for the quest 2 connected up and fired up elite.
After about a minute it locks....tried a few times with different variations of the connections...(wired, wireless etc) same every time. Star wars squadrons exactly the same.


Any ideas at all...I am thinking power. I'm using a cheaper end evga 600 watt (just agreed a 1000 watt from members market).
The pc spec is. Ryzen 3700x.16 gig ram.

Any suggestions would be welcome
 
Bolerus said:
I have a quest 2, and play loads.

Also have a couple of pc vr games , elite dangerous being the main one.

I had a Rx 580. Which was ok but occasionally jittered. So bought a 1080 ti. Installed it. Played a couple of games to test,. Then for the quest 2 connected up and fired up elite.
After about a minute it locks....tried a few times with different variations of the connections...(wired, wireless etc) same every time. Star wars squadrons exactly the same.


Any ideas at all...I am thinking power. I'm using a cheaper end evga 600 watt (just agreed a 1000 watt from members market).
The pc spec is. Ryzen 3700x.16 gig ram.

Any suggestions would be welcome
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i would've thought 600W was enough for a 1080ti :confused:
If the locking has only appeared since installing a new gpu, i'd suspect the gpu.
 
Participant said:
Are you overclocking either the CPU
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tyke_ said:
i would've thought 600W was enough for a 1080ti :confused:
If the locking has only appeared since installing a new gpu, i'd suspect the gpu.
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i dint mention - although i thought it at time of writing. the 600 psu has 2 8 pin pcie but they are both on the same rail /cable so perhaps its not getting enough through there?

playing the same game without the VR seems to be ok though. trhinking that it may be the link cable taking more power, i conected via air link... the pc is upstairs on a powerline adapter, so i expected a bad performance, but that was the same, locked after about 1 - 2 minutes
 
could be heat building up, to rule that out open your PC case and up all the fan speeds to max

and good luck trying to get Elite Dangerous Odyssey to run well in VR, you need a beast of a GPU for that title
 
Bolerus said:
I also suspect the GPU but I want to eliminate as much as possible before going down that route
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I think it's the PSU. Elite Dangerous is more demanding in VR than on the desktop. You might be running the same settings, but, everything has to work that bit harder in VR, especially the CPU.

If it's a Gold rated PSU, 600W might be ok, but if it's a bronze or lower and it's over 5 years old, it might not be good enough and a power spike is causing the lock-up. .
 
BigBANGtheory said:
could be heat building up, to rule that out open your PC case and up all the fan speeds to max

and good luck trying to get Elite Dangerous Odyssey to run well in VR, you need a beast of a GPU for that title
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It ran ok on my 1080ti at lower settings on older headsets like the CV1, but it was only when I upgraded to a 3090 that I could up the settings and run at a reasonable resolution on the Index and Quest 2. Also a 1080ti isn't as good at video encoding as later GPUs so there's a little more overhead there.
 
the psu is :-

Evga 600 W1, 80+ White 600W​


doesent mention bronze, silver or otherwise ( does that mean its below bronze)

the one i am buying ( well have bought , just waiting for) is Evga 1000w gold modular

presumably the new one is far superior to the old one, and hopefully will be able to cope
 
Bolerus said:
the psu is :-

Evga 600 W1, 80+ White 600W​


doesent mention bronze, silver or otherwise ( does that mean its below bronze)

the one i am buying ( well have bought , just waiting for) is Evga 1000w gold modular

presumably the new one is far superior to the old one, and hopefully will be able to cope
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Yeah, it's below bronze. It's a pretty crappy PSU to be honest. Good PSUs can handle Transient spikes even when running at full load. Poor PSU's can't, they just fall over.

The New 1000W Gold Rated PSU will be far, far better than what you have now.
 
might be worth trying an underclock on your GPU in the meantime until your PSU arrives? might keep it stable albeit slower.
 
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