Oculus Rift overheating?

AgtX · 27 Aug 2017 at 18:21

Asus P8p67 i5 2500k, 16gb memory, GTX 970

I bought a Rift & it works but after about 5 minutes of gameplay it starts struggling to track the touch sensors & the headset gets hot & then just turns off, it wont work again unless I restart the computer, but when I try to restart it will just forever sit on the "shutting down" screen.

I know my pc is borderline for running VR but it seems mostly like the headset is getting too hot, the computer isn't freezing or misbehaving, gpu seems to cope.

The motherboard only has 2 USB 3.0 ports, I have the headset & one sensor plugged into those, the other is in a regular usb. Also the headphones on the rift never worked, sometimes hear a click noise!?!

Faulty headset?

Wrinkly · 27 Aug 2017 at 18:53

Looking at the motherboard manual, the USB 3.0 ports are based on a NEC controller. This maybe the cause of your issues.

Have you run the oculus compatability tool (https://support.oculus.com/1633938460220125/)?

Have you tried only the Headset connected to USB 3.0 and both sensors connected to USB 2.0?

AgtX · 27 Aug 2017 at 18:59

oh.. that's the core of the problem then. oops.

hyperseven · 27 Aug 2017 at 20:42

AgtX said:
oh.. that's the core of the problem then. oops.

you'd be better off installing an usb3 card, £25, as you may still run into issues in saturating your available USB bandwidth and an extra controller should help.

AgtX · 27 Aug 2017 at 21:49

Any suggestions for usb3 cards that will work well?

Boycey0211 · 27 Aug 2017 at 22:32

I've got the exact same setup as you bar having an i7 instead of 5. It gets hot/warm but doesn't overheat like yours, however I've had tracking issues a couple of times with it, like once or twice in the last year.

Can't remember how I sorted it sorry, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a hardware fault, it was related to the sensor tracking being way off for some bizarre reason.

I was using it on two sensors before getting an extension card but that made no difference really, it was just because I wanted to have my stick and throttles at the same time and ran out of usb slots

AgtX · 27 Aug 2017 at 22:49

After reading a little im maybe thinking its not over heating its dropping out because of the USB situation? I assumed it was over heating cause it just seems to shut off, screen goes black, orange light is on & then it wont come back on again unless I reboot.

hyperseven · 28 Aug 2017 at 05:53

AgtX said:
Any suggestions for usb3 cards that will work well?

The 'Inateck Superspeed 4 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card' seems to be a very popular choice (I am using the 2 port variant as already had it).

AgtX · 30 Aug 2017 at 15:47

I bought it & its fixed it all. Thanks everyone for the help & advice!

bazza64 · 3 Sep 2017 at 16:40

Ideapro cards work when the Inateck cards fail. in my opinion and experience.