Ok, looks like I need to get a wifi dongle/card for my desktop then, cheers.
Quest 2 Virtual Desktop Performance Thread
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Ok, looks like I need to get a wifi dongle/card for my desktop then, cheers.
Erm, nope you shouldn't need one. Or maybe I didn't understand your previous post. You have a wireless access point, a switch and Router for the internet? IF you have all those you don't need a dongle or a wifi card.
You connect your computer to the Wireless access point, then connect your Router and Access point to the switch. If your Wireless Access point only has one network port, then you connect your computer to the switch instead.
Is your Wireless Access point 5Ghz?
Yeah, it seems to work better for me with only the quest 2 on the 5GHz band. The way I did it was turn on mac address filtering and only allow the Quest 2 to connect. That way I don't even have to use a password on the 5Ghz network.
Thank you, will look into it at the weekend. On a side note, is MAC filtering worth it? I have a separate guest network but just a bog standard long ass password for my main WiFi network.
Apologies, I misunderstood and thus asked the wrong question. Thought you meant you also used MAC filtering in other parts of your home network (was curious if it was worth using in more normal use cases). I can definitely see the benefit in this case as my WiFi password is horrendously long
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It depends on yourself. I just think it's the easiest way. Turn on Mac Filtering, Put the Quest 2 mac address in, disable password. I don't think it's a requirement, though some people claim that the latency is lower when you use Mac filtering and turn off the password. I haven't any data to say that's true or not.
For me it was ease of use, as I had to reset my Quest 2 and didn't have to worry about putting the password in again.
I meant that my PC is connected via ethernet to a switch (same room) which is connected to my router via another switch in a different part of the house. This room doesn't get wifi signal so I also have a wireless access point plugged into the switch for phones/tablets. If I can use it in that configuration then great, otherwise I can either connect my PC directly to the AP or get a dongle/card to connect it wirelessly?
Sorry, got busy at work. How about you just tell me the make and model of your Wireless Access point? I can give better advice then.
Sorry, got busy at work. How about you just tell me the make and model of your Wireless Access point? I can give better advice then.
The one I have at the moment is cheap junk, not 5GHz. It'll be getting replaced with something much better for this so if you've got a recommendation that would be great
The one I have at the moment is cheap junk, not 5GHz. It'll be getting replaced with something much better for this so if you've got a recommendation that would be great
Well, if you need a Wireless access point anyway, You might consider The TP Link Archer AX10 or the Asus RT-AX55 They are both around the same price range if you look around. I use the RT-AX55 myself and it works great. Another option that some people here use is the Honor Router 3 and they seem pretty happy with it. It's cheaper than the other two. All these Routers are Wifi 6.
You could also go down the route of getting a PCIe Wifi 6 adapter card. It's the cheapest option, but I recommend you go for the routers above as you seem to need one to replace that "cheap junk" you have
and the creator of Virtual Desktop recommends connecting your Quest to your PC using a router. You can also get rid of the Switch in your room. So what you would do is, set your new router up as an Access point and put it in your room. Connect the Switch downstairs to it and connect the computer in your room to it also. After that setup the 2.5Ghz channel for use with mobile phones/tablets etc. Then setup the 5GHz channel for use with the Quest 2.
And then you are good to go
Soldato
GPU/CPU: 1080ti, 4790k
Router: T-P Link AX1500 (AX10) (5GHz)
Network Setup: Router on desk 1Gbps ethernet to PC and Quest within 5 meters
VD Reported Speed: 1200 Mbps
VD Streaming Settings: Quality - High, FPS - 90, Bitrate - 80, Sliced Encoding - On, Video Buffer Off, Auto Bitrate Off
VD Codec: H264
Other Settings: router set to AP mode, 2.4ghz off, 80mhz, manual channel
Desktop Latency: ~20ms
Game Latency:
-Beat Saber: 25-40ms
starts off great until I get into gameplay, I tried lowering in-game settings.. all my individual latencies seem ok but it just has trouble keeping 90fps and I see microstutter if I watch the blocks coming at me closely. a few bigger hitches.
I think my wifi signal is just too busy in this apartment building, all the ranges seem quite busy. pretty acceptable for slower paced games but not perfect.
I have a 5900x on backorder for almost 6 weeks now, wondering if that will help at all..
Router: T-P Link AX1500 (AX10) (5GHz)
Network Setup: Router on desk 1Gbps ethernet to PC and Quest within 5 meters
VD Reported Speed: 1200 Mbps
VD Streaming Settings: Quality - High, FPS - 90, Bitrate - 80, Sliced Encoding - On, Video Buffer Off, Auto Bitrate Off
VD Codec: H264
Other Settings: router set to AP mode, 2.4ghz off, 80mhz, manual channel
Desktop Latency: ~20ms
Game Latency:
-Beat Saber: 25-40ms
starts off great until I get into gameplay, I tried lowering in-game settings.. all my individual latencies seem ok but it just has trouble keeping 90fps and I see microstutter if I watch the blocks coming at me closely. a few bigger hitches.
I think my wifi signal is just too busy in this apartment building, all the ranges seem quite busy. pretty acceptable for slower paced games but not perfect.
I have a 5900x on backorder for almost 6 weeks now, wondering if that will help at all..
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I'd say try lowering video quality to medium as a 1080 is going to have a bit of a workout with it set to high. Also beatsaber isn't a game I'd want to play over wifi streaming as it needs zero latency.
I have a good setup and it works very well but I bought beatsaber for the quest as it is a much better experience on the native quest app, ymmv.
Will give that a shot, I just figured beat saber was a quick test which would show me problems instantly. I would like to use VD to play the 360 mode.. I haven't bought it (again) on quest because I have so many custom songs and mods on PC already.. I mostly play Synth Riders on quest directly tho. One issue I've noticed is when I'm in a game there isn't an easy way to quit out, normally you'd hit the oculus button and hit 'close' but now that brings you to the Quest 2 dash not the Rift dash.. you can hold down options button to get to the VD menu and hit quit but that closes everything back to quest as well.. am I missing something? I was using Oculus First Contact to test out the latency before and had to close everything to quit mid game..
p.s. I noticed there's a bunch of rtx 2070 owners who use High, are they actually better for VR performance finally? 1080ti should be somewhere around a 2070-2070super level of performance for pancake games.. with more vram.
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Sorry I misread as a bog standard 1080.
When using VD the way I close is by going to the VD menu and lcsoing the VR game there, as that is where it luanched from and is the only way to launch games from PC in VD isn't it?
What are you wanting to quit to that you can't?
Getting to the rift dash would onyl be useful if using the link? I've not bothered with the link yet as the wifi is good enough.
Not much help, sorry
Sorry I misread as a bog standard 1080.
When using VD the way I close is by going to the VD menu and lcsoing the VR game there, as that is where it luanched from and is the only way to launch games from PC in VD isn't it?
What are you wanting to quit to that you can't?
Getting to the rift dash would onyl be useful if using the link? I've not bothered with the link yet as the wifi is good enough.
Not much help, sorry
you're right, I realized I can just bring up the VD menu and there's now a circled X on the game so I can just quit it from there, great!
I did actually try going down to Medium quality and got about 5ms better so I suppose there is actually a pc performance bottleneck. I tried some oculus first contact and I had a major stutter where fps dropped waaaaaay down for a couple seconds. Tried Space Pirate Trainer via SteamVR and it worked totally flawless tho. If I just turn off the performance overlay I guess I don't notice as much. I'm not even sure what a 'good' latency is these days since the updates changed how that's reported old posts are no longer relevent it seems.
hopefully my new cpu/motherboard/ram upgrade helps with my stutters! common AMD hook me up
Hi all,
I got the Quest 2 for Christmas and as a big hater of cables I have bought the Honor 3 router so I could have an smooth wireless experience.
Unfortunately I get some shuttering while playing Alyx.
My set up is as follow:
My PC is a ryzen 3600x with a 3070.
Honor router connected by cable to the PC (gigabit) and 5ghz exclusively for oculus.
I have tried to play the game with oculus link and runs smooth as anything but VD is not behaving so nicely
Any suggestions? I have, tried with different codecs already, and lowering the bitrate to minimum on VD but no joy.
I got the Quest 2 for Christmas and as a big hater of cables I have bought the Honor 3 router so I could have an smooth wireless experience.
Unfortunately I get some shuttering while playing Alyx.
My set up is as follow:
My PC is a ryzen 3600x with a 3070.
Honor router connected by cable to the PC (gigabit) and 5ghz exclusively for oculus.
I have tried to play the game with oculus link and runs smooth as anything but VD is not behaving so nicely
Any suggestions? I have, tried with different codecs already, and lowering the bitrate to minimum on VD but no joy.
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Hi all,
I got the Quest 2 for Christmas and as a big hater of cables I have bought the Honor 3 router so I could have an smooth wireless experience.
Unfortunately I get some shuttering while playing Alyx.
My set up is as follow:
My PC is a ryzen 3600x with a 3070.
Honor router connected by cable to the PC (gigabit) and 5ghz exclusively for oculus.
I have tried to play the game with oculus link and runs smooth as anything but VD is not behaving so nicely
Any suggestions? I have, tried with different codecs already, and lowering the bitrate to minimum on VD but no joy.
I had a very similar problem, I fixed this by clicking on the Half-Life program on the pc to make sure it was in front of other programs, if I'd VD or other programs at the front I would get stutter.
Strange issue but this fixed it.
Folks, I want to use my PC wifi onboard as a hot spot but the 5GHz is not allowing to be enabled, it says "The selected network band isnt available" Select a different band and try again.
Thsi is a WiFi 6 AX201 160MHz Wifi capability, presumably this could be capable of connecting at 1200Mbs?
I would be grateful for your insights.
Thsi is a WiFi 6 AX201 160MHz Wifi capability, presumably this could be capable of connecting at 1200Mbs?
I would be grateful for your insights.
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