The meta headset borkdate thread.

[Mercurial]

You would think that they would test it before release.

You would, but the attitude seems to be Meta can turn round and offer a "discount" on new (read refurbed) hardware to replace what their mandatory (for all intents and purposes) update has just binned and think job done. It costs to do QA testing, and if a few customers take a hit, then too bad.

I'm starting to dread every time I update my headset.

 

[Ravenger]

I'm starting to dread every time I update my headset.

Welcome to the Club. Quest Pro owners have been dreading updates for about a year now. The headset and controllers has been broken many times, and faulty updates pushed out to the public even after users on the test channel had warned the same updates had major problems.

I've actually disabled the update service on my headset until a new stable one is released.

 

[Mercurial]

It’s a crazy way to carry on. The thing that concerns me about disabling updates is the issue that happened around Christmas when users who hadn’t updated for few versions bricked their devices updating to latest firmware.

Also on a tangent; if it weren’t for VR (primarily the Meta software) I could dump Windows 11 on my main machine which is another source of annoyance as I so seldom boot into it, all the housekeeping tasks kick off, so a quick go turns into an hour while it sorts itself out. End rant.

 

[Ravenger]

It’s a crazy way to carry on. The thing that concerns me about disabling updates is the issue that happened around Christmas when users who hadn’t updated for few versions bricked their devices updating to latest firmware.

Also on a tangent; if it weren’t for VR (primarily the Meta software) I could dump Windows 11 on my main machine which is another source of annoyance as I so seldom boot into it, all the housekeeping tasks kick off, so a quick go turns into an hour while it sorts itself out. End rant.

Same here, if not for VR I'd be going Linux. The Steamdeck has shown me it's a viable gaming platform.

 

[DD_Crash]

I have never liked Windows, I loved the Amiga. I only stick with Windows because the software (combat flight sim and photo editing) needs it.

 

[Trig]

OOoo the money I spent on my 1200 over the years, gave it to a mate in the end that runs the RCM...

 

[Ravenger]

OOoo the money I spent on my 1200 over the years, gave it to a mate in the end that runs the RCM...

I was given a 1200 and I stupidly gave it away as I didn't have room for it at the time.

 

[DD_Crash]

Bit o/t I ended up putting it in a tower case and adding an 040 with 16 MB ram. Oh and a amd 500mhz cpu lived in the same case and the Miggy was far nicer to work on and booted a lot quicker.