Vive wireless adapter causes stuttering

[Tits on Toast]

I have recently setup the wireless adapter for my standard htc vive and now everything stutters like crazy. Even when I first load into my vive home it sutters and pixelates even even though everything seems to be installed correctly. Specs are a 1080 and an i7-8700k CPU. Any ideas on how to stop the stuttering?

[Pelzgurke]

So I got the same problem as the thread starter. I7-6700k, 16 gb ram, 2080ti in a Z170 mobo. Win 10 updated, latest BIOS and drivers. Tested all PCIE slots so far to no avail. Starting SteamVR will max out the CPU, resulting in a reprojection rate of 50%. I am testing with "In Death" at 100% resolution, no supersampling. At this point I am quite frustrated, the wireless freedom is great, but to me it does not outweigh the choppy framerate. Tomorrow I will try with the cable and I will measure the power consumption. I have a 550 watt unit, maybe that is maxed out with the new GPU (old one was a 1080). I am open to any new suggestions, really bummed out.

[hunter]

Yeah, same problem as OP. I7-4790, 1080, 32GB. Stutters really bad when I move my head; everything was smooth as silk wired. I can't switch slots; I have two 16x and one 1x; neither my GPU nor my NVMe drive will go in the 1x, so that's the only place for the wimax.

Really disappointing, been super excited to go wireless for months. But it's pretty much unusable right now...gameplay suffers, but the main thing is if you keep it on for more than about 5 minutes it produces a wicked headache. Never had any problems at all with hours of wired gameplay.

Obviously would love any thoughts on the matter before I send it back.

[Drge]

Haven't experienced headaches myself - but as with the OP I get microstutters every few seconds. Less noticeable on untaxing games but more frequeent on others.

When I first got the wireless unit it would disconnect completely randomly and the headset would turn off after showing a pale blue screen for a minute - the only remedy for that has been to disable the Camera on the headset in the SteamVR settings. If you havent tried disabling the camera yet - give it a try, it should improve the wireless performance.

Though like say I still see the stutters every few seconds or if turning my head fast, its like the screen sticks for a microsecond but just long enough for my brain to go ARRGH :P

[--ranXerox--]

I dropped my supersampling 20% due to micro stutters only for intense game. I could not notice a drop in visual quality because I use a vive pro.

[Wasted Potential]

Just want to say I have micro-stutters as well. I-5 6600k with GTX 1070.

[Tits on Toast]

even when I load into my vive home it stutters when i turn my head. Having the wireless adapter seriously can't take that much of a performance hit? If i had to guess it's something to do with the wireless signal.

[--ranXerox--]

Make sure everything is updated on it. I have issues too! my vive wireless would simply not work on a 1x or 4x but works fine at 16x pci-e. I'm too lazy to find out the "why it doesnt work" part.

[3-Pio (DQHD)]

Hi,

I've had this problem for weeks after upgrading to 9900K+Z390. Constant stuttering and reprojection. I tried every pcie slots to no avail.

Until one evening, I entered the BIOS and set all pcie mode from Auto to Gen3. Voila! Sharp images and butter smooth experience. I was almost gonna return the adapter be4 trying this.

Hope this helps.

The logic behind this is that some motherboard registered the Wigig card as an Intel Network adapter, which makes the BIOS think gen1 or maybe gen2 mode is enough for it. However, the card needs to work @ gen3 to get enough bandwidth for its hispeed wireless projection.

Cheers,

[--ranXerox--]

Nice find. I'll play with the settings see if I can run mines in a 1x slot.

[Tits on Toast]

Hey it was a nice idea but changing it to gen 3 hasn't fixed it. Might just get a refund because i've tried every other trick in the book. I cannot think of any reason why it would be stuttering and pixelated every few seconds.

[3-Pio (DQHD)]

From what I know, the wireless thingy is pretty CPU intensive as it needs the GPU to render the object in 3D while the CPU handles the image compression before sending it wirelessly thru the adapter. But according to your OP, it seems both your CPU and GPU should be more than sufficient handling both jobs.

So if it still stutters quite often, you'll have to make sure there wasn't anything in particular running in the background as you game, such as update installtion, game download, workshop download etc. You can also load up your task manager and see if any process keeps taking up your CPU or disk usage. I know quite a few critter apps do this, e.g: nvidia container, malicious software removal, windows defender or even the freaking system interrupts.

[3-Pio (DQHD)]

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Nice find. I'll play with the settings see if I can run mines in a 1x slot.

Would love to hear your result!

[--ranXerox--]

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Nice find. I'll play with the settings see if I can run mines in a 1x slot.

Would love to hear your result!

I have a z170x gaming 7 gigabyte motherboard.

In bios, I enabled "above 4g decoding"
I can now use vive wireless on a 1x slot.

Very interesting huh!

[Peteo]

So SteamVR Beta just had an update and people with HTC's wireless adapter are reporting better performance. Check it out
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/9yvf02/new_steamvr_beta_completely_resolve_performance/

[Jarilo]

It has improved general performance. however I still get stutters and jitters. It's better in some games, but something like budget cuts that runs flawless wired is stuttering and jittering in areas at even the lowest of low super sampling settings on wireless.