USB Card Issues

[joshyjames]

I purchased an Inateck usb card to improve my tracking for oculus rift and I recently figured out that it was the source of my frame lag in game. Simply having the card installed into the pcie slot dropped frames while playing to unplayable levels. I can’t really find anything related to my situation online so this is pretty much my last resort. As it stands right now I can either lag and have really good tracking or not lag and have mediocre tracking.

if it matters my specs are:
Ryzen 5 2600x
X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING
gigabyte windforce oc 1060 3gb
evga supernova g2 850 W
Running on Windows 10

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon..

@Evan Omo jmarket

[jmarket]

Rules prevent me from linking external forums, but Google is your friend. There is a thread out there called “My Oculous Rift is lagging” on the OculusVR forums. The guy had the same issues and specs as you.

Here’s a summary of what was said:

• USB 2.0 will compress and lower your resolution and framerate.
• Inateck USB expansions are problematic, some Startech expansions are better.
• Inateck 4-port USB expansion is supposedly better than other Inateck expansions.
• 1060 3GB is “low-end” for the Oculus, and a 1070 8GB is recommended.

[joshyjames]

So, I did get the 4 port inateck card. I’ve also confirmed it’s not a performance issue with my pc. The only game I play in VR is beat saber which uses <50% of my gpu and 50% max of my cpu. I’m also not using anything in USB 2.0 regarding the rift. idk if there are any settings or if the pcie slot matters for the card.

[jmarket]

And no USB splitters, right? You may want to get in touch with Oculus. Or if you think your Inateck card was DOA, you may want to get a replacement while you can, assuming you bought it recently with a return/exchange policy.

[joshyjames]

Return window passed unfortunately. Something happened recently and tracking is just awful in general. It’s seriously amazing how inconsistent oculus tracking is.

[jmarket]

Yeah, I’ve heard some particularly awful things about Oculus. Have you installed the most recent Inateck drivers from the product’s official support site? Are your Nvidia graphics drivers up-to-date? Are you using GeForce Experience?

[joshyjames]

Pretty sure I installed the drivers when I got the card although I don’t have the card installed right now. Everything is up to date and yeah I’m using geforce experience.

[joshyjames]

I’m hoping once I upgrade my gpu that somehow solves my issues.

[jmarket]

Some people claim GeForce Experience causes some extra input lag and lesser framerate, but I personally haven’t experienced that.

Barring that, I don’t know what else I can say about the issue. Hopefully it’s as simple as needing better GPU performance. Good luck.

[veeg]

Any updates?

[joshyjames]

Nope. Issue still persists and I am not using the card anymore.

[veeg]

@Evan Omo @Bruce

[joshyjames]

I’ve been wanting to try it again but haven’t found the time yet because I’ve been really busy with school.

[jmarket]

If you still want to, I can walk you through some stress testing on your parts.

Any failure of these stress tests will indicate a faulty component.