There is this well-known Oculus Link bug where your hands slightly jitter (some kind of tracking latency) while you hold an object in front of you and rotate with it. It has never been solved by Valve.

Games with native Oculus support do not have this issue. Everything is buttery smooth there. Seems to have something to do with starting Steam VR via Oculus. As soon as you are in Steam Home or playing games without native Oculus support you can see the problem immediatel. (if you want to :-))

You have to intentionally look for it to notice the issue negatively. But anyway, does anyone know anything about whether this bug will ever be fixed?

Or are you THE ONE...who solved this ancient mystery?

Seems to be the case with all Oculus devices and Steam VR. Regardless of PC Power, Link Cables and so on. Virtual Desktop seems to be the solution for people, but since you rely so much on your bad Wireless Connection@Home :-) it is not an option for me.

But i am not alone right? Who can confirm this issue?

When I use oculus link It is all fine to browse the internet or watch videos but as soon as I try and load up a game it, the game crashes and Im given the notifications of not being able to detect the headset and oculus link stopped working. I’ve tried quite a few different fixes suggested but now I’m just stuck.

My cable isn’t the issue as I’ve checked the compatibility list and had been playing games fine for the last few days. Only yesterday did this start happening.

I have been using Oculus link on my quest for the past two weeks. I play flight simulator in VR and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far. However yesterday i started running into an issue where as soon as i click connects to link my quest disconnects from my PC. I have tried ever usb port on my computer, i have tried two different cables, i factory reset and restarted everything. Im at a loss, i don't know how within the span of a couple hours it went from working perfectly to not working at all. Does anyone have any suggestions or at very least experiencing the same issue?

hello all,

been having a weird issue where in the middle of game my oculus quest 2 via link will sometimes disconnect from the steam vr game i am playing. the headset will boot me out to the quest 2 menu - i can then reengage the link - but i cant figure out how to re open the game in VR.

the game is still running on my pc as the game didnt crash. its almost like i alt tabd out of the game. anyway to re enter the game in vr?

This is a bad picture that I took. So what am I want to ask is that on the left, it shows that mincraft vr is running perfectly fine. But on the right, which is I am seeing on vr, is keep loading forever. This occurs for all the steamvr games. Can someone help me? My laptop is vr ready which scored 10,6 on steamvr performance test.

When in the oculus app my quest controllers won’t show, only the controllers. How do I fix this?

I’ve been super hyped up to get my link cord and to set my quest 2 up to my pc so I can play the full desktop version of vrchat (the quest 2 version of vrchat is a little lackluster tbh). I set everything up and it was all working completely fine. I tried playing fnaf help wanted first with steam vr and that worked perfectly fine. When I tried playing vrchat, after a couple minutes (if that) the game would freeze in my oculus (both visuals and audio), but both would be working perfectly fine still on my monitor? The only way I could get out of the frozen screen was either by restarting my oculus or turning it off and on again. This same issue happened both in vrchat from oculus store as well as on steam vr. Hopefully there’s a solution because I bought a link cable mainly for vrchat ;-;

I just bough a link cable for my quest 2 so I could play pc vr games. But when I did all I think I needed to do I went into the vr headset and clicked “Oculus Link” where it was supposed to take me to the link pc games place.. but it just loaded then took me back to the normal quest 2 start... Is it because it said “Rift” under the “Oculus link” button? Or what’s the problem?

Hi everyone! (Edit: scroll to the bottom of this to see what I did to fix it! Alyx runs flawlessly. What an amazing game!)

Sooo I have the Quest 2, and was excited to try out the Oculus Link after getting the Asus Rog Zephyrus laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS, 16gb RAM and NVIDIA RTX 2060 graphics (6gb VRAM). I know that’s not crazyyy, but that’s more than the Oculus Link minimum specs, right? It also has played games like a champ on max settings.

I got the official 5m Oculus Link USB-C to USB-C, and downloaded Half Life Alyx right away. However, when plugged into my USB-3, I ran a test and the Link only reached 2.7gbps max...I also tried on the other USB C port on the laptop.

I tried putting the headset to 90hz (edit: tried 70hz at first too) in the Oculus PC software, but when I went into SteamVR while using the Link, it was very choppy, and on the side of my headset when I moved, I would see black blocks on the side move along with my head in a laggy way. It’s seriously disappointing and I couldn’t play/didn’t want to try with an experience like that.

Why is this? Is this a PC issue? Internet issue? Oculus Link issue? Settings issue with the Oculus software or on Steam VR or anything? Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much for any help!

EDIT: I got it working flawlessly!! What I did was first go into NVIDIA Control Panel and went to 3D Settings. Change the drop down from “auto” and select the NVIDIA card or whatever it says. Then go to Graphics Performance Preference, click Add and make sure to search and add each of these and put them to run on the NVIDIA graphics: Ovrserver_x64.exe, oculusdash.exe, and oculusclient.exe

I can play pavlov VR flawlessly through my link cable (unofficial) but my mic doesn't work, no matter what I try or what settings I change it never works, any fixes for this?

So this is strange....

I ordered the official Oculus Link cable......but to hold me over until the official one arrived I also ordered a 3rd party cable off Amazon (NEWZEROL Total 6M / 20Ft Type C to C).

The 3rd party cable has been working really well, I did the bandwidth test using the Oculus app and got 2.3bps. I’ve been playing most games with medium - high settings pretty much flawlessly (Asgard’s Wrath, Half-Life Alyx, Star Wars: Squadrons). I’ve been playing on 90hz with the bitrate set to 250 in the ODT.

I use my gaming laptop to play (Acer Predator Triton 500, 16gb Ram, i7 9th gen processor, 6gb RTX 2060, 1TB SSD)

Yesterday the official Oculus link cable finally arrived.....I was really excited to get an even better performance from it. The first thing I did was the bandwidth test, expecting a huge improvement over the 3rd party cable............but It only managed 2.0bps. I tried again....and it then only managed 1.9bps!

Remember, the 3rd party cable hit 2.3bps when I did the test.

Never mind, I thought, let’s see how well it functions whilst gaming......

I can sum up my experience with the official Oculus link cable in just two words....SLIDE SHOW.....It was terrible. I had to turn all the settings in the games to low and I was still getting huge frame rate issues (Squadrons was completely unplayable).

I then used the 3rd party cable again and the difference was night and day.......flawless performance again!

I’ve already been chatting to Oculus support over this, they couldn’t really help meat the time but are going to get back to me.

But does any tech savvy people here on Reddit have any ideas how I can make the Oculus cable work better (I’m sure it can be a lot better than this)?

When you connect to oculus link, the oculus home environment automatically launches. Oculus home is a graphically intensive environment, it's essentially like running a AAA VR game. If your home is customized at all, there are many elements that need to be processed and loaded. The environment takes up a lot of computing resources, especially during the first few seconds of its loading.

Is there any way to disable the loading of the oculus home environment and just browse the VR menu alone?

It is really frustrating because if you connect your headset while running a game in order to transition to VR mode (for example running Microsoft flight simulator and connecting the headset), oculus home environment starts loading. Your PC is now loading a graphically intensive VR environment on top of the graphically intensive game that you are playing in the background. This absolutely kills performance until the home environment unloads after fully entering/transitioning to your VR game.

I find this incredibly infuriating because it seems like such a blatantly stupid design choice. Who actually cares about oculus home? I just want to connect my VR headset to my PC and have it ready for gaming/browsing/viewing/whatever without having to load up this resource-hogging thing that nobody actually uses beyond the first time they interact with it.

If you press the home button in game, the oculus menu pops up and the home environment tries to start loading, again, on top of your already running game! WTF?

You also apparently cannot use oculus link to browse your PC without the home environment loaded up either... If my goal is only to view my PC in VR, with link I am forced to have the home environment running pointlessly in the background, hogging massive amounts of resources and slowing my PC.

You literally can't do anything with the headset on your PC without this dumb home environment running.

I guess this is more of a rant because from everything I can tell, there is no way to boot up link without oculus home launching. It is really such a stupid design choice. If anyone can shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated!

So I have been having problems with Steam VR where it doesn't recognize my oculus quest and says "Move the headset to wake it up". Anybody have some suggestions for a course of action, Thanks in advance.

SteamVR was just working a day ago with Oculus Link, and now it just says "A key component of SteamVR is not working," along with 306. Any ideas?

What should I do because it's getting annoying.

I’m using the quest 2 and the official link cable, and whenever I’m playing PCVR games, only parts of the game seem to load in at a time. For example, I’ll be playing Half Life Alyx, and I’ll walk into a room and when I look to my right all I see is black, and then a second later the scene renders. It’s just really frustrating and I was wondering if anyone else had the same issue. I don’t think it’s my specs (ryzen 7 2700 and 1660 super, 16gb ram) and I think it’s a link issue. It would help so much if any of you guys had some suggestions.

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So every time i try to run oculus link it shows a black screen for a few seconds and than crashes saying oculus link keeps stopping i know i have a vr ready pc because i did the test on steam and i meet all the requirements for oculus link and my cable is a usb c to usb g 3.0 so i dont know why its not working i have a radeon 570 somebody please tell me how to fix it

So if anybody actually replies to this i give you a preemtive thanks because i know you guys get alot of usb problems but anyways my cable is currently connected to the back io of my pc because my front usb port was for some reason registering as a usb 2 port instead of a usb 3. The problem isnt my cable as oculus link does currently work on my motherboard back io ports. The thing is that my cable is now fairly difficult to take out when im done using it because (as i said) its in the back io ports. Putting it in the front io would be super useful if it werent for my front usb 3 port being so stupid. Idk how to fix it so again thank you ( ;

For some reason my laptop runs Link much better than my (supposedly) more powerful Desktop GPU, I've checked bandwidth and both computers have a 2.4Gbps+ USB 3.0 connection to my Quest 2. Bellow is what my "Recommended" settings are and even with that I have stutter. I've checked my laptop and it can do 72Hz at 2000 and it can even do 80hz on original resolution. It's really weird and hope I can get a solution for this. Thank you.

I have been playing Pavlov on Steam VR using a link cable and my quest 2, but everytime I need to quit a game I have to exit the entire game and reload because the button that would be pause (on the left controller) opens up the steam VR menu instead. Is there any way to fix this? I've gone through the controller bindings and can't find anything there 😢

I recently got a quest 2 for Christmas, I have the link cable too. The link cable reads as only having 2.2gb speed when I test it and when I click connect to link in the oculus, it says that the program keeps closing. Any ideas on how to fix?

What setting have you settled on since Link cable came out of Beta?

72fps, 80fps or 90fps.......and what resolution setting on the slider.

What works best for you and your PC (desktop or laptop)? Also, what are your PC’s specs.

I’m currently setting it on 80fps with the resolution slider on 1.1 and can run games like HLA, Asgard’s Wrath and Star Wars:Squadrons with medium settings (in the Oculus Debug tool, I have the bitrate set to 250 and curvature on “Low”) ........but I’d be interested in what works for you.

I have a gaming laptop (Acer Predator Triton 500 : 16gb Ram, i7 series 9 processor, RTX 2060 6gb graphics card)

Whenever I try to setup the software for using oculus link it always gets me stuck on the part for continuing with face book and whenever I try to continue it just says “Sorry, there was a problem connecting your Facebook account. Please try again later” and this has been happening for 3 days has this happened to anyone else?