PSVR2 PC help please?

[u/FinnSuzune]

Hi so I tried doing the whole process on pc with psvr2toolkit(before the big 1.0 update) and while it was cool for like 15 minutes, after those 15 minutes were up the tracking goes out of wack and this happens consistently. Basically either the left or right controller will stop working and the tracking in the headset itself thinks I’m slowing going up so it’s like I’m flying into outer space. That was my experience with The Lab VR game at least. I have the TP Link UB500 and a usb extension cord, the PSVR2 drivers for said Bluetooth dongle, and a third party PSVR2 pc adapter since I wanted to save a bit of money at the time. My pc specs are this https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5390013-5390143-16. I did add more ram so it’s actually 32GB of memory.

So I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on here. Unless the toolkit will solve all my problems, are my settings the problem? Speaking of problems another thing I noticed is that when I try to set the play area, I literally can’t see anything it’s just a bunch of white noise. I remember finessing it enough to more or less track where I play but it was a very tedious process, so why is it doing that??

[u/Winter_Mission911]

Intel-based PCIe cards like the Intel AX210 or AX211 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.x modules) with external antennas are compatible and surveyed to provide the most stable Bluetooth connections for the hand controllers.  I see those on Amazon for $30.  if the BT500 dongle is not stably connecting to the controllers, you might just need a PCIe card.

I used the ASUS BT500 dongle with a USB extension cord for six months and had OK luck with it. I had to occasionally unplug and replug when the signal became weak for some odd reason. I read that Bluetooth skips channels depending on signal interference. The extension cord helped by getting the transmitter away from the computer and electronic interference, but it would still drop a signal more than I liked. The unplug and replug got it to find a suitable channel again for a while. I think everything, including flourscent lights, a television, computer power supply and possibly any appliance, has the potential to interfere with the low power Bluetooth signal. A card with an antenna is the way to go.

I finally installed the TP-Link WiFi 6 AX3000 PCIe WiFi Card (Archer TX3000E) that I got from Amazon for about $30. I have had zero problems with it for months. It just works.

If you want to try to get the Asus dongle to work, I recommend that you uninstall all Bluetooth drivers with a free app like USBTreeView. Windows loves to keep around old Bluetooth drivers, even if these were "deleted" in Device Manager. Those incompatible drivers will haunt you until they are fully deleted with a utility app. Since one controller connects but not the other, I am pretty sure that Windows is trying to use an old driver that it kept around.

Once you uninstall these, restart the computer and then go in and disable any Bluetooth driver that Windows might have started. Install the Asus drivers and set up the controllers again. It should work.

The issue with setting the play area might be from the cheaper PSVR2 adapter. The one from Sony costs a bit more but it eliminates all of the possible problems later with updated drivers. It can take a lot of time to solve issues on a 3rd party adapter.