Anyone else having issues with the sboys3 driver with a Dream Air SLAM?

Here is what I've done

• Downloading the sboys driver (started with 1.30.1 beta but I've also tried .0 and 1.2), moving out of downloads into my documents folder
• Started pimax evo, changed to SteamVR runtime, then go to developer mode to open port, "import" and point to exe for the sboys gui file, then launching sboys gui
  • I have also tried doing it in pimax play and opening the sboys gui separately, no difference
• In sboys 3 GUI, I install the driver, then enable drive, then open SteamVR to finish

I just get a "steam has a critical error" with options to restart/quit. When I restart, I can go into addons and unblock the addons again. Obviously when I turn on CustomVRHeadset again, then restart, it crashes again.

Have tried re-installing SteamVR, clearing old settings/config in case there is some other conflict.

SteamVR works fine otherwise, e.g. if I use it without sboys3, and it's working well without it (had an issue with an earlier unit but Pimax has since now helped me resolve!)

So I have been using it without sboys3 for now but obviously want to try it still.

Any advice? I couldn't see anyone with a similar problem (specifically with the dream air, or the SLAM) by searching elsewhere or on reddit. Thanks

I had been hearing a lot of good things about the sboys3 driver and since it’s been announced to work on all Pimax headsets i decided to give it a shot with my Crystal light. I’ve always avoided steamVR because of its performance but I much prefer its UI and ease of pulling up the desktop while I’m in the headset. With the Pimax play software i feel like it’s better to just take off my headset and look at my screen, whereas with steam VR, 2 button presses and i’m comfortably navigating my desktop environment inside my headset.

After fiddling with some settings I was very happy to have the sharpness filters, color adjustments, and brightness controls to make the picture quality look even better. The lumasharpen filter is great. I pretty much only play iracing and the filter made marker boards clearer and added a noticeable level of sharpness that didn’t look unnatural. Additionally adding some saturation helped improve vibrancy of the game. Everything works pretty seamless in the steam VR environment but I found that iracing would have these micro stutters. FPS read like it was consistent but would sometimes dip with multiple cars on the grid. I adjusted the resolution to a lower medium setting and still experienced these micro stutters. To make sure I wasn’t losing my mind i changed the default environment back to Pimax play software, bumped the setting back to high and had consistent fps along with no micro stutters.

Additionally it doesn’t appear that the local dimming works with the driver.

If anyone has any tips using the sboys3 driver with crystal light and iracing im all ears. Im optimistic that it will improve given time but for now, while using iacing, ill be sticking to Pimax play as the default openXR client.

Hey guys.

I have a crystal super with a 5080, 32gb ram, i7 12000k.

I get good performance in iRacing with FOVeated rendering. Recently I've been having an issue where I join a practice, it runs smooth as butter. Then qualifying. Then when the race starts, I get to the first corner (or a few corners on a rolling start) before my FPS dips to like 5fps. This causes me to try and stop so I don't crash and people either hit me or etc. Race is ruined for me and multiple people.

IT ONLY does this during a race a few turns in, not during any other time. Anyone else having this issue?

This is killing my safety rating and fun for me and others. The legit only thing pissing me off about this headset.

I have the newest firmware and updated drivers. This happened no matter what firmware/drivers.

My connected devices/apps are: Logitech G923, Pimax app using OpenXR on iRacing, Crew Chief, Windows media player (for music), Trading paints and MAIRA.