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Insider Program Destroys Steam VR Compatibility for Windows Mixed Reality
Hey Digitydogs,
You may be pleased to know that as of last week's major update, I've been able to get Steam VR to "occasionally" work by toggling Steam VR's "beta" mode (right click on Steam VR in Steam and it's under "Properties"). I got Steam VR Home to boot and Google Earth VR.
Everything in the Windows Cliff House and Windows App Store works flawlessly (Arizona Sunshine)...and yet they have the gall to add a "Steam VR" advertisement to the latest WMR build! It doesn't work yet, guys!
Still too frustrating to recommend on a Windows Insider machine as of 1/13/19!
(Also disclaimer, none of these issues happen on my Desktop Windows 10 PC which IS NOT an Insider Preview Build computer)
As in it was installed last night.
Completely ruined my vr experience and I'm not exactly on a modest machine (8 core 4.2, 16G ram, 6GB 1060 graphics)
Cliff house takes 3 times as long to load and is choppy as hell, getting an average of 45 frames in vrmark, before the insider build 120 fps was my average.
I'm not sure what they did to wmr but it's a game changer and not in a good way.
Appreciate the heads up! I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Likewise. My laptop (the problem computer) is packing a 970GTXM, 8 core 3.3, 16 ram...running all apps off of an SSD >:( I, too, have had a drop in performance in the Cliff House since the update that added the Steam VR ads.
Hoping somebody hears our cries sooner than later- Upside for me, windows allowed me to roll back to the stable non insider build so I'm back to a fully functional vr experience, minus the left controller battery life problem that seems to plague about 90% of us wmr users.
ah! Great idea rolling back Windows. I'm unable to do so on my laptop...so I'll have to tough this update period out :/