My G2 goes to sleep

[moggel]

I have sort of a potato PC (16Gb RAM) and, so, when I found a G2 I didn't really expect to be able to use it until my new PC arrives. To my surprise I've been having a pleasent experience both in DCS and MSFS2020. My settings aren't super high, og course, and I do get the occasional stutter but overall it's been working ok. One thing, though, is bugging me. Often when I play DCS the VR goes black. I can still see on the monitor and the headset is tracking fine but the VR "monitors" goes black and don't come back.

I never see this behavior in MSFS2020, only in DCS (SteamVR). 

 

Anyone else seen this, or have any ideas what's going on?

[dburne]

15 minutes ago, moggel said:

I have sort of a potato PC (16Gb RAM) and, so, when I found a G2 I didn't really expect to be able to use it until my new PC arrives. To my surprise I've been having a pleasent experience both in DCS and MSFS2020. My settings aren't super high, og course, and I do get the occasional stutter but overall it's been working ok. One thing, though, is bugging me. Often when I play DCS the VR goes black. I can still see on the monitor and the headset is tracking fine but the VR "monitors" goes black and don't come back.

I never see this behavior in MSFS2020, only in DCS (SteamVR). 

 

Anyone else seen this, or have any ideas what's going on?

 

Try a different USB Port. Powered Hubs are good for this. I have two powered USB 3  Hubs with individual on/off switches I run all my flight sim peripherals and VR through. By powered I mean the Hub has it's own electrical cord to plug in.

Also in Device Manager insure all your USB's have " allow to sleep" disabled. I go through and set all mine that way. Inevitably a Windows update will come along and reset those, so best to check after getting a Windows update.

Edited August 26, 2021 by dburne

[Munkwolf]

Along with powered hub (or plugging directly into motherboard usb port), I'm wondering if it might be a power setting thing?

 

Under windows power options, do you have your computer set to high performance? under additional power options is usb selective suspend turned off? In device manager, under mixed reality devices it should list headset, and under it's power management tab, is the 'allow windows to turn off this device to save power' setting unchecked? That same setting is available for other usb devices too

Edited August 26, 2021 by Munkwolf

[moggel]

I have now disabled Windows powering off my USB hubs in DM. Let's see if that helps.

[dburne]

1 hour ago, moggel said:

I have now disabled Windows powering off my USB hubs in DM. Let's see if that helps.

 

Hope so - certainly can't hurt.