Wasted Potential

They can be directly opposite each other. But tracking works best if at diagonals. Basically, think of them like Laser shotguns shooting out light rays.. if they are directly opposite each other on your sides.. the front and back tracking won't be 100% perfect because it can be obscured. You also want them to bathe you in the light rays, so it is important that they are far enough apart and aimed a bit down so they can catch the controllers wherever they go. But the headsets and controllers, etc.. are pretty good at tracking even when obscured for short periods.. so I would bet you'll have no issues.

Good news. I got your exact specs and my Vive works like a champ. You won't be able to use the HTC Vive wireless adapter (I think the i5 just isn't powerful enough so it has some issues) but otherwise everything runs great. With a more powerful PC you could oversample, etc.. but every game will run with high or ultra settings without issue (except maybe Skyrim with mods and Fallout). As for Hot Dogs.. I got it but haven't played it long.. what I did play it seemed to be fine.

Does anyone have a relatively new fully working Vive Wireless setup? If so, can you post specs? I am prepared to buy a new computer for this to work.. but I want it to work.. not be another computer that stutters in wireless. The most frustrating thing is.. even if you get a state of the art new computer, there seems to be no guarantee.

I was in wireless VR with the desktop showing and I noticed the Vive Wireless app had a circle with a I on it. Taking off the headset, I think I right clicked on the circled I and it said an update was available. I closed out of VR, etc.. and then ran it. Don't know if you need to close out, etc... but I did. After the update, I went right back in and it seems to be better. Now the bad news. It does work better for me.. but now I got the condition where you lose tracking every 3 minutes or so for a split second (the whole screen goes grey). Still that is a lot better than what I had before.

I installed the new update for Vive Wireless and it is now MUCH improved and working probably exactly as it should be. I tried loading up a few games and I think I am a happy Viver again. I'm thinking it must have been a conflict between drivers, hardware, etc... that the newest update fixes.. as I tried EVERYTHING short of replacing hardware. And yeah, mine pegged the VR READY status too, lol! Anyway.. good luck peeps.. Hopefully the new update fixes your issues or the next one will. What was so frustrating for me was, even people with extremely new systems had this issue.. so you took a risk buying your way out of it. I just hope my issues with wireless are behind me, as I didn't play long and still need to hook back up the old Vive connector box so I can use the phone connection. But I wanted to spread the word that after the new update to VIve Wireless.. I was able to play for awhile with no real issues. So don't loose hope..

Same issue as you all... choppy performance.. SteamVR reports tons of reprojection occuring. I am almost at my wits end.. and will try reloading Windows 10 64 bit from scratch this weekend before giving up and going back to wired and returning the wireless adapter. CPU: i5 6600K MB: ASRock Z170A-X1/3.1 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 SATA GPU: Nvidia Gtx1070 Tried all slots, removed every program from Windows I could.. got all bars in the wireless app.. yet I drop frames. Ugh!

I highly recommend OPENVR ADVANCED SETTINGS. This is a small program you can download find and download from GitHub that adds a ton of abilities. One of the better ones is the ability to save your chaperone settings to selectable presets and also make them invisible if you want. So for example, I have 3 pre-sets. Standing (Chaperone appears when near edge). Standing with center marker (Chaperon appears when near edge and a constant marker is on the center floor of my play space, thus making finding the middle of the play area easy). And Sitting (Chaperone is invisible, because for me, my sitting area is outside my play space). But it can do many other things too... Have fun.

Same here. And it's getting so bad I think after this month I'll cancel my subscription because quite frankly, I CAN'T FIND THE NEW GAMES! Not only that, but do I really need to be reminded daily that I caved in and tried that horrible Olympics VR title once a long time ago? I love Viveport.. but not being able to clean up your library is just too much. I get the idea of subscription titles or others hanging around in your library for say, 10 days or so. Just in case your like, I wish I didn't delete that one game..what was it called? But after 10 days, come on.. clean this mess up. P.s. The simple solution would be to allow us to HIDE items. This would solve all my issues.

Just an update on my saga: The new controller I bought works perfectly. So probably not software after all. Good luck on your issue. I will be ripping my old controller apart at some point and will try to do an investigation.. I'll let you know what I find, if I find anything. Since mine worked sporadically near the end.. I am thinking it might maybe simply be a bad/loose ribbon cable as seen in this video. I've ripped apart and fixed many a laptop, etc.. so this is child's play for me. If it is this for me, like in the video, then I bet your's is the same as well and then you could simply take your controller to a laptop or phone repair place, show them the video, and get them to fix it. What they show in the video, I would think any electronics repair place should be able to do.

Well did you try what I suggested? It fixed my left blue light controller for very short while. With SteamVR open, reset the broken controller via usb with a cable long enough to be in the tracked area. Then unplug and try to pair it. If I did that a bunch of times.. I could get it to work eventually for very short bit. And yes, my right controller and the rest of the gear all worked perfectly during this whole time. Also like you, my left also got lost occassionally beforehand. I just find it odd that mine was left too, got lost too, had a blue light too, and would originally work for a short bit after doing software related things (reset). It easily could be hardware.. but it still could be software too. I am getting my new controller delivered today... so I should be able to rip apart my old one soon. Hopefully the post mortem will offer some more clues. Also want to add... if you have an ASUS motherboard, there are some known issues with the ASUS AI Suite and the Vive. Uninstalling it is the fix. https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4gn3u6/vive_and_asus_ai_suite_are_you_having_weird_usb/

I just had the EXACT same thing!!! But mine was exactly after 1 year and 1 week of use (but used very rarely, so only about 80 hours on the controller). I ended up buying a new controller because mine was beyond warranty. But while troubleshooting it over a week or so, I was able to get it to work for very short periods by hooking it up to the PC , doing the reset.. and then it may work for a minute or two.. and then disappear again. It would even be green at times... but not track or be visible in VR. After a week or so of troubleshooting.. I just ordered a new one. But I do think, since it happened out of the blue and that it could work for short periods, that it very well could be a software issue. Well good luck with yours. I plan to eventually take mine apart and see if I can find anything wrong with it.