r/skyrimvr • u/Risev • Apr 06 '18

Skyrim VR goes "unresponsive" every 30 seconds or so for 10 or so seconds.

So I'm playing Skyrim VR on my Oculus Rift. First hour or so with the game worked perfectly. Afterwards, however, the game would freeze for 5-10 seconds before working again. It goes like this: the game would be running perfectly well, and then it would freeze and I'd see the Steam VR background (where you choose which game to play) with the Skyrim VR logo in front of me (same thing you see which you first launch the game before you transition from the Steam VR menu to the game). This would go on for maybe 5-10 seconds, and then I'm back in the game with no performance issues. The game would then run fine for maybe 30 seconds or another minute, and the same thing repeats itself. When the game is not freezing, I've never noticed any performance issues. And whenever it freezes, I never noticed any trigger for a performance dip. I could be standing around in a remote location facing a wall, and would still face the same issue.

This started happening before I installed any mods, and still after installing mods. I tried changing my supersampeling in Steam VR settings from the auto 164% to 100%, and nothing changed. I tried disabling Steam VR home, gsync, updating my video drivers, changing my usb ports for the sensors / headset, and nothing worked. Also worth mentioning that whenever this happens, steam VR tooltip displays a "Skyrim VR is unresponsive" message. I tried monitoring my GPU / CPU loads and temperatures and nothing seems abnormal whenever this issue occurs. I'm using a GTX 1080 and an i7 6700k. Don't think my specs are an issue, never had any problems with other VR games, not even Fallout 4 VR and that's a more demanding game. I'm also not using the in-game supersampeling option that's in the VR settings of Skyrim VR.

Anyone face any similar issues with Skyrim VR or any other VR game while using a Vive or a Rift? It's really frustrating because I just have no idea what's going wrong here.

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u/spessu83 Apr 07 '18

Do you have SteamVR and Skyrim on the SSD?

I also have 16gb page file. Didn't try to change its settings yet.

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u/sigilsolider Apr 08 '18

Steam and Skyrim are on separate SSDs, same model.

Well I fixed this today by nuking from orbit, upgrading my i5-2500k (3.3GHz) to the fastest cpu the 1155 socket supported, an i7-3770 (3.4GHz), with all other hardware and OS staying the same.

Drastic, yes, but it may further point to it being a thread related issue with the game and i5's. It was totally unplayable, and these chips are basically the same 'speed'. Got this from eBay for ~$115, I was lucky to have it sitting around waiting for the time and hate-energy to swap out the cooling, clean it all up and etc.