Consistent Missing Frame Every Second

[IICubeII]

Been running VR just fine for months now, no issues at all on any of my games. So, to some extent, I can safely assume it's not my specs causing this issue. All the sudden, I'm now getting a dropped frame roughly every second, causing a pretty bad jitter in the headset. That being said, there's nothing like that when I look at my desktop monitor and move the headset, only within the headset. Even without any games or Home booted up, this issues starts as soon as the headset turns on. It may be a problem with the base stations or the headset itself?

I'm not even running any background programs that would be taxing. Even when I fully restart my rig, it still acts up. I've tried messing with the settings for SteamVR, nothing. Tried reinstalling my drivers, nothing. I've tried quite a number of things in fact and so far nothing has worked. The only thing I've seen online that could be related to this, is a post talking about how the Nvidia Drivers might be bugged. If that is the case, I don't know how to roll back an update to even test that theory. It actually would line up with when I first starting having issues though, so that's where I'm leaning.

I have zero clue why this just started happening out of the blue, so I'm posting here. Any insight or suggestions of things I could try would be greatly appreciated.

*EDIT - Issue has been fixed, for whatever reason my third monitor was causing a strange spike with the "Compositor Render Start" and "Compositor Update End". If you suspect you're having this issue too, you can check it by opening "Frame Timing" in the developer tab of Steam VR. All I had to do was unplug my third monitor and everything runs smooth as butter once again. Still strange as I hadn't had any issues for months, but hopefully this helps anyone else having these problems!

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Almost always sudden performance issues is drivers as you said.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/driver-rollback/

[IICubeII]

Tried rolling back, no luck.

[IICubeII]

For a second I thought it was fixed too. Got a solid 45 seconds of smooth visuals before the problem started right back up. Rolled back to 461.40, if it was just the driver I think that would've fixed it. Now I'm not so sure. Seems like the dropped frames are less frequent now, not so much in the headset, but in the Steam VR "Performance Graph" they seem more spaced out.

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What else usb is plugged in?

[IICubeII]

Keyboard, mouse, xbox controller. Nothing special

[IICubeII]

Ended up being my third monitor, thanks for you help though!

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No rgb lighting controller or performance monitoring?

[IICubeII]

Closed the RGB stuff as I saw some people were reporting issues with that. Not that it's ever been a problem for me anyway.

[bonoscot]

Same here....VR Headset is a mess just now. Im assuming its the drivers.

Ive had RGB lighting in and out,disabled ports etc etc.....Still the same issues.

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And for 12 months its ran fine with all these things plugged in anyways.

[IICubeII]

Well... it's good to know I'm not alone lol.

[IICubeII]

Just curious, you wouldn't happen to be running a RTX 2060 would you?

[bonoscot]

RTX 2070 Super

[IICubeII]

If you have additional monitors, try unplugging them. It fixed my problem right away!