Steam overlay randomly causes semi-permanent low FPS
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Zarniwoop
With no seemingly consistency, whenever you open the steam overlay you can get stuck stuttering with super low FPS until it magically goes away or you keep the steam overlay open. Only consistent way to get rid of it is to restart the client.
It's like treading on a minefield, you never know when it's going to happen.
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ᴀᴘʜᴇʟᴮᴵᴿᴰ
I have no idea if this is what caused this kind of issue, but I have a very similar issue of permanent frame drops when opening the SteamVR Overlay to my desktop when playing wirelessly.
>>> Turning off the SteamVR Performance Graph fixed my issue.
I hope this works for anyone who was also looking for a fix and stumbled across this post.
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
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euan
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SteamVR and Oculus Lag
Viviaes
Using the SteamVR interface or Oculus interface when in game frequently causes severe lag. Occasionally game recovers but more often than not the game needs to be restarted to fix.
NotAKidoS
Haven't experienced this bug since I dropped my in-game antialiasing down to 2x within the limited* graphics settings. I am still paranoid AF though about opening the overlay, which happens often when using virtual desktop as it is the same bind.
3060ti 8GB
Faxmashine
SteamVR has some really cool new overlay features which would be great for VRChat.
But we can't really use them if opening the dashboard gimps our framerate...
Jacе
This is still happening, and is still a huge pain... Sometimes switching back and forth between the overlay and the game never fixes the problem. You have to restart all of SteamVR because restarting the game is not enough. This only happens in VRChat.
LoliKami
It's doing it to me now.
owlboy
LoliKami: oh no! How much VRAM do you have? And what graphics card do you have?
LoliKami
owlboy: 1080ti so it's 11GB
MotoFckr9k
For me the issues has come up again. I am pretty sure that it is because I am running out of vram though.
SonicLux Hedgeman
MotoFckr9k: I'd say to try my trick I posted here, and check the results
MotoFckr9k
SonicLux Hedgeman: For me this only happens when I actually open the overlay, so making it crash on start wouldn't help. Also there is an option to disable to overlay, so there isn't really much point in crashing the overlay.
SonicLux Hedgeman
MotoFckr9k: is there an option to do that? How?
MotoFckr9k
SonicLux Hedgeman: I just checked and this actually just prevents you from opening the dashboard. The dashboard does still run in background.
So if the actual vrdashboard process causing a problem, then this doesn't help.
But for me it is only a problem when I open it ingame.
SonicLux Hedgeman
MotoFckr9k: I mean, it's still worth a try in my case. I'll give it a shot when I can and see what happens
LoliKami
MotoFckr9k: It's doing it to me and I have a 1080ti so I don't think my VRAM is maxed out
MotoFckr9k
LoliKami: VRChat can churn to the 1080ti's VRAM pretty fast as well. Personally I am using a 1080.
It could still very well be that you are running into a different issue though.
SonicLux Hedgeman
I have a WMR and a beefy PC, and I've noticed that whenever I play vrchat my PC goes haywire, slow frames most of the time, and most of the time ends up cutting off my internet/making it slow (I use a USB wifi adapter), and if I try reconnecting the USB adapter it just doesn't detect any USB connection. Also crashes my headset sometimes. From what I can see it can be from a memory leak. Anyways, my point is, yesterday I turned on Vrchat and I forgot to change some settings, so as soon as I booted vrchat I closed it. Reopened and changed settings. When I got back into the game I couldn't access the steam overlay, BUT I noticed a significant boost in frames, my internet was running just great and neither my headset nor the USB driver crash. I even managed to load a 281 mb world pretty dang quickly!
Basically, I think the steam overlay is what's causing this memory leak. I have to try this again when I can.
I hope this gets fixed, cuz I love vrchat, but having to restart my pc Everytime my internet/headset dies is just too much.
SonicLux Hedgeman
Yep, after further testing, the trick i use is to open and close vrchat right as steam vr boots up, then reebooting vrchat so that the steam vr overlay stops working. This brought a significant boost in FPS and had no memory leak whatsoever! My internet was fast and I could actually load everyone's avatar on The Great Pug, something almost impossible before.
ᴍᴀsᴏɴᴇxᴇ
Guys it's called a memory leak issue [find youtube tutorial on how to fix it] you can reinstall vrchat to see if it has any memory leak again.
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