Oculus PC Software is a joke...
Posted Nov 19, 2023, 3:10 AM UTC
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I wonder if they are getting hit hard with a lot of people getting Assassin's creed. I bought it this evening and it downloaded pretty fast, 17 gigs in maybe 15, 20 minutes.
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The games (PCVR and Quest) download just fine (15MB/s here).
It's something wrong with oculus software installer. It's almost like the installer dowloads one file at a time instead of a whole compressed package and it slows down to XXX B/s when it downloads idk icons or something.
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38MBps
Are you using the quest stand alone or on your pc with link cable?
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AC is only standalone, PC with link wouldn't do anything...?
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I didn’t know assassins creed was quest store only, I typically only play VR via pc link
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I do both. Pcvr i use VD instead of link.
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I didn’t know assassins creed was quest store only,
I mean Meta/Oculus/Whatever has all but completely pulled the plug on PCVR. They don't even do discounts on the PC side of things. It's a pretty easy thing to guess that anything new is standalone only unless otherwise specified.
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Why even use a cable.
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Could be also hard drive issue, or download slows down at the end because it starts unpacking some stuff(?)
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It’s running on an M.2
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Just re downloaded the software and had the same problem. Only saving grace is it's a small download.
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Reinstalled the software 3 times now over the past 2 days. Each time has taken at least an hour(pretty sure my connection isn't the issue but I dropped a screenshot just to confirm or if I'm just severely retarded, Still yet to be able to play the game I also had to buy at full price because their "Black Friday promo code" wouldn't work due to what I'm assuming is also a bug with the software too.
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Is it a DRAM or DRAMLESS m.2 to much read/writes too fast can make it go to HDD levels of speed.
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Wouldn't REALLY matter for a 2GB download anyway, unless the drive's firmware is insanely stupid. I've downloaded the software last week and my experience was the same as OP. On a 1Gbps connection it took over 40mins. Also running an a MP510 nvme drive.
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M.2's isn't necessarily better. Many only does normal ssd speeds and don't have any cache. But not the case here, that's insanity slow
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So it wasnt just me. I thought this was just oculus servers being slow or my router packet inspecting it and slowing the download. I have 540mbps and it only used about 380kbps. The server that hosts it must be having a seizure or something
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I would empty my bank account and sell my house and send it to the man that makes Oculus Rift S 100% compatible with Linux without official Oculus software. I fucking hate Oculus. Hardware is dope though. After Meta bought them out the software literally immediately went to shit. Consistent crashes, hit or miss launches, random lag, detection issues, the list goes on.
Fuck Oculus, fuck Oculus support and fuck Fuckerburg.
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Realest comment, looking into get a bigscreen headset
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I'd love to get that one but I just can't justify $1500CAD for it. :/ I'll have to wait for it to go down in price a little.
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Thought you were going to empty your bank account and sell your house!!!
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called out!
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Weird
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And sometimes it halts during install, so you have to re-launch the installer and re-download it again :|
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It's cause it's installing and unpacking files. M.2 or not when you have tons of tiny files it still slows down.
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Well a couple of issues
- If you do a speed test DURING a download one will get all the speed while the other one is.
- Internet speed is done in Bits while most installers use BYTES which has a big difference but this isn't the case here
- Hard drives and dramless M2's/ssds can be bad at rapid writes reducing it to HDD levels.
- Issue in the middle, you would need to provide a tracert to see there is no latency issues in the middle of your connecting to Oculus
- Dont know if anyone else is using your internet in your home or possibly connection if it's a shared connection.
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Oh and I thought it was just me. I switched between my 2.4ghz and 5ghz network and was seeing sporadic speed. I don't understand how they can build software that can't download correctly.
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That’s not a software issue, it’s the servers holding the data.
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It’s usually fine on my end, a few weeks ago asguards wrath took like 15 minutes.
Probably what’s happening is server overload from everybody downloading assassins creed at the same time. Try again in a few days or not the weekend it should cool down again.
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Its their server + your hardrive cant transfer files at 300mb/s.
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Their hard drive would have to be really screwed (or already under load) to be only downloading at 900 bytes
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Oculus online service for downloading software is much slower than usual. Probably related to Assassin’s Creed Nexus release.
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Get virtual desktop I promise it’s worth it
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Virtual Desktop is not going to change the download speeds coming from Meta's servers 🤦♂️ which is the issue here.
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Oops I didn’t understand the original post. Ok true
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Can concur. It can take all night to download a 20Gb Meta PCVR game.
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I agree with people recommending Virtual Desktop. I get much better quality and performance with it. Also, it's way more polished and has many QoL features.
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It's a rather silly recommendation considering it's redundant to airlink and isn't going to change the issue this person is experiencing. The slow download speeds are due to Meta's servers. 🤦♂️
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Your understanding of IT is a joke, if you think this is a software problem 😜
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If it's hitching near the end of the download then it could be a software problem.
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Same thing here. Tried updating Asgards Wrath yesterday and it took a few hours and my Internet speeds are the same. Haven't used Oculus PC in awhile so wondering if this is the norm.
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Downloaded it too same issue but I didn’t need to wait that long
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I've seen this happen for tons of softwares that let you install games, idk what it is with them but yea your not alone on that one.
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Did a fresh install of windows the other day - oculus by FAR took the most time to reinstall out of any of my other software, I literally installed dozens of programs in the time it took Oculus to do its thing
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I’m sitting here looking at the same thing. 2GB… 45 minutes. Unreal
For some people that’s really how long it takes. Be greatful about what you’re getting now
Did it used to be worse? When you say what we are getting now
I think they mean that some people's speeds are like that anyway, for everything