Vive distortion after recent update

[[DBS]steveiy]

Since the last update (or maybe the one before that, as I think I took two at once), I am getting some pretty poor behaviour from the HTC Vive.

 

Objects behind the prop (e.g terrain and clouds) wobble, like looking through the water surface in a swimming pool.  Objects in front of the prop (e.g. the gunsight) also flicker - it looks like a bit of sky is sometimes rendered in their structure.  The scratches on the front windshield in the 109 flicker and jump, as do the lines painted on some cockpits to illustrate dive angle.

 

Low clouds above the aircraft shimmer really badly when I nod my head up and down, especially if there is a piece of cockpit frame in the way.  A similar thing happens to grass if I look down during takeoff in a plane like the Pe2 that has a bottom window.

 

The reflections of clouds on lakes shimmer really badly with small movements of the head.

 

Text in the login screen (e.g. my username) dances and distorts when I nod up and down.  At times, the text boxes warp quite badly when the frame rate drops down during loading.

 

Some of the objects in the briefing screen become semi-transparent, so that I can see stuff in the hangar through them.

 

None of this happened before the recent updates.  It's ruining the immersion and I'm pretty cheesed off by it.

 

 

[JonRedcorn]

Sounds like steams version of ASW kicking in. Not sure what it is, might want to do a quick google search and see how to turn off their motion smoothing. I think its motion reprojection or something in the steam vr settings. If steamvr updated it might have changed the settings.

[=EXPEND=Tripwire]

Yep definitely Vive SteamVR Motion Smoothing.

 

You can disable it in your SteamVR settings.

 

 

 

 

The game didn't change anything, its likely you recently updated SteamVR, or even more likely updated your video card drivers to a version that supported Motion Smoothing.

[[DBS]steveiy]

Thanks for the  suggestions.  I should have added that I already disabled the motion smoothing.  But I'm sure you have a point - SteamVR seems to update every time I log on.  I also took an NVIDIA driver update, which I should have mentioned.

 

The end result is that BOS is near unplayable.  But I'm sorry I blamed the game.  I'll try fiddling with the SteamVR settings some more.