Hard stutter in VR on Rift S after a few minutes into the game

The game becomes an unplayable mess at random times in fleet battles upon entering the capital ship hanger or when dying. Once it happens there is no other way to recover other than to restart the game. Then sure enough, after 1 - 3 matches it will come back again. Using a Quest 2. 

Are you seeing the same issue in 4.0 that went out last week? 

@JimboniusMaximus  @PvtEmotion @Bolly_AU 

/Atic 

@EA_Atic 

I still have this issue post patch. I know there are many others who have voiced it as well on Reddit and/or Steam forums. It appears to predominantly occur on Oculus headsets, but I may be wrong.

Something to note: The game is fully capable of running at stable framerates. Currently I can test performance in practice mode with all VR video settings on LOW or OFF, with 40 – 50% GPU headway, running the Quest 2 via link at the recommended settings at 72hz. The game can sometimes perform perfectly smooth through an entire ranked fleet battles match. However, at random times, though consistently after at least 1 – 4 matches, about 10 – 15 min through a match, the FPS appears to start to degrade upon each death, or until the FPS will suddenly drop to around 5 – 10 FPS and never recover. This also will occur suddenly when entering the flagship hanger to repair/change ships/resupply. At this point the game becomes unplayable, toggling VR off/on does not resolve the issue. The only thing that resolves it is by leaving the match, restarting the game and re-joining the match.

Things I have tried:
I have followed this guide on reddit here completely:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsSquadrons/comments/jez56v/psa_steps_to_take_to_enjoy_vr/

I have updated all of my operating system, video card, and hardware drivers. I have tried re-installing the game, verifying file integrity in the Steam Library. I have tinkered with the in-game settings and ProfileOptions_profile, adjusted settings within Oculus Debug Tool, optimized the game to the exact NVIDIA GeForce Experience recommendations or lower. I have updated all of my Oculus Hardware/Software. I have made sure there is nothing else running in the background. I have tried launching the game in 2D mode and toggling to VR. I have tried playing the game via wireless Virtual Desktop. 

These are my specs:
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3600 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s), 16 GB Corsair RAM.

I am playing the game on an Oculus Quest 2 via Oculus Link (official cable) with a T.160000M HOTAS. I am using a USB-C 3.1 port is a is a Gen 2 (10 Gbps).

The issue never occurs in dogfight mode, only in fleet battles in VR. Specifically, after dying or when docking into the flagship hanger during a match. This seems to occur regardless of what my video or graphical settings are set to. The game runs flawlessly at everything set to ULTRA and the highest settings on my PC in 2D mode.

I tried to be thorough here. Let me know if you would like any additional information. The game is amazing, I really hope you guys can fix this, because it makes ranked fleet battles unplayable.

Yes, the same issue happens. At first I thought it got fixed, here's what happened in chronological order:

• The last couple of days normal battles went fine.
• Started the game today with a fleet battle against AI. Smooth at first, then it began to stutter again.
• Turned some graphics settings down. Went to practice area, everything smooth. I thought maybe it was the graphics settings
• Turned on a fight against a Raider in the practice area. Went smooth for a time, then it began to stutter again.
• After that, stutter persisted in menus, hangar and in-game.

It seems to be somehow connected to big ships and fleet battles.

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@EA_Atic wrote:

Are you seeing the same issue in 4.0 that went out last week? 

@JimboniusMaximus  @PvtEmotion @Bolly_AU 

/Atic 

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Dear EA_Atic, I can not confirm that the issue is solved. Stuttering still occurs in fleet battles. My system: Ryzen r5 3600, 16 GB Ram, game installed on a SSD, Asus Dual Nvidia RTX 3070, running via Origin/Oculus SDK with Rift S.

I tried different VR scaling values between 0.8 (standard in previous builds of squadrons) and 1.3 where I reach 80 fps (no ASW) in the beginning of a match. Furthermore, I tried different monitors besides the Rift, since I suspected a display switching error.

Problem is always the same: gameplay is smooth in the beginning and after a few deaths stuttering occurs. The moment where it shows up, is to my perception, when a switch from VR view to 2d kill cam and back happens. This is often accompanied by a cracking sound and eventually complete vanishing of any sound. My PC then switches from Rift audio device to the analog headphone output of the PC. Microphone and chat still work over Rift.

Please take other threads in the forum into account, which describe the same problem. Thread titles e.g memory leak, stuttering I fleet battles/VR.

I love everything about this game, but because of this bug VR fleet battles are unplayable (not just for me).

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@EA_Atic wrote:

Are you seeing the same issue in 4.0 that went out last week? 

@JimboniusMaximus  @PvtEmotion @Bolly_AU 

/Atic 

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I could not play for around three weeks and just started a game (4.2). The stuttering was most apparent in the menus when scrolling though settings. In the game as most of the time it was not visible until I played a mutiplayer game, which ran fine and started stuttering lightly at the end. I don't see a difference to three weeks ago, to be honest.

Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 3070 Super, 16 Gb RAM. I saw on Social Media that players talked about that the game was finally playable in VR, but I can't really say that 100%. I start Oculus, then Steam VR and in Steam VR start Squadrons. Someone on Reddit told me to launch the game via Oculus, but then it would just launch in cinema mode, right?

Kind regards