Sound Skipping on Rift S

[Conner_C]

Hello! I recently tried the demo of the Steam version of OrbusVR and was very interested in it, except that I had a problem with the audio skipping in and out every couple of seconds. I found other threads relating to the same issue, both here on the OrbusVR Forums and on Reddit and on both sites users seemed to say it was just an issue with the steam version, so I went ahead and decided to get the game on the Oculus Store. I loaded up the game, logged in, and selected my character, however after the loading screen my audio continued to skip.

I have tried pretty much every solution that has been proposed, uninstalling/reinstalling, trying different USB ports, unplugging all USB devices except the headset, setting different audio devices, setting graphics to low, trying different in game voice options, even trying to log in using different network types from the log in screen. I am really dissapointed as I got three of my friends into the game, and they all enjoy it, but I’m the only one having these issues. I’ve seen that this audio issue seems to be relegated to the Rift S and I feel somewhat hopeless with the issue, as no one has come up with a fix, and there hasn’t been a huge influx of people with the issue.

Please, if anyone has any idea how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate it. I just want to enjoy this game.

Thank you for your time!

[Xenocider]

When I experience it, it isn’t orbus or steam. I wanna believe it’s your internet but I really don’t know. The way I fixed it was I put it down for a few minutes and let it fix itself. During all of this I also had high latency so that may have played into it.

[Game_Master]

Hi Conner, sorry for the frustration.
As you said, this has been an issue we haven’t been able to find any information on, or been able to reproduce on our side with a Rift S. Unfortunately, no errors have shown up in the logs either when we’ve been sent one from players.

When you try pointing the audio to separate headphones or speakers, does it still skip around? That is one workaround that has seemed to work for other players in the past.

[Conner_C]

I have tried using my dekstop speakers, wireless earbuds, and wiredheadphones plugged into my pc and all of them have skipping audio during gameplay. It only appears after the log in screen, but in terms of changing the different audio sources it doesn’t seem to affect the issue for me.