does someone know if the vive tracker 3.0 finally work with the latest 271 beta pitool ?
Is there any update on the new firmware? Cant find any past driver version that does 90Hz on nVidia Studio, so I am really hoping the new firmware version fixes it
1 Like
new nvidia driver today that fixes a long standing steamvr frame stutter bug when gpu monitoring apps are running (like fpsvr), we need the new firmware asap to take advantage of this
5 Likes
the alpha firmware work perfectly with my rtx3090 in 90hz and the new nvidia driver 471.11
great pimax
5 Likes
yes its the best firmware till now,also when you move your head the picture stays clearer now!
9 Likes
Very promising, seems like its gonna be worth the wait for non-alpha testers, very excited
4 Likes
Wait is it available or are you a tester?
2 Likes
Not yet available,i am testing it yes
3 Likes
Nice this is good news can’t wait for it to get released 
2 Likes
Just polishing my TRex to a shine.
Hopefully the firmware will work at 90Hz
2 Likes
@PimaxUSA Please make it this Friday! I have lots of gaming id like to try it on!
5 Likes
I recently updated to very 271 (skipping many versions as I was previously on 253) and overall the performance is better, but I am experiencing one issue I didn’t have before:
I’ll try to keep this short: At the resolutions I want to drive I can’t run many titles at 90fps. Often I can get into the 60s or 70s, but not all the way to 90. I use the Motion Smoothing function so that I only need to get to 45fps (expect in racing sims where I find it’s better just to leave motion smoothing off as the lower frame rate doesn’t bother me in those at all and the ghosting from Motion Smoothing is very pronounced).
However, I’m having a very strange issue where now, even though the overall performance is BETTER, I’ll drop to 30fps (1 real frame + 2 estimated frames) in areas where I know there is no reason whatsoever for this to happen. For example if I turn off Motion Smoothing and wander around the scene, I’ll get 60-70fps; never even close to dropping below 45. So Motion Smoothing should say “can’t get 90fps, therefore clamp at 45 and use 1 estimated frame for every real frame.” So I should stay at 45 throughout those scenes with Motion Smoothing on, but I don’t.
I think what is happening is that the Pimax drivers are seeing texture loading times; you know, that tiny little millisecond blip that happens here and there in a game and causes just the tiniest hiccup. I can’t even see this when I’m playing the game, but I can watch it happen in FPS VR - it looks like a spike for as little as a single frame. My theory is that the Pimax drivers then immediately switch to 30fps and stay there for about a second or two before ramping back up, turning what would have been an effectively unnoticeable tiniest little hiccup into something that’s very obvious.
Is there anything I can do to change this behavior? I don’t care if I get 40fps for a total of 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 frames while a set of textures load. I DO care if I instead get 30fps for 1 or 2 seconds for no valid reason to ‘smooth out’ that insignificant blip. I would very much like to be able to make this new behavior go away.
2 Likes
Has the firmware been tested on a TITAN RTX yet? If not I would like to volunteer for testing.
3 Likes
No idea.
Ping @PimaxUSA.
He probably knows and he can provide You with the firmware if it needs testing… 
3 Likes
Yes, I will then also test on the Titan.
If I don’t report anything, everything is fine. xD
Gib firmware! 
1 Like
Has anyone tried launching Lone Echo from within this PiTool? I cannot seem to start it
EDIT: I went back to 270 (after full uninstall) and LE works now. Weird. Maybe it was the removal. But it may be a 271 bug. I don’t want to go back
I’ve played around with this a bit more now, and it’s definitely a new behavior I did not experience with 253 or I would have been really bothered by it. What’s happening to me (in Skyrim VR) is this; I’m wandering around any scene, my fps with Motion Smoothing off would be 50-80, so I turn on motion smoothing. Now my frame rate SHOULD BE 45 all the time unless there is a hiccup due to texture loading where it should drop below 45 for a fraction of a second. That’s how it used to work. But instead it’s rock-solid at 45 except when Skyrim loads some new textures. Then Motion Smoothing detects that tiny (less than a second) drop in performance - in FPS VR it shows up as a single red spike in GPU latency. Then Motion Smoothing jumps in and drops my FPS to 30 for at least an entire second, sometimes more, before it realizes it did not need to do so and ramps my performance back up to 45. I absolutely HATE this. Is there any way I can turn this off rather than disabling Motion Smoothing and reducing my resolutions until I hit 90fps?
3 Likes
actually that is very good mode if would be implemented property ,i absolutely love auto fps switch on index, it works flawlessly for me on valves hmd, you also can try to disable motion smoothing in steamvr, it could be it, not the pitool, but im not sure, maybe pimax also tries to implement this solution and it would be great
2 Likes
Is there any update on when the firmware might become a public beta?
5 Likes
I have the same question. Please give us an update on the 8KX public beta firmware release plan! I’ve been checking daily now for a while hoping to see some new info.
9 Likes