Question Question - anyone know what is going on? - weird behavior.

[Wintergulls]

When I login in VR and am faced with the menu, I am typically getting around 5 fps. Unplayable. If I do nothing it remains like this, however if I go to my PC and wiggle my mouse, ie just move it back and forth on the mat (not clicking or anything) within 10 seconds my fps is 70 fps. During scenes after loaing a preset or doing something strenuous for the processor fps will drop too, but again wiggling the mouse brings it back up to whaever was normal for that scene (on my system 20-40 fps). Anyone know what it causing this, it's obviously something related to my system and not VAM itself, but if I could work out what it is, I could make my VAM experience a whole lot less frustrating.

 

[atani]

You'll need to provide a lot more details like your computer specs, your headset, what menu do you mean, do you have other stuff running besides VAM, etc

 

[Wintergulls]

Hi Atani, thank you for the fast reply.
OK, my system :-
MSI Laptop
Processor - Intel core i7-11800H @ 2.30 GHz 11th Gen
RAM - 16 GB
Graphic Card - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 laptop GPU with 6GB memory
Headset - Oculus Quest 2 (through the machines only USB c port)
For desktop I use a HDMI cable to a larger screen
My mouse is a Ravit wired mouse and I connect it and my keyboard through a USB hub
As far as I know theres nothing else running, apart from windows background tasks.
My VAM sits on an external SCSI 4TB Seagate Drive.

The menu in question is the base menu, the thing you see when you first enter VAM, the one with the four panels Hub, Scene browser, Create, and VAMX

 

[atani]

While your PC will be limited in several points regarding VR use, there's nothing there that is dramatic enough to explain the behaviour you describe.
The mouse wiggle leads me to think you're on a power saving mode, especially considering it's a laptop, so do check if that's the case.
I have no experience with SCSI connected drives to connect it to the problem mentioned, but assuming the drive itself is a platter HDD that will make any loading in VAM much slower than with a SSD too.

 

[Wintergulls]

Thanks for the quick replay again. The thing that makes me suspect some setting on my PC is that this wasnt happening a few months ago, or at least the initial low FPS was not happening, and nothing has changed except my VAM folders have got bigger. I think its got something to do with my system lagging and struggling to keep up with VAMs demands, I get a lot of 'white' hourglass time in the middle of loading things or when I open a menu during a scene, or do something in timeline, I accept my system is limitted its just the involvement of the mouse that confuses me.
Thanks again.

 

[atani]

Get a new clean VAM copy and try that one in VR to see if the same problem shows up.