I thought this might be useful as more and more people have gotten their Frames (me included), and many more will be getting theirs.
Me and many others have run into some problems using their Frame, so a thread listing common problems and their solutions is a no-brainer.
Right eye ghosting
This is a known issue. It manifests as “ghosting” of bright parts of the image (menus and text usually) but only in the right eye view, and only when streaming wired or wireless. It persists regardless of streaming, framerate or projection settings. It affects not just the Frame, but other headsets like the Quests as well.
The fix is currently in the beta branch, update SteamVR on both your host system and the Frame to fix it.
Dongle not detected
The wifi chip in the dongle requires kernel 7.2 or newer. I was on the LTS kernel on my Endeavour OS install, so that was one part of the problem.
Valve has a troubleshooting script for linux users available, which for me revealed that my system had no regulatory region set.
On arch this is fixed by installing the wireless-regdb package, which provides region data. Then setting your region in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom by uncommenting your country.
After a reboot, the dongle shows up!
Dongle doesn’t pair
For some reason, pairing does not seem to work when attempting it from the streaming toggle button inside the Frame.
However, if I navigate to the “Remote Play” section in settings on my Frame, and do it from there, it works immediately.
Streaming stutter
My streams did not start off perfect. I’ve done many things to improve it, most of which are relevant to my particular router and hence not applicable to everyone.
But in general, it seems that for 6Ghz, 160Mhz channel width works better than 320Mhz. Also having ANY other device on the same connection can cause stutter. I also improved things by disabling some power saving features on the router side.
I’ve not messed with the dongle much, as I have a far more powerful router with much better coverage of my play space. Using it for the 6Ghz connection did not seem to work better than the router for me, but I’ve seen others get the best result by using ONLY the dongle, and disabling the LAN+WiFi stream entirely.
SteamVR desktop mirroring does not work
This seems to simply be broken on linux?
I’m using WayVR for this instead. You can add it to Steam so you can launch it from the Frame after starting a stream from your PC.
Other problems or solutions to bring up? Comment please!
Has anyone been able to get their view really dialed in so that things like text are super sharp and without any fringing? Maybe I’m just expecting too much from the resolution, or perhaps I’m not getting my IPD fully dialed in.
Speaking of IPD, the specs say “IPD target range 60mm - 70mm”, but the IPD on mine adjusts from about 58mm to about 69.4mm. Has anyone else noticed their IPD range be slightly off from the specs? I wonder if the “target” implies that it won’t be exactly the range, but somewhere around that.
Since the Frame uses pancake lenses, it is much more forgiving of IPD compared to fresnel lenses (the older, more common type). So it’s probably just expectations, although you might have an IPD that is outside the range (there are ways to physically measure this).
Thanks. I think I’m right around the widest limit. I just read earlier that pancake lenses are quite forgiving of IPD, so it’s probably not that. I guess I just had higher expectations of how sharp things would look.
Yeah, mine’s off as well. Haven’t measured my eyes but I dialed it up as much as possible (69,8 or so) and it’s still not great. Have read of many others who did measure their own IPD and they had something between 70 and 75.
Interesting, thanks! I just measured myself with a measuring tape in front of a mirror, so not very precise, but I seem to be right around 70mm.