Wireless adapter incompatible with RYZEN cpus

[Mentalunicorn]

So myself and several people on the r/Vive subreddit with Ryzen series cpus are encountering a Blue Screen of Death and total lockups of our computers when attempting to use the vive wireless adapter. This issue eneds to be fixed and is persisting accross several types of Ryzen CPUs and mobos.

It also only seems to occur when steamvr is active. before that nothing will happen the vive Wireless app pairs to the ehadset just fine but when steam vr is used itll BSOD in about 2-10 minutes.

[VibrantNebula]

@Mentalunicorn,

We're assessing your report and the few others you mentioned on/Vive - We're aware of your situation and we'll be sure to keep in communication as we work to understand the behavior you're seeing. 

If you are reading this thread and are currently experiencing a similar behavior, you can post here to receive a ping when we have additional updates. If possible, please share your CPU/Mobo model #'s and any "stop codes" that may be displayed if a BSOD occurs.  

[Jeremy_SC2]

I am having same issue with computer freezing after opening steam vr (everything else connects fine) specs:

AMD Threadripper 1950x

Gigabyte Aurous x399 Gaming 7

No bsod codes, computer just completely freezes and have to do a hard reset to recover.

[badamsz]

I'm also getting hard locks with no blue screen, error code, or event log when running SteamVR

Threadripper 1950X in a ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME

EVGA NV 1080 Ti @ 411.63

[Mentalunicorn]

Ive been getting on an R5 1600 and Gtx 1080 with a Gigabyte Gaming 3 motherboard and 16 gigs of 3200mhz ram

[SteveDav]

I'm having the nearly the same issue. Sometimes it will BOSD to a "DPC Watchdog Violation"

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor 

Crosshair VI Hero

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti  (24.21.13.9924)

[mwbowers78]

I'm having the same issue. The wireless adaptor connects and holds connection but after 30 seconds or so in stream VR I get the BSOD with the watchdog violation. I've updated all hardware drivers, including stream vr Bluetooth, and bios. Running ryzen 6 1600 on msi x370 gaming pro carbon mb, dual gtx 970, crucial 500gb ssd.

[TobiVR]

We are experiencing the same issues with Ryzen CPU. But most of the time only when we are trying to activate the Camera for SRWorks experience. I'm happy for a quick update, because we need to showcase our app on a fair this week...

[VibrantNebula]

@TobiVR, your specific issue may be because SRWorks is currently only compatible on Nvidia GPUs and not AMD chips. Other than SRWorks, is it stable? 

[icebalm]

Ryzen R5 1600X

ASUS Crosshair VI Hero

Bugcheck: 0x00000133

Parameter 1: 00000000`00000000

Parameter 2: 00000000`00000501

Parameter 3: 00000000`00000500

Parameter 4: fffff803`f4e5e378

Caused By Driver: ntoskrnl.exe

Cause By Address: ntoskrnl.exe+1a9380

[ben_sfg]

I am also havign BSOD

DCP Watchdog Violation and I also got Page Fault in nonpaged area once.

Ryzen 7 1800x

8gb RAM

Win10

1070

I have removed and re-installed SteamVR and wireless adapter. Also got a large SteamVR update today. Still have the issue. 

[Jeremy_SC2]

Just was able to get my first real blue screen instead of just a hardlock and it was a DPC_Watchdog_Violation.  Decided to check the Steam VR logs to see the log that was updated just before the crash and found this:

Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.172 - Unable to load driver displaylink from C:\Program Files\DisplayLink XR\displaylink\bin\win32\driver_displaylink.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.172 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver displaylink: VRInitError_Init_FileNotFound
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.173 - Could not create interface in driver gamepad from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\gamepad\bin\win32\driver_gamepad.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.173 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver gamepad: VRInitError_Init_InterfaceNotFound
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.180 - error VRInitError_Init_LowPowerWatchdogNotSupported when initing driver lighthouse from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\lighthouse\bin\win32\driver_lighthouse.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.180 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver lighthouse: VRInitError_Init_LowPowerWatchdogNotSupported
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.180 - Unable to load driver manx from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\manx\bin\win32\driver_manx.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.180 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver manx: VRInitError_Init_FileNotFound
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.181 - Could not create interface in driver oculus from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\oculus\bin\win32\driver_oculus.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.181 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver oculus: VRInitError_Init_InterfaceNotFound
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.181 - Could not create interface in driver oculus_legacy from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\oculus_legacy\bin\win32\driver_oculus_legacy.dll.
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.181 - Unable to init watchdog mode for driver oculus_legacy: VRInitError_Init_InterfaceNotFound
Thu Sep 27 2018 17:55:34.181 - No drivers were capable of being watchdogs. Failing init.

[icebalm]

Wow, so it looks like it's looking for 32 bit driver files to initialize watchdog mode and failing because the files didn't get installed or wern't bundled with the package. Good job HTC!

[Gorundo]

It works sometimes for me, but will usually crash when loading into games.  The Vive Pro and PC worked well before using the Wireless Adapter.

Dpc Watchdog Error

X470

2700X Cpu

16gb Ram

[Pyrostasis]

Just adding my setup to the list.
Ryzen 1950x 32 gigs of ram in the small PCI slot and had the performance monitoring turned off in steam.

Mother board is MSIx399 gaming pro carbon crashed with watchdog error about 2 minutes into it.