The Bitter Taste of Tech Failure: A Descent into VR Madness

I'll never forget the day I decided to attempt to upgrade my aging VR rig. It had been a faithful companion for years, faithfully delivering immersive experiences for me and my wife. But as with all good things, it eventually came time to bid farewell to that trusty old machine. I started by trying to swap out the RAM, but that proved to be a challenge. The CPU, which I thought was relatively recent, had somehow become "fused" to the cold plate of the cooler. I'm not sure if I tightened it down too tight the first time or if that knocked loose a pin, but whatever the reason, it ripped right out of its socket. That's when I realized that I wasn't the only one who had experienced this problem with AMD CPUs - apparently, it's just something that happens.

I didn't give up, though. I decided to try and swap out the spinning disk hard drive, which was also ancient. The WD Blue had been installed for at least ten years, and I figured it was time to upgrade to a newer model. So I pulled it out and swapped it with a new 500GB green hard drive, which was equally old but slightly faster. I plugged it in, hoping that this would finally be the solution to my problems. But when I tried to reinstall Windows, the installer hung on the USB drive like a bad habit. I couldn't figure out why - maybe it was the ancient hardware? Maybe it just needed a reboot? Whatever the reason, I decided to try and troubleshoot further.

That's when I remembered that I had a spare parts stash hidden away in my garage. I started digging through it, looking for something that might finally solve my problems. And then I spotted it - a cheap USB 3 card that I had bought months ago. I thought to myself, "Why not? It can't be any worse than the ancient hardware I've been using." So I plugged in the card and tried again. To my surprise, it worked! The system detected the new drive, and the Windows installer finally ran smoothly.

But even with this newfound success, I still wasn't able to get my VR setup working. The Oculus Rift was refusing to connect to the computer via USB 3 port - something about the ports being "horrible" or "the worst USB 3 ports you'll ever encounter." I tried switching between different ports, but nothing seemed to work. It was like the system was deliberately conspiring against me.

Finally, in a moment of desperation, I decided to try using a USB 2 port instead. And to my surprise, it worked! The Oculus Rift detected the headset, and I was able to boot up the system without any issues. But as soon as I tried to connect to the VR environment, the system crashed - literally, with a blue screen of death.

I couldn't believe it. All this time, all these hours, all this tinkering had been for nothing. And now, my beloved Oculus Rift was refusing to work on even the most basic level. It was like I'd finally hit rock bottom. I realized that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can't fix everything.

As I sat there staring at the blue screen of death, something strange happened. My mind started racing with thoughts of what could have been done differently. What if I had swapped out the RAM first? What if I had tightened down the CPU cooler more securely? What if...what if...what if...

But as the minutes ticked by, my frustration gave way to a sense of resignation. I knew that sometimes, you just have to accept defeat and move on. And so I did. I pulled out the old hard drive, swapped it with the new one, and started installing Windows again.

This time, though, I was determined to get it right. I installed all of my Steam games, my VR games, and my other applications with ease. I set everything up behind my TV, making sure that nothing would go awry. And then, finally, I plugged in the Oculus Rift and ran through the setup.

It wasn't perfect - the sensors didn't seem to be working quite right, and the connection was a little spotty. But at least it was stable, if not perfectly smooth. As I sat there wearing my headset, I felt a sense of accomplishment wash over me. I had done it. I had overcome the odds.

But even as I basked in the glow of triumph, I couldn't help but feel a little bit sad. This was the end of an era - the final nail in the coffin for my trusty old VR rig. It had been a faithful companion, but sometimes you just can't keep them around forever. And so, with a heavy heart, I bid farewell to that beloved machine.

As I sat there staring at the Oculus Rift, now finally working smoothly behind me, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement for what was to come. There were new adventures waiting, new experiences to be had. And as long as I had this technology in my corner, I knew I could face whatever came next.

The bitter taste of tech failure may have been sour on my lips, but it had also taught me something valuable - that sometimes, you just have to let go and move on.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is brought to you by privacy stay tuned to learn more and learn how you can get well free money so at some point last year I got sent a VR headset rigged for me to play virtual reality on and make a couple videos and I made the sponsored content for Intel regarding the Archangel Nightwing Knight Nightwing whatever the Archangel game the mech game was a lot of fun had fun making that video doing that stream and things like that but you may have noticed I've had a couple questions I don't really talk about playing VR or haven't made any other videos on VR ever since and there's a few reasons for that one being that playing so much of that specific game which was unique in the way the camera motion worked and things like that really kind of started to make me a little motion sick which got me a little burnt out on it and I didn't want to mess with the too much motion sickness ain't fun it's not something I experience a whole lot but with that game after like four hours of streaming it I was not having a good time the main reason being that I don't have or I didn't have anywhere with my actual gaming computers you know the hardware to actually run the games where I could actually play I have this l-shaped desk a small little not even big enough for an actual VR area room and then if I reach up at all which I kept doing there in that livestream I'm whacking my ceiling fan not the optimal play space for VR and I kept running into my desk and things like that like I would get really immersed and then just smash into things what would be ideal is the play in my more living room part of our living room office work bench area thing in front of my TV where I can clear out a little bit more of the floor I'm probably gonna still step on stuff and hurt my feet but it would be a more optimal experience the problem is I don't have a gaming computer there so we're changing that today now with the baby on the way I have to budget a lot more and I can't just go buy hardware for this so we're doing the spare parts vr gaming PC and we're gonna see how this works the main game that I'm interested in trying at the moment is beat saber which I have been assured by virtually everyone at this point is not that hard to run and the hardware that I'm selecting should be fine we'll make upgrades as we go and maybe look into some sponsors to do a part two or something if it's not super optimal or we'll get some lowest gamer magic going but we're doing the spare parts VR rate so I've got a box of CPU coolers which are mostly knocked to a in HD 14 in D 15s and a couple a iOS although I don't really have a ton of mounting hardware because I didn't keep a lot of that when we moved I ended up getting rid of a lot because I thought it never needed and then I took the coolers apart and I needed it so at minimum I should have the a m3 bracket for one of these D 15 coolers if not we can look into using one of the smaller nock to as I got sent recently the u 12 a I've got my GTX 970 that I pulled out of my streaming rig because it had dual GPUs for literally no reason so pulled that out should be good enough everyone tells me it's fine to run beat saber and then we have the Asus crosshair 5 formula Z with my AMD FX 95 90 CPU so eight course although according to the recent lawsuit settlement sort of lawsuit was kind of garbage and I don't apparently qualify for the settlement money because I'm not in California and I didn't buy it from AMD comm but I've still got the FX 95 90 in there I've got some ddr3 RAM sitting around work basically kind of rebuilding my game or my editing PC I guess it was my gaming PC 2 from 2014 but trying to make it a little bit smaller and intending to use it for VR hopefully it'll work out so again weird selection of coolers before the case we're gonna do something a little bit different I do have a few cases lying around here and part of my motivation for doing a lot of these weekend project videos is to get a lot more of this inventory either in use or out of my way you know gotten rid of entirely so I can clear up some space here but I don't know that I'm gonna use the spare cases I have something else in mind what is that so looking at it here I'm really starting to question whether or not this is the route I want to go down yeah but this is actually an ROG case so keeping with the ASIS theme that's a ROG badge on it my uncle great uncle distant uncle who gave me his entire PC gaming collection a couple years ago that I owned boxes on channel and has seated me a little bit of weird older PC hardware over time which has been pretty great to have someone who has that stuff sent me his old computer which is in this really nice you know classic mid zero zeros ott says some people call it a PC case but it's been sitting in a garage for a decade or however long it's been now it's not in the best of shape so I wanted to keep it for like a low-key it's not a sleeper bill but you know a low-key less flashy rig and to kind of keep with the consistent theme but it's gonna need some cleanup I do like all of the different bays and it's got a multi DVD drive in it this weird windows 98 era USB Bay I don't know if that has a hard drive in it or what but and it has a pull system in it so we get to see what kind of weird hardware is in there but it is going to need some work as I said and this whole door system is actually broken off because this kind of swings out but it does shut so theoretically if we can get this cleaned up it should look pretty cool so I'm just gonna start tearing into it and we'll see how far we make it before I change my mind on the case I do have another case coming for review that we might swap it to midway through this video if I end up not finishing it all today poor we keep going I wanted to give thanks to our sponsor for this video privacy calm my wife and I are expecting our first child and that means that I need to start budgeting and stop spending all of my money on toys for work which means I needed you know to set a hard limit of how much I can spend with privacy calm that is actually super easy by going to their website with privacy calm /e bills box making a card I can make a new card give it a nickname such as work expenses and set a monthly limit so that I cannot spend any more than X amount of dollars each month which means I can set say a 500 dollar per month budget for things I can buy for work and for reviews and things like that and I can't spend any more of that I can keep in control of my finances because relying on my judgment that's that's not gonna work out so head to privacy comm /e Post Vox to learn more sign up for free and get yourself five dollars of free credit for my subscribers for a limited time by signing up and it's free money privacy comm slash people's box yo check it out I highly recommend it even my wife is super impressed by it especially since it helps me budget it lives it's really quiet I'm actually impressed at how quiet it is all right well according to the diagnostic codes and stuff it appears to maybe be rejecting my 970 for some reason not sure what's up with that so we're gonna try moving it down to the other 16x slot failing that I'm gonna put in this 1080 and see if we have any better results it may be the powers toy I don't know so we're gonna start by moving it down and switching power leads we're gonna start switching power leads then moving it down all right we have posted we have sixteen gigabytes of RAM ninety-five 94.7 gigahertz 970 is running so for whatever reason that power lead just wasn't working but we're good to go so I don't need my 1080 that can go back to my stream rig and I can get testing with some VR so I ended up going a little slightly different direction with this build from what we had started with that older PC I am at some point going to take out and clean up and that'll be its own separate video but I ran out of daylight to really do that today and it was just more time than I wanted to invest in it this was the spend some spare time getting rid of some old stuff or putting it to better use so I can compact it together get rid of a lot of PC screws that were floating around a lot of hardware crunched into this box that way I can serve a purpose that I've been wanting to do for a while so instead we went this with the CyberPower case which was never really used by me it was sent to me with a bunch of other spare parts that I've just kind of had lying around and it's taking up space in my studio floor and driving me nuts so I finally got to put that to use and then I used those gam Deus Aeolus m1 fans that I got sent for the fan pack for review and I did that CPU cooler review so I've got poor RGB fans just to add some color to it it looks ridiculous it's fine haha and then for cooling the 95 90 we actually went with the Noctua in HD 14 I thought it was a D 15 it's actually the D 14 which is the older one and I know this because the bigger fans that I have for my three different deep 15 units down there did not fit it and I had to specifically find these smaller fans but it still it fits within the case it is super quiet especially with the tempered side glass panel on and then we've got my 970 which I bought new back when it was a really good value and then I even got a $30.00 refund as part of that lawsuit I went with a WD one terabyte blue hard drive and a kingston 120 gig SSD should be plenty enough for a few VR games and just getting this going did a decent job of cable managing it I had to pull out this power lead so that part doesn't look like it but the rest is fairly well cable managed the fans actually have super-long fan cables so I'm using the fans themselves with the RAM to like hide the cables up under it pretty neat and overall I don't think it turned out pretty good it's not polished it's not clean it's a little dusty a little beat-up old parts weird configuration but that was the point right spare parts PR gaming rig I'll post a little bit of VR footage with this although it'll be at 30fps cuz that's what the rest of this video is but yeah thank you so much for watching this video I've been enjoying doing these weird weekend projects three hours later alright well I officially have to call it quits on this project I don't like ending videos of projects on like a failed note especially when the point wasn't to make it like a trial and error multi-part thing like my Tesla four-plex series but holy crap this thing has caused me nothing but stress and frustration and hasn't let me play a lick of VR I the total the issues that I've run into since I stopped recording last time after running fine for hours suddenly the entire system just started hanging and it was done I spent forever trying to figure out what it was I swapped out the RAM I receded the CPU along the way the process when I went to receipt the CPU somehow the processor had already become like fused to the cold plate of the cooler the I don't know if I tightened it down too tight the first time or if that knocked to a pace I used which I thought was relatively recent was just really old or what but like it ripped right out of that socket the one thing I always say to do not to do as I was as my camera battery died the one thing I always wore the one thing I always weren't about happening with AMD CPUs just happened thankfully no pins were bent but got it receded changed out the RAM didn't seem to help I I I didn't know what else to try eventually I swapped out the spinning disk hard drive that games were installing to I original I'd originally unplugged the SSD I figured this SSD is really old getting pegged so I unplugged that and just plugged in the USB windows installer again to try reinstalling Windows and it still hung on the windows installer USB Drive like okay eventually what I thought was the solution was pulling out the spinning disk the WD blue I had which is ancient it the thing is at least ten years old probably I pulled that out swapped it to a new I think owd green hard drive which was equally ancient but it was already faster plugged it in lasted four hours again without hanging I ended up installing all of my Steam games all of my VR games getting it set up brought over and installed behind the combined the TV and then I went to plug in the oculus rift and run that set up and it wasn't like in the USB ports because the as media USB ports on the the FX series are some of the worst USB 3 ports you will ever encounter and literally as the oculus app is trying to like ping them and make sure they're working they're just sitting there rapidly do-do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do as its disconnecting and reconnecting traded a couple different times didn't work finally installed a noriko cheapo USB 3 card which i have a separate video i shot in like February I need to finally edit about why these are bad but it's all I have available again spare parts we are rig installed a USB 3 card and they weren't even being detected at all and then once I was the headset USB the report was detected through the card but the sensors were not they still weren't working on the onboard USB 3 finally I just tried USB 2 apparently you can just use them on USB 2 ports thought that was going great and then literally as its trying to like confirm that it can track the controllers I got a blue screen and then a system Hey and then a blue screen and it's just a make and a blue screen two days many hours of tinkering with this later and I'm just gonna assume that somewhere the motherboard or the CPU or maybe even the graphics card one some of this hardware which has been a main rig of a few different you know for me and for my wife at one point since 2014 it is five years old it has been under so much constant abuse and use something about it is dead and I just I'm done a rich admittedly part of this video was you know part of the point of this video was to kind of get me back into VR content and kind of bait potential sponsors or companies that might want to work together to build another VR rig and do more VR coverage but I at least wanted to actually play beat Sabre for once I even had our horse taco one of our longest discord members actually donated me beat Sabre because I couldn't buy it right now and I literally can't play it I'm pissed so yeah so since like I said this was meant to be bait to get that so I hopefully will have a part two to this where I do partner with the company to build a VR rig because I thought I was doing great I combined a bunch of old hardware that was sitting around taking up space got it packed behind my TV where you wouldn't really see it anymore and I can't play VR sorry to end the video on this note it was supposed to be you don't need a powerful rig to run VR 970 is like the minimum requirements and for games like beat saber it's totally fine FX 95 90 totally fine but the problem of using older use hardware is there's always gonna be little issues that you can't totally track down or fix and that just sucks so thank you for watching hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for hopefully not more of these kinds of tech failures and hopefully we have another VR video in the future I was actually hoping to use this to play clone hero - it's been forever since I've played guitar hero I'll see you next timethis video is brought to you by privacy stay tuned to learn more and learn how you can get well free money so at some point last year I got sent a VR headset rigged for me to play virtual reality on and make a couple videos and I made the sponsored content for Intel regarding the Archangel Nightwing Knight Nightwing whatever the Archangel game the mech game was a lot of fun had fun making that video doing that stream and things like that but you may have noticed I've had a couple questions I don't really talk about playing VR or haven't made any other videos on VR ever since and there's a few reasons for that one being that playing so much of that specific game which was unique in the way the camera motion worked and things like that really kind of started to make me a little motion sick which got me a little burnt out on it and I didn't want to mess with the too much motion sickness ain't fun it's not something I experience a whole lot but with that game after like four hours of streaming it I was not having a good time the main reason being that I don't have or I didn't have anywhere with my actual gaming computers you know the hardware to actually run the games where I could actually play I have this l-shaped desk a small little not even big enough for an actual VR area room and then if I reach up at all which I kept doing there in that livestream I'm whacking my ceiling fan not the optimal play space for VR and I kept running into my desk and things like that like I would get really immersed and then just smash into things what would be ideal is the play in my more living room part of our living room office work bench area thing in front of my TV where I can clear out a little bit more of the floor I'm probably gonna still step on stuff and hurt my feet but it would be a more optimal experience the problem is I don't have a gaming computer there so we're changing that today now with the baby on the way I have to budget a lot more and I can't just go buy hardware for this so we're doing the spare parts vr gaming PC and we're gonna see how this works the main game that I'm interested in trying at the moment is beat saber which I have been assured by virtually everyone at this point is not that hard to run and the hardware that I'm selecting should be fine we'll make upgrades as we go and maybe look into some sponsors to do a part two or something if it's not super optimal or we'll get some lowest gamer magic going but we're doing the spare parts VR rate so I've got a box of CPU coolers which are mostly knocked to a in HD 14 in D 15s and a couple a iOS although I don't really have a ton of mounting hardware because I didn't keep a lot of that when we moved I ended up getting rid of a lot because I thought it never needed and then I took the coolers apart and I needed it so at minimum I should have the a m3 bracket for one of these D 15 coolers if not we can look into using one of the smaller nock to as I got sent recently the u 12 a I've got my GTX 970 that I pulled out of my streaming rig because it had dual GPUs for literally no reason so pulled that out should be good enough everyone tells me it's fine to run beat saber and then we have the Asus crosshair 5 formula Z with my AMD FX 95 90 CPU so eight course although according to the recent lawsuit settlement sort of lawsuit was kind of garbage and I don't apparently qualify for the settlement money because I'm not in California and I didn't buy it from AMD comm but I've still got the FX 95 90 in there I've got some ddr3 RAM sitting around work basically kind of rebuilding my game or my editing PC I guess it was my gaming PC 2 from 2014 but trying to make it a little bit smaller and intending to use it for VR hopefully it'll work out so again weird selection of coolers before the case we're gonna do something a little bit different I do have a few cases lying around here and part of my motivation for doing a lot of these weekend project videos is to get a lot more of this inventory either in use or out of my way you know gotten rid of entirely so I can clear up some space here but I don't know that I'm gonna use the spare cases I have something else in mind what is that so looking at it here I'm really starting to question whether or not this is the route I want to go down yeah but this is actually an ROG case so keeping with the ASIS theme that's a ROG badge on it my uncle great uncle distant uncle who gave me his entire PC gaming collection a couple years ago that I owned boxes on channel and has seated me a little bit of weird older PC hardware over time which has been pretty great to have someone who has that stuff sent me his old computer which is in this really nice you know classic mid zero zeros ott says some people call it a PC case but it's been sitting in a garage for a decade or however long it's been now it's not in the best of shape so I wanted to keep it for like a low-key it's not a sleeper bill but you know a low-key less flashy rig and to kind of keep with the consistent theme but it's gonna need some cleanup I do like all of the different bays and it's got a multi DVD drive in it this weird windows 98 era USB Bay I don't know if that has a hard drive in it or what but and it has a pull system in it so we get to see what kind of weird hardware is in there but it is going to need some work as I said and this whole door system is actually broken off because this kind of swings out but it does shut so theoretically if we can get this cleaned up it should look pretty cool so I'm just gonna start tearing into it and we'll see how far we make it before I change my mind on the case I do have another case coming for review that we might swap it to midway through this video if I end up not finishing it all today poor we keep going I wanted to give thanks to our sponsor for this video privacy calm my wife and I are expecting our first child and that means that I need to start budgeting and stop spending all of my money on toys for work which means I needed you know to set a hard limit of how much I can spend with privacy calm that is actually super easy by going to their website with privacy calm /e bills box making a card I can make a new card give it a nickname such as work expenses and set a monthly limit so that I cannot spend any more than X amount of dollars each month which means I can set say a 500 dollar per month budget for things I can buy for work and for reviews and things like that and I can't spend any more of that I can keep in control of my finances because relying on my judgment that's that's not gonna work out so head to privacy comm /e Post Vox to learn more sign up for free and get yourself five dollars of free credit for my subscribers for a limited time by signing up and it's free money privacy comm slash people's box yo check it out I highly recommend it even my wife is super impressed by it especially since it helps me budget it lives it's really quiet I'm actually impressed at how quiet it is all right well according to the diagnostic codes and stuff it appears to maybe be rejecting my 970 for some reason not sure what's up with that so we're gonna try moving it down to the other 16x slot failing that I'm gonna put in this 1080 and see if we have any better results it may be the powers toy I don't know so we're gonna start by moving it down and switching power leads we're gonna start switching power leads then moving it down all right we have posted we have sixteen gigabytes of RAM ninety-five 94.7 gigahertz 970 is running so for whatever reason that power lead just wasn't working but we're good to go so I don't need my 1080 that can go back to my stream rig and I can get testing with some VR so I ended up going a little slightly different direction with this build from what we had started with that older PC I am at some point going to take out and clean up and that'll be its own separate video but I ran out of daylight to really do that today and it was just more time than I wanted to invest in it this was the spend some spare time getting rid of some old stuff or putting it to better use so I can compact it together get rid of a lot of PC screws that were floating around a lot of hardware crunched into this box that way I can serve a purpose that I've been wanting to do for a while so instead we went this with the CyberPower case which was never really used by me it was sent to me with a bunch of other spare parts that I've just kind of had lying around and it's taking up space in my studio floor and driving me nuts so I finally got to put that to use and then I used those gam Deus Aeolus m1 fans that I got sent for the fan pack for review and I did that CPU cooler review so I've got poor RGB fans just to add some color to it it looks ridiculous it's fine haha and then for cooling the 95 90 we actually went with the Noctua in HD 14 I thought it was a D 15 it's actually the D 14 which is the older one and I know this because the bigger fans that I have for my three different deep 15 units down there did not fit it and I had to specifically find these smaller fans but it still it fits within the case it is super quiet especially with the tempered side glass panel on and then we've got my 970 which I bought new back when it was a really good value and then I even got a $30.00 refund as part of that lawsuit I went with a WD one terabyte blue hard drive and a kingston 120 gig SSD should be plenty enough for a few VR games and just getting this going did a decent job of cable managing it I had to pull out this power lead so that part doesn't look like it but the rest is fairly well cable managed the fans actually have super-long fan cables so I'm using the fans themselves with the RAM to like hide the cables up under it pretty neat and overall I don't think it turned out pretty good it's not polished it's not clean it's a little dusty a little beat-up old parts weird configuration but that was the point right spare parts PR gaming rig I'll post a little bit of VR footage with this although it'll be at 30fps cuz that's what the rest of this video is but yeah thank you so much for watching this video I've been enjoying doing these weird weekend projects three hours later alright well I officially have to call it quits on this project I don't like ending videos of projects on like a failed note especially when the point wasn't to make it like a trial and error multi-part thing like my Tesla four-plex series but holy crap this thing has caused me nothing but stress and frustration and hasn't let me play a lick of VR I the total the issues that I've run into since I stopped recording last time after running fine for hours suddenly the entire system just started hanging and it was done I spent forever trying to figure out what it was I swapped out the RAM I receded the CPU along the way the process when I went to receipt the CPU somehow the processor had already become like fused to the cold plate of the cooler the I don't know if I tightened it down too tight the first time or if that knocked to a pace I used which I thought was relatively recent was just really old or what but like it ripped right out of that socket the one thing I always say to do not to do as I was as my camera battery died the one thing I always wore the one thing I always weren't about happening with AMD CPUs just happened thankfully no pins were bent but got it receded changed out the RAM didn't seem to help I I I didn't know what else to try eventually I swapped out the spinning disk hard drive that games were installing to I original I'd originally unplugged the SSD I figured this SSD is really old getting pegged so I unplugged that and just plugged in the USB windows installer again to try reinstalling Windows and it still hung on the windows installer USB Drive like okay eventually what I thought was the solution was pulling out the spinning disk the WD blue I had which is ancient it the thing is at least ten years old probably I pulled that out swapped it to a new I think owd green hard drive which was equally ancient but it was already faster plugged it in lasted four hours again without hanging I ended up installing all of my Steam games all of my VR games getting it set up brought over and installed behind the combined the TV and then I went to plug in the oculus rift and run that set up and it wasn't like in the USB ports because the as media USB ports on the the FX series are some of the worst USB 3 ports you will ever encounter and literally as the oculus app is trying to like ping them and make sure they're working they're just sitting there rapidly do-do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do as its disconnecting and reconnecting traded a couple different times didn't work finally installed a noriko cheapo USB 3 card which i have a separate video i shot in like February I need to finally edit about why these are bad but it's all I have available again spare parts we are rig installed a USB 3 card and they weren't even being detected at all and then once I was the headset USB the report was detected through the card but the sensors were not they still weren't working on the onboard USB 3 finally I just tried USB 2 apparently you can just use them on USB 2 ports thought that was going great and then literally as its trying to like confirm that it can track the controllers I got a blue screen and then a system Hey and then a blue screen and it's just a make and a blue screen two days many hours of tinkering with this later and I'm just gonna assume that somewhere the motherboard or the CPU or maybe even the graphics card one some of this hardware which has been a main rig of a few different you know for me and for my wife at one point since 2014 it is five years old it has been under so much constant abuse and use something about it is dead and I just I'm done a rich admittedly part of this video was you know part of the point of this video was to kind of get me back into VR content and kind of bait potential sponsors or companies that might want to work together to build another VR rig and do more VR coverage but I at least wanted to actually play beat Sabre for once I even had our horse taco one of our longest discord members actually donated me beat Sabre because I couldn't buy it right now and I literally can't play it I'm pissed so yeah so since like I said this was meant to be bait to get that so I hopefully will have a part two to this where I do partner with the company to build a VR rig because I thought I was doing great I combined a bunch of old hardware that was sitting around taking up space got it packed behind my TV where you wouldn't really see it anymore and I can't play VR sorry to end the video on this note it was supposed to be you don't need a powerful rig to run VR 970 is like the minimum requirements and for games like beat saber it's totally fine FX 95 90 totally fine but the problem of using older use hardware is there's always gonna be little issues that you can't totally track down or fix and that just sucks so thank you for watching hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for hopefully not more of these kinds of tech failures and hopefully we have another VR video in the future I was actually hoping to use this to play clone hero - it's been forever since I've played guitar hero I'll see you next time\n"