Rift S not working with Meta
Hi Everyone, I hope someone can help me, Rift S tries to do guardian setup in headset but screen goes black, Link app closes itself then opens and the cycle continues. My son really wants to play, please help 🙏
Things I’ve already tried:
- Confirmed this is an Oculus Rift S.
- This exact Rift S used to work on this same Windows 10 laptop.
- Laptop has GTX 1060, USB 3.0, and Mini DisplayPort.
- Installed/repaired Meta Horizon Link.
- Fully uninstalled Meta Horizon Link, restarted, renamed leftover Oculus folder, and reinstalled fresh.
- Updated NVIDIA driver.
- Switched from NVIDIA Studio Driver to Game Ready Driver.
- Rolled back NVIDIA driver through Device Manager.
- Restarted Oculus VR Runtime Service multiple times.
- Restarted laptop multiple times.
- Set Meta/OpenXR runtime as default.
- Confirmed Windows power plan is on High Performance.
- Confirmed USB selective suspend is disabled.
- Turned off USB power saving in Device Manager where available.
- Tried Rift S USB directly in both blue USB 3.0 laptop ports.
- Tried a powered Sabrent USB 3.0 hub with wall power.
- Removed other USB devices during testing.
- Checked Windows camera privacy permissions, including desktop app camera access.
- Confirmed Meta appears under desktop apps for camera access.
- Improved room lighting after a tracking/low-light warning.
- Removed and re-added the Rift S in Meta Horizon Link.
- Ran Oculus/Meta Log Gatherer.
- Logs showed headset/device detection issues at times, including cameras/devices not being detected.
- Found Unknown USB Device / Device Descriptor Request Failed entries in Device Manager.
- Uninstalled the bad Unknown USB entries and Rift S USB Hub entries.
- Restarted and let Windows rebuild the Rift S USB devices.
- After rebuild, the Unknown USB Device errors did not come back.
- Device Manager now shows 2 Rift S USB Hub entries when USB is plugged in.
- Tested USB-only before plugging in DisplayPort.
- Plugging in DisplayPort gives green checks, but headset still goes black.
- Tried Wi-Fi off/on workaround.
- Tried blocking OculusDash.exe in Windows Firewall, then removed the rules after it didn’t fix it.
- Repaired Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables.
- Added OVRServer_x64.exe to Windows Graphics Settings and tried Power Saving, then reverted/removed after it didn’t fix it.
- Used Oculus Debug Tool and disabled Asynchronous Spacewarp.
Current behavior:
USB and DisplayPort can both check green in Meta Horizon Link. The headset sometimes shows the Oculus/Meta virtual library or setup screen briefly, then goes black. Meta Horizon Link closes and reopens by itself in a loop. Latest clear error was that headset tracking isn’t working, then Meta Horizon Link closed itself.