So after a few weeks hiatus I went to play Dirt Rally 2.0 again, and found that there was a 19GB update to download. I thought that was kind of weird, since the Colin McRae update was supposed to be the last content for the game. Whatever, I waited for the update to finish so I could get playing.
Except that now, VR is totalled F'ed after the update. Steam VR is totally unuseable, it will completely freeze visually for a good 5-10 seconds while audio continues to play, before I get about 2 seconds of normal framerate and then it freezes for another 5-10 seconds. Also if I look away even slightly from the position of the menu screen it disappears and my steam loading background shows. In Oculus mode, the game is playable for roughly 10-15 minutes until I get a crash to desktop. This has consistently happened 3 times in a row now, and is extremely frustrating (to say the least) when I am playing a national championship (sim substitute due to COVID) and I get instant DNFd because of the game crash.
Is anyone else experiencing these issues? I am playing with the following hardware:
Oculus Rift S
Ryzen 3600 processor
MSI B450M Mortar motherboard
Nvidia GTX 980 Ti
16GB RAM
The game worked flawlessly in VR on this exact hardware until the most recent update. I couldn't say whether the issue is exclusive to VR, as I don't play flatscreen on this rig.