Unusual problem

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Unusual problem

Joe Donegan 0

Hello I have an unusual problem, I am 95% sure that OBS is disconnecting my PSVR2 contollers When I open OBS on my PC, my PSVR2 controllers feel a bit floaty for a second and then disconnect As soon as I close OBS the controllers will work fine I have played Pavlov VR for half an hour without OBS with not one problem, but as soon as OBS opens, there it is again It seems to only happen when OBS is visible on the desktop I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling OBS with the settings deleted and it still happens, so it might be something in my GPU settings? I don't know PC Intel i9 14900ks RTX 4080 SUPER 32GB DDR4 RAM 2TB SSD

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Emma1-N 11,285 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Welcome Joe Donegan,

Thank you for providing the details. Since the controllers work normally when OBS is closed and disconnect shortly after OBS is opened, this appears to be related to how OBS interacts with your system rather than the PSVR2 hardware itself.

A few questions to help narrow this down:

Does the issue occur if OBS is running minimized, or only when the OBS window is visible?
Are you using the standard OBS installation or any OBS plugins?
Is OBS using "Game Capture", "Window Capture", or "Display Capture" when the problem occurs?

As a quick test, create a new empty OBS scene with no capture sources and check whether the controllers still disconnect. This will help determine whether the issue is caused by OBS itself or by a specific capture source.

Please let me know the results, and I can continue troubleshooting from there.

Joe Donegan 0 Reputation points

2026-09-02T06:21:38.0566667+00:00

If I minimise OBS the controllers regain function but they lose it again a short few seconds after bringing OBS back up

I am using the OBS Bakcground Removal Plugin but I did also have Open VR installed it is now removed though
I tried OBS with no sources and it still did the same thing
I have also tried Meld Studio and Meld worked for a bit longer, but it cut off the controllers as soon as I joined a game
I also have a secondary, possibly related problem where the mouse cursor disappears from the right side of the screen when I use the VR controllers, it is visible during Desktop view within VR, but when I try going back to Desktop outside of VR, the mouse is not visible on the right half of the screen. It does function though. I use Windows+CTRL+Shift+B to reset the GPU and it reappears
Emma1-N 11,285 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-09-03T05:00:16.2033333+00:00
Hello Joe Donegan,

Check GPU Power Settings:

Open NVIDIA Control Panel

Go to Manage 3D Settings

Set Power management mode to Prefer maximum performance

Apply the change and test OBS again.