Jittery tracking

[Yippee38]

I've searched the forums, but haven't seen anything that has helped me.

Last week I used my TrackIR 3 (+ vector expansion) without any problem. I've been gone all week, and today I went to use it again. Today, when I logged into Aces High II, the view was very jittery. It's like I'm making very small, regular oscillations with my head, but, of course, I'm not.

I tried restarting the TrackIR software and rebooting. I also made sure nothing behind me is reflecting the IR. There are no "extra" reflections in the tracking window. I uninstalled the TrackIR software, rebooted, and installed the latest version (I had version 4.1.036, and now have 4.1.037.FinalB). Same problem.

One thing that I noticed that seems unusual, but could be just my memory is that the reflections in the tracking screen appear very low resolution compared to what I remember then being. I'll link to an image, so you can see what I mean. BTW, I can definitely see the jitters in the tracking window.


Oh yeah. Aces High II did release two new patches since last week, but I don't see any forum posts (here or there) indicating that those patches have caused any other TrackIR users problems.

Any suggestions on what I can do to get the steady head tracking again?

[VincentG]

2 things.

1 - Try washing the trackclip itself, with some warm soapy water.

2 - You should use a different hat, or cover up the reflector built into the brim of the hat, as you should only see 3 objects in the camera view, not 4.

[Yippee38]

Ok. I can try that. I never had a problem with the hat reflector.

[Yippee38]

I covered the hat reflector, cleaned the reflectors on the clip, and even cleaned the sending unit lens. That didn't help. Any other suggestions?

BTW, I was able to verify that the problem is not just in Aces High II. I also got it in other sims. The amount of jitters varies based on the profile. I use a very aggressive profile in AH, whereas in other sims like iRacing and IL-2 I use the standard profiles. Those show far fewer jitters. The profile I'm using in AH is the same one I've been using for years without jitters.

[VincentG]

have you tried the device on another system?

[Yippee38]

No. Don't have another system with sims loaded.

[VincentG]

How about with just the TrackIR software?

[Yippee38]

I'll give that a shot.

[Yippee38]

Much better on the other PC. Check out this image:


Dunno why the image is so small. Right-click and View Image to see full size.

[Yippee38]

I have to resurrect this thread since I'm still having problems. As you can see above, I am having problems with TIR on my main PC. I installed it on my wife's PC and it worked fine. Every time I try to use the TIR, the tracking window shows very low resolution IR dots. I have to unplug the unit and plug it back in. When I do that, it works fine. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the software, but that didn't help. Any suggestions?