The headline of this put up makes it appear a contact extra innocuous than the story might result in, at the least in case you consider the rumor mills abound. There has been an ongoing challenge with AMD methods utilizing Ryzen CPUs and the HTC Vive wi-fi adapter (powered by Intel WiGig) to the place the methods have frozen and even had a BSOD. HTC acknowledged this as early as Nov, 2018, noting that they’ve seen this with a subset of Ryzen-based motherboards when the PCIe wi-fi adapter is put in and working. It took till final week to get an answer of types, and sadly experiences from customers point out this isn’t a real repair for everybody.
The hotfix replace 1.20190410.zero was made accessible April 25 to try to fight this challenge, which was garnering a number of consideration within the VR-community on whether or not there was extra Intel may very well be doing to assist AMD clients. This hotfix replace is on the market robotically as soon as an finish consumer with the Vive wi-fi adapter checks for an replace, and HTC acknowledge that they proceed to check this, in addition to accomplice with Intel and AMD to assist resolve this as soon as and for all. In the meantime, customers report blended success so far, together with some we all know personally as effectively, and it stays a thorn within the aspect of wi-fi VR to get to the PC efficiently.
