Since a couple of days I experience an annoyance while flying in VR, which did not exist in the past.
Often, sometimes several times during a flight in VR, I suddenly loose the mouse. I have to exit VR, and sure enough, some program wants to tell me something important, suggests that an update of itself is available or some other kind of nonsense (from a flight simmer‘s perspective).
I tried to remedy this by switching all notifications off. That helped, but today it happened again: the mouse was gone. The culprit this time: OneDrive! It had opened Edge and wanted to show me some fotos from 1 year ago. I was not amused. So now, when flying I will also have to exit OneDrive before starting my flight?
I activated game mode, but that did not do anything to stop the pop-ups during my VR session.
Any thoughts or comments? Am I the only one with this issue?
Hello @StanTGM,
You can disable Windows notifications by toggling this Setting:
Alternatively, if you would like to keep notifications enabled but not have them interrupt your simming session, you can temporarily activate Do Not Disturb mode.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
Thanks!
But as I wrote, I had already switched notifications off.
Today, OneDrive was to blame for loss of mouse, disturbing my VR session. Apparently, OneDrive does not care about the notifications setting…
There’s also an app-specific setting for OneDrive notifications that you can try disabling:
Thanks,
MSFS Team
Thanks again for the prompt answer!
I‘m still puzzled: I had set notifications to off - should that not apply to all apps, including OneDrive?
And when I came out of VR (because of mouse loss) I saw that OneDrive Fotos was active as a tab in Edge. So by some magic, Edge had opened and showed the OneDrive tab. Apparently, there is more background stuff going on, stuff that is unaffected by the Notifications setting…
