Hello everybody:
I am, again, having great difficulty in VR, with a blue “Your IP is:” message box, continuously appearing right in the midle of my VR view.
I have a Reverb G2 headset.
At times, I have briefly noticed a small black rectangle with the message: “What is my IP?” that quickly disappears, before that blue sign appears.
In the past, I had found a post that suggested disabling the notifications to my headset, which worked.
But this time, after SU12, notwithstanding that I disabled those notifications, I cannot get rid of those blue messages, that appear continuously.
I read somewhere, to disable any app that is trying to notify me that my IP changed, but I don’t know how to find such an app, working in my PC.
It appears to be a specific Reverb G2 issue, related to WMR?
Any suggestions, are greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Roberto
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I too have a G2, I have never seen any popup like this.
It almost certainly is unrelated to anything WMR or G2.
To me sounds like some firewall or antivirus sending windows notifications, which in WMR display by default (you can disable this in the WMR settings).
Try disabling that setting here.
But the root cause must be some other software on your system.
It’s been reported a few times over the years and best guess seems to be some sort of WMR voice recognition glitch. Unless you use it you can turn that feature you can turn it off in ‘Settings > Mixed Reality > Audio & Speech > Speech Recognition for Windows Mixed Reality’.
@LabVirtual I had this problem continuously on Win 10, almost every session, a least once, and it usually coincided with cpu saturation during flying. When all the cores were maxed out loading scenery or something, especially with high TLOD, that’s when it would appear. Seemed like some WMR process wasn’t getting enough cpu time and would throw random errors. The higher my sim settings the more quickly it would happen.
I tried everything to get rid of it and never could. My processor was very old though, and easily overwhelmed.
Since moving to Windows 11 and an AMD 7700x, and then 7950x3d, I haven’t seen it once in 5 months.
Thank you everybody.
I will try all your suggestions, hopefully one of them will work.
I’ll report back.
Regards,
Roberto
I just started getting this popup today so I am also going to try these suggestions.
John.
I tried the suggested solutions, but without any luck.
I have not changed to Win11, as Ramasurinen suggested, because it is asking for a program called TPM 2.0, which requires that I get into my BIOS to check or install it. I am not that versed!
However, today, I have started to suspect that some of my connections/apps to VATSIM (I just started this in VR) might have to do something with my issues, particularly with a couple of updates that were required after SU12.
I have installed last week: vPilot, Webserver and VSR.
I did a flight today, off the VATSIM network, and I had no issues with the blue “Your IP is..” message.
I will now try a few flights, adding each of the mentioned components and we’ll see what happens.
I’ll report.
Regards,
Roberto
I have, unfortunately, confirmed that VATSIM seems to be my issue.
I started and prepared a flight, and a moment after I started vPilot to connect to the VATSIM network, the blue box with the message appeared.
I remained in the flight, just disconnected vPilot, and then I had no problems for the remaining 45 minute flight.
So now, to start some searching to see if there are any vPilot/Reverb G2/WMR conflicts.
Regards,
Roberto
If you put on your headset and say ‘What’s my IP?’ does it show the box?
Hi Notsofearless:
I just tried that, but the box does not show.
I think that I have disabled notifications to the headset, speech recognition, etc., as suggested by others above.
Thanks
Regards,
Roberto
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I think that this has something to do with it. I think that there is some windows app (I am on Windows 11) that is hearing something (noise) it interprets as “what is my IP” and then provides the answer. I have searched for the app but haven’t found anything yet.
John
Hi GlitteryGecko5:
I also think that Notsofearless is heading us in the right direction.
At times, very briefly, I see get to see in my headset a small black box with white border, that has “What is my IP” texted in white inside. It remains for a “mili-second”, disappears and soon thereafter, the blue box appears.
But, unfortunately, like you, I don’t know where or how to search for an application/program that might be generating that question in my system.
Nevertheless, the comments here have been very very helpful.
Regards,
Roberto
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I think maybe for me changing the Mixed Reality audio setting for voice recognition to “off” is working for me. Have now completed a couple of flights without any little boxes showing up.
settings>mixed reality>audio and voice>voice recognition = off.
John.
To finalize with my most recent experience.
If I flew in VR in the sim, without external connections to other networks, I got no blue message.
When I connected to VATSIM with vPilot, the small box asking “What is my IP..” appeared for a moment, and then the blue “Your IP is ..” box appeared in VR. (None of this happens in 2D)
So, I excluded vPilot, WMR, Steam and MSFS from Windows Security and also, I turned off notifications as suggested by several folks above.
Neverheless, yesterday, within one minute of starting vPilot, both boxed messages appeared (talk about frustration!). I got out of VR, waited a minute or so in 2D, then went back to VR and, to my suprise, I was able to complete a 1:30hr flight without any additional interruptions.
I will try a few more flights and see if this continues, which would be great!
However, if the problem returns only while connecting to VATSIM, I will have to seriously think about using the netwrok in 2D or not fly in VATSIM.
Difficult choices.
Thanks again to everybody.
Regards
Roberto
Have you turned off voice recognition in Mixed Reality settings?
Hello to all:
I am very embarrassed to confess that I think I found the main reason for my issues.
My sim computer is a relatively new one (1.5 years)
My “old” computer, is now used for everything else.
My wife has a laptop for her work.
Yesterday, my “old” computer was “asleep”. When I started the sim computer, the “old” one woke up.
I slapped my forehead. I had totally forgotten that they are connected via a home private network, that liekely assigns IPs to each one, when another is connected, or something like that.
I removed my sim computer from the private network and I have already had three flights on the VATSIM network, without any issues with the “Your IP is..” blue box.
Notwithstanding my embarrassment, I post this so that it might help somebody else with a similar issue.
Thanks to everybody for their comments and advice.
Regards,
Roberto
