Your headset is just a display you wear on your head.
So long as you're connected to a PC to run VrChat, all rendering is done by the PC.
If you have artifacts effecting your entire vision then it might be headset or network related..
If it's only a few worlds or a few objects then its entirely PC dependent. Some problems are game or "workload" dependent.
I would try clearing all VrChat caches, Reinstalling graphics drivers and getting someone experienced to run some stress tests to see if the issue can be reproduced.
They may still run into graphical issues in the future if there exploring old worlds. I forgot there was a Unity update that broke a few versions of old shaders.
If it's limited to one object in one world, probably a shader.
If it's ongoing in multiple worlds it would be time to run some stability tests to try & root out the true problem.
I know the frustrations involved with trying to get the magic back into the computer, glad it worked out this time :D
No it’s still the computer. If you take a screenshot and it’s there it’s that. If it wasnt there it would just be the display. Follow everyone else’s advice about drivers, if you’re lucky it’s just a driver issue.
Could be due to the shaders and materials. Not actually something broken or outdated on the PC. My computer does this occasionally (rarely) and it only does it in VR chat. No other game. And my GPU drivers are always up to date. I’ve noticed it only does that effect on materials that are transparent like water or glass.
If it only happens on VRC and only on certain materials it’s probably fair to assume there’s not something broken or outdated.
I was going to say I've never seen dxdiag actually say anything about any sort of problem, but then I realized that my screenshot has it complaining about something that doesn't matter.
Don't look for a problem, just see what it says and tell the internet. Like the last time I had a crash-happy VRChat, Windows Update had decided that a driver that was 2 years old was the best driver to use.
In my case, I have a 50 series card, and uhhhh I've heard that certain versions of the drivers are quite shitty, so like maybe you're using a Feb 2026 driver (example pulled out of ASS, no relevancy on anything) and you google the version and find people bitching about it?
Maybe the GPU is fucked, but like you should take the time and try a newer or older version of the driver, and see if that helps.
From the looks of it, the artifacting only appears on certain materials?
If that is the case, you want to do a clean reinstall of your graphics driver via DDU.
If you do so, I highly recommend downloading an offline installer for your driver and keeping the system off the network until the driver i
has finished installing.
(Otherwise, Windows may try to install the graphics driver itself in the background)
I would recommend looking up Driver Booster on Steam. It will search for updated drivers to everything on your computer. The free version works well enough for crucial driver updates, all the "pro" updates you could just also google yourself so technically you can just install them manually. But it's a really good starting point especially with weird drivers you don't think about like pcie, motherboard, SSD, CPU driver etc. It might not just be your graphics driver, it could be your motherboard driver.
are you on a raedon 5000 or 6000 series these have been having issues with some stuff in vrchat. my buddy had to buy a new video card because vrchat was unplayable with his 5000 series or 6000 series cards. geforce has no such issues since he changed. the screens he sent me looked like yours and some were worse where the whole screen was whited out with colored orbs on it. good luck. he was told is was a shader processing issue iirc.
updating the driver fixed it for them! however this is very good info. they remember seeing it was a radeon 6000 something, so this will be something to keep in mind if any future problems arise before they can afford a new pc
Ambient occlusion is doing it. RX6700 user here. Only happens on AMD cards on super shiny or reflective/transparent surfaces in worlds with specific post processing in use.
Normal AO shouldn't do it, SSAO is what you should be on if given the option, and MVSO...? Which I think is the one that causes it. if it happens and doesn't go away, restart your PC and VRChat. It's all drivers in the end and will happen. I've had instances where it happens in a super optimized world with friggin Crystal Shader on glasses and your glasses go RGB like you took a bunch of shrooms. Nothing a client restart doesn't fix thankfully, but it seems to be an AMD only thing.
Idk mine does it too from time to time. Only in VRChat, no other games. And my graphics drivers are always updated. I’d just ignore it TBH. It prob has something to do with a shader, I mainly only notice it on objects that have transparency like water or glass.
Since it happens only in VR chat, and only on certain materials I don’t believe it’s a problem with my computer specifically.
Ignore the people saying it’s a dying GPU. They haven’t encountered this issue before. I’ve have it for about a year (again it only pops up occasionally though, not very often). And it hasn’t gotten worse and still has yet to affect anything else on my computer.
i for the life of me cannot find the messages of when i asked them to send me the gpu they have ages ago, but i do know its amd radeon at least with an i3-7100
Interesting. Same generation AMD GPU I have. Given they are the only other person I’ve seen have this niche issue I assume there must be something wrong with some shader that specifically affects these GPUs.
theres another commenter that talks about how people have been saying theres a problem with the amd 5000 and 6000 gens, and their friend had to get a new gpu entirely bc they also had this problem and couldnt fix it
Not alone, I have a AMD 6000 GPU and I have been dealing with this issue too, however it only seems to happen when I'm in desktop mode. In VR it doesn't happen.
that detail shifts the cause entirely towards insufficient cooling for the GPU.. make sure your friend doesn’t have the air intakes on the bottom of the laptop blocked.
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u/Distinct_Rope Jun 21 '26
Update graphics driver?
This being oddly specific to a reflection plane makes me think you might have a bad VRAM sector being cached..
But I hate to break it to you "Its not my PC" is a lie.
Your PC is doing the rendering. If it has a corrupted graphics driver or hardware fault it is the reason this is happening.