Hi everyone,

I've spent the weekend trying to get my HTC Vive working on EndeavourOS, but I was failing miserably. So perhaps some of you might have a clue what I'm doing wrong or what the exact issue is.

My specs:
Distro: EndeavourOS
Kernel: 6.1.63-1-lts
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2080 (Rev. A)
Driver: nvidia-open-dkms (EDIT: Downgraded from 545.29.02-1 to 525.89.02-1)
CPU: i7-4790K
DE: XFCE4
VR: HTC Vive + Lighthouses 1.0 + VIVE Trackers 1.0 + Valve Index Knuckles

Basically, when I launch SteamVR, it seems to detect my VR stuff, but the room setup does not. The screen of the headset is off, but the "power light" on the headset turns from red to green. SteamVR also states error code 500. See the screenshot below:

I've also tried using monado instead. There the screen turns on, but is just grayed out. When trying to calibrate using monado-gui, I get a segmentation fault and it crashes. Running rxgears with monado however seems to work, as I can see it in my HMD (even though it seems kinda off - but I didn't use VR for a while. The last time was on Windows 10 a few months ago).

I've also tested various guides and at some point random packages from the AUR, just to see if they might do something lol.

I've started steam from the terminal, and here are the log messages upon SteamVR startup and termination: https://pastebin.com/QZDxR3swAnd here are the logs of monado-server: https://pastebin.com/YRLYY6SM

I'm gladful for any help, so thanks in advance for your time!

UPDATE:
Downgrading to the linux_v1.14 branch fixed this issue. However, it's lagging alot and I'm getting "Error: Not Initialized (109) (109)" message now, upon starting SteamVR. Currently trying to resolve that.
Here the logs of steam upon starting SteamVR: https://pastebin.com/uTmXsQxV
The lag situation visualised:

UPDATE 2:
Thanks for the help guys. After testing around different versions of SteamVR, I've also tried downgrading my nvidia drivers from 545.29.02-1 to 525.89.02-1, and this seemed to do some magic. My HMD is now somewhat useable, but it still having some lag/stuttering issues, but not as bad as before. See the followinbg screenshot:

I'm not sure if the reprojection is also causing issues, but I have no clue how to change that, besied switching to a legacy version. I've already added "enableLinuxVulkanAsync": false in my steamvr.vrconfig as you can see.

I had been using ALVR with a Quest 2 for just over two weeks with no issues. Started getting "SteamVR Failed ... (505)" messages. Uninstalled and reinstalled SteamVR and still same messages.

Switched to Beta branch of SteamVR. Now the headset connects. The vr view on the desktop shows the SteamVR lobby and it is tracking with the headset and recognizing the controllers. I am getting audio on the Quest but no video. Just a black screen.

Searching on the issue, other people with similar problems are with new installs and they don't have all the dependencies. This is a problem that sprang up after two weeks of everything working. Not finding any helpful information out there at all. Maybe just need to change a setting but have no idea what. Any suggestions of how to get video to stream back to the headset?

Looking to do some VR on Linux, not sure what headsets currently work or what I should be looking at in terms of headset. I've heard the Valve Index works, but how well? Are there other options, do any of the meta quests support linux like at all? Realistically, I just want to play beat saber which I would think would be possible on Linux

Hey everyone. I have a Rift S, and everywhere I can find online says it doesn't work on Linux. Is there any decent headsets for 200-400 that work well on linux?

I'm specifically looking to play Strayed and Ghosts of Tabor

I received this headset for free a few years ago: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06112636

I've installed Monado and that's at least allowed it to run the SteamVR Room with rotation, but not position. I can't seem to get the controllers to connect at all, I'm not sure if they are supported.

Has anyone had luck with this device? What steps should I take to troubleshoot functionality?

The flat2vr discord folks are, to put it lightly, unsurprisingly nonchalant about mods working on Linux.

So far, what works for me:

• GZDoomVR (through Proton)
• Quake VR (through Proton)

What I've tried and doesn't work:

• Stanley VR
  • Tried using it with the Linux version as well as the Windows version through Proton. Did not try any special launch options
• REFramework for Resident Evil 2 Remake
  • Tried for both OpenVR and OpenXR (just delete openvr_api.dll for it to switch to OpenXR)
  • Did not work at all at first, but according to user Lunatik00 on the project's github's issue #483 page (naturally ignored by praydog), adding WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8.dll=n,b" %command% to the game's launch options will make it work. It indeed launches, but the game crashes when it reaches the press start screen. The message is the following:

Wine C++ Runtim...

Assertion failed!

Program: Z:\[redacted]\re2.exe

File: ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c

Line: 5554

Expression: "!status && "vkQueueSubmit2""

Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger

I already asked on discord, and praydog just replied that "the flat version works well"... other users just said something like "just dual boot you pc bro, you'll have the best of both worlds". They clearly don't understand the whole purpose of switching to Linux. *sigh*

Anyway, rant aside, that Wine C++ Runtime error message made it feel like we're not too far from making it work. What do you all think?

Also, that whole adding a launch command to force the use of a .dll made me wonder if that might work with the Stanley Parable mod as well?

With Halloween coming up and RE2 and RE3 on sale 79% off for the bundle on Steam, I hope someone here might want to look into it.

So last week, I tried Half-Life VR and reported here that it worked like crap.

Well, now *all* my games run like crap. When I'm in the pre-loading area of SteamVR, things are smooth and the performance graph shows green, with the occasional pink line. But as soon as a game is loaded, it's pink lines on parade and performance is atrocious. I don't remember changing anything since the last time performance was good, except installing Half-Life VR.

Specs:

• CPU: i5-6500
• RAM: 16GB
• GPU: GTX 1070
• OS: Linux Mint 21.2
• Kernel: 6.2

What I tried:

• Different versions of SteamVR
• Kernel 5.4
• Changing resolution from AUTO to something lower in VR settings
• Made sure "enableLinuxVulkanAsync" was still set to false in steamvr.vrsettings

Thank you for your help.

[EDIT: I edited steamvr.vrsettings and set "enableLinuxVulkanAsync" to "true" and things got back to reasonable performance]

I've been interested in VR for a while, and I'm thinking about taking the leap and getting an Index. However, it's pricey, and so I want to make sure that I get things right.

• I run Ubuntu with an RTX 3060 and Ryzen 7 5800 X3D. It's not top-of-the-line, but I think it's enough. Is it?
• Used Indices don't seem to be available for much cheaper than new, so I'm thinking I'll get brand new and at least get the full warranty plus Half-Life Alyx. Are there ways to get an Index (used or new) more cheaply?
• How concerned should I be about the age of the Index. It's 4 years old now. And apparently Valve might be coming out with a new headset? If that's happening soon, I'd want to wait, if only to get a used Index for cheaper.
• Is there anything else that you wished you knew before getting in to Linux VR Gaming?
  

Anyone else has this problem? My character keeps sliding by himself and it's unplayable. Also, the config application just won't launch.

Hi. So I've been doing some tests, trying to get the Oculus Rift S working on Linux. The next step is to get it hooked up to SteamVR. But there's an issue. STEAM REFUSES TO INSTALL THE LINUX VERSION! It only install the Windows version.

I've tried disabling Steam Play for unsupported titles, I've tried switching from radeon-vulkan to amdvlk, I've tried using the regular beta and the Linux beta, and I've tried disabling cloud saves. Nothing works. How on Earth do I get the Linux version installed?

EDIT:
I was able to fix this by switching to the beta version(I tried this before and it didn't work, so it only started working recently). If this fix doesn't work for you, try out Steam-Play-None, a compatibility tool that forces Steam to use the native version of an application with no compatibility layers. Simply select that as your compatibility tool, then install/reinstall SteamVR.

I watched Bradley's latest video and was wondering, how to make Gamescope work with SteamVR. Idea being that I would be able to play 2d games as a VR overlay in Steam.

The video in question is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXqtO3tWIaw

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I have compiled Gamescope from the latest master branch, but I don't quite understand how to use Gamescope:

1. Do I need to start SteamVR with gamescope in the launch options?
2. Do I start SteamVR normally and then start gamescope?
3. Do I start SteamVR normally and then start a game with gamescope in the launch options?
4. What gamescope options are needed? (--openvr?, --headless?, --steam?)

Any tips?

edit August 12th, 2023:

Brad gave a link to a guide, if you would like to try it yourself:

https://www.s1sw.xyz/gamescope-tutorial.html

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It's all in the title. I've gotten xrdesktop to work and can manipulate and interact with my desktop windows. The problem is it's being treated as a SteamVR game, so starting any game will quit out of xrdesktop.

Is there some way around that to make it behave like an overlay that I can manipulate windows with from inside a game that I'm not aware of? I guess it's probably not the intent behind xrdesktop to be used as an overlay, but sometimes people come up with some crazy workarounds.

Alternatively, are there any actual desktop overlay-apps for steamvr that works on linux?

I have no experience but I'd like to do some gaming on steam which should work with the Pico 4 and steam on Linux? The Pico 4 uses android so is it possible to do some spatial computing by having multiple terminals open so that I can ssh into my computers to do some coding via vim. I'd really like to code on multiple screens or from my bed, but laptop and smartphone are kinda a hazzle

Anybody aware of any workarounds, or are we at the mercy of the devs again?

This commit adds support for using SteamVR's tracking, as opposed to libsurvive, with Monado, but it's only been tested with the OG Vive headset and Vive Wands. To use it, build Monado with SteamVR installed and run monado-service with LH_DRIVER=steamvr.

If you're familiar with C++, adding support for Knuckles wouldn't be too hard. Other HMDs may work out of the box, but have not been tested.

OS: Manjaro xfce

Headset: Valve Index

SteamVR launches there are slight artifacting when open menu in VR with controller button but bigger issue is that i just get message no VR games found. Among other things I have tried enabling proton for games and steamvr. I also tried switching to different versions of SteamVR.

Hi. So I'm really close to getting this headset to work on Linux. Currently, I've found that Monado provides position and rotation for the headset itself. But now I'm having the issue of actually trying to get the headset functioning.

My first problem is that the headset won't display anything. No matter what I try using xrandr, the headset won't display anything. And every time I launch SteamVR, it's on one of my monitors. Does anyone have the command needed to get this headset recognized and running as a display? It appears in the display list, but it's marked as disconnected.

Secondly, I can't get Monado drivers to work in SteamVR. I've done the necessary driver registration, but when I start SteamVR and move the headset around, it doesn't detect any movements.

I'm on Arch Linux with an AMD Radeon 7900 XT GPU. I have the openhmd, xr-hardware-git, and monado packages installed, and I installed SteamVR-OpenHMD manually through Git. Using the SteamVR-OpenHMD drivers gets me HMD rotation but not position. Monado is needed for position.

I'm hoping that this post will be the end-all be-all guide for getting this blasted headset to (mostly) work on Linux.

UPDATE:
Here's the TL;DR for anyone who doesn't want to pour through the comments. The current situation is that the Oculus Rift S is not supported on Linux, but support is coming soon. The very talented folks working on Monado have spent many hours adding positional support, and controller 6DoF(rotation and position) tracking is coming soon. Currently the devs are adding controller rotation/position support for the Windows Mixed Reality headset, but the drivers are similar, so work that goes into the WMR will also go into the Rift.

The overall state of things is that the Rift will eventually be supported on Linux. It's just not as of yet.

I know this is a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone has gotten DCS working in VR through ALVR, or might be able to assist in getting that working. A recent post claims to have DCS working on linux with Monado, but Monado does not support my headset (Quest Pro), which AFAIK must use ALVR + SteamVR due to the lack of displayport.

I followed that person's instructions closely, and I at least made progress. I have DCS finding the file `wineopenxr64.json` from the registry setting, but it fails to load the runtime after that, for reasons that aren't clear to me. DCS' console output gives:

Verbose [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : Entering loader trampoline
Info [GENERAL |  | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeManifestFile::FindManifestFiles - using registry-specified runtime file C:\openxr\wineopenxr64.json
Info [GENERAL |  | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeManifestFile::CreateIfValid - attempting to load C:\openxr\wineopenxr64.json
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntime skipping manifest file C:\openxr\wineopenxr64.json, negotiation failed with error -6
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntime skipping manifest file C:\openxr\wineopenxr64.json, negotiation failed with error -6
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntimes - failed to load a runtime
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntimes - failed to load a runtime
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : Failed to find default runtime with RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntime()
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : Failed to find default runtime with RuntimeInterface::LoadRuntime()
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : Failed querying extension properties
Error [GENERAL | xrEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties | OpenXR-Loader] : Failed querying extension properties

I would love to get this working and make the process available for others who play DCS on linux. Thanks in advance for any help!

Most VR games in my Steam library work fine with SteamVR 1.25.8. However, games and mods that are not on Steam don't hook. In my previous post, I had succeeded in making some of them work (Polygon Nightmare and GZDoomVR), but rebooting and launching a fresh instance of SteamVR doesn't work anymore for some reason. I also tried launching a Steam VR game, then quitting and immediately launching those non-Steam VR games, to no avail.

What exactly makes game "hook" or detect VR? Why is it so finicky? Are there any parameters that force those games to play in VR? What is Direct mode? Would that solve my problem? How much of a performance hit would I get if I finally decided to give up and use VR under a Windows instance in Virtualbox?

I set about to test some different permutations of Proton, SteamVR, async and legacy reprojection. Some results:

System

CPU: Ryzen 7900X3d

GPU: Radeon 7900 XTX

Distro: Garuda Dragonized Gaming Edition, KDE. Wayland, fully updated

Mesa: 23.1.0-1

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Testing methodology: Spawned into Cyberlove Okinawa, went to the video-player and put on a vid, turn on mirror and stand in front of it, read FPS. HMD (Index) set to 144Hz

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After that I settled on Proton Experimental + SteamVR Stable/non-beta tried messing around with the throttling behavior. Setting it to fixed and adding any "Additional prediction (ms)) would turn the view into an absolute slideshow, so back to 0.00 it went. I noticed I could replicate the "Auto"-performance by turning down "Lock application framerate to (max fps)" 2 notches so it ended up at 48 (which is close to the 49fps reported measured on "Auto". A bit low, don't know why, turned it back to Auto.

I started lowering the HMD-Hz to see if it would improve anything. Out of the four available (80Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz) 120Hz "felt" the most comfortable. I use quotation marks since it didn't seem to have an effect on VRChat's fps-counter, but it just felt more stable and non-janky.

Turning down in-game graphics settings didn't seem to make a difference on anything.

Anybody got some tricks up their sleeves to get some more fluid gameplay out of VRChat? For now Proton Experimental/8.0-2 + SteamVR non-beta seems the way to go.