"vrserver.exe has stopped working"

[krashd]

Hi, I don't have any VR equipment, nor have I opted in to anything VR-related but every day at least once or twice I get an error pop up on my windows desktop telling me vrserver.exe has stopped working.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I just tracked it to Steam and thought I should report it.

I have Windows 8.1 x64, it was a Windows 8 clean install that updated to 8.1 when it was released. I have had Steam installed for the better part of a year and it is always updated to the latest. I haven't opted in to any Steam betas, I haven't used or loaded anything to do with Oculus or VR, I don't use Big Picture (sp?) but I have ran it once or twice in the past.

If this is a known thing then disregard this thread, as I said it doesn't bother me at all, but if I can help iron out any bugs I'm glad to help.

If any 'techheads' require a crash dump or hardware report just tell me what to do and where to send it :)


krashd

[Andrew]

Sort of the same thing. Noticed it after the yesterday's Steam Client update. I don't have any VR stuff, but this process vrserver.exe just sits in there (no crashing) http://i.imgur.com/1P4oaxC.png

Sometimes it takes up to 50% of the CPU.
Win7 64-bit

[Rosher18]

I just noticed the same thing as the previous two.
Win 8.1 64-bit, haven't opted into a Steam Beta or any VR.

[SkeletonChrist]

you may not care, but it bothers me a great deal. and the steam process some times uses 50% cpu. in idle. I am about to uninstall.

[Ax3]

Whenever I connect my USB mouse, vrserver.exe crashes. I don't have any VR equipment.

[krashd]

I've noticed the cause of my crashes is plugging my phone in to USB.

[CoatOfArms]

Okay this sucks because at least 40 times a day this happens and it bugs the crap outta me. Anyone know how to fix this? I'd greatly appreciate it.

[krashd]

Excellent. Problem solved, we'll just use windows without mice.

[MasterUltraBall]

Same here. I never really understood why that shows up, but thanks for the notice.

[Eldirish]

I get this error when i plug in my headphones but i fix it by going to the control panel and changing the settings of the audio devices.

[Dankk]

I just got this error for the first time a few minutes ago. If anyone can conclusively figure out what this is (and how to fix it), it would be much appreciated.

[➳TSH➳ Saer]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από krashd:

Hi, I don't have any VR equipment, nor have I opted in to anything VR-related but every day at least once or twice I get an error pop up on my windows desktop telling me vrserver.exe has stopped working.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I just tracked it to Steam and thought I should report it.

I have Windows 8.1 x64, it was a Windows 8 clean install that updated to 8.1 when it was released. I have had Steam installed for the better part of a year and it is always updated to the latest. I haven't opted in to any Steam betas, I haven't used or loaded anything to do with Oculus or VR, I don't use Big Picture (sp?) but I have ran it once or twice in the past.

If this is a known thing then disregard this thread, as I said it doesn't bother me at all, but if I can help iron out any bugs I'm glad to help.

If any 'techheads' require a crash dump or hardware report just tell me what to do and where to send it :)
krashd

Yep. Same problems here. It's kinda pissing me off coz it switches screens from dota or tf2, and I usually die when it does.

[➳TSH➳ Saer]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από jonnywoh:

I too have this problem on Windows 7 64-bit. I've had a look at it in Process Explorer and I've noticed that the vrserver process is constantly being restarted, as is a conhost process. On my computer, conhost is the one with high CPU usage rather than vrserver. I can't confirm the USB mouse issue at the moment, but the process restarts have stopped since I unplugged my mouse this morning.

Opposite of mine. When my mouse is out, I keep getting these messages, no matter if it's in or out. And I've tried with bost my USB and my wireless. No differece.

[isotroproprilik]

I've got the exact same problem and I haven't found a way to solve this yet. This is the most annoying thing ever as sometimes I'm a day without going on my computer to find 3 dozen notifications saying vrserver.exe has stopped working.

Please steam devs, FIX THIS ASAP!!!

[isotroproprilik]

Alright, so I'm going to try something and see if it works, I renamed vrserver.exe to vrserver.exe.bak and I'll see if it fixes it, screws steam up, all of the above or nothing happens... Will report back with results :)

[krashd]

It won't hurt Steam, I haven't explored whether it is a service or a process yet but there are ways to simply stop both at bootup. I've left mine running because as I said it doesn't bother me and if it's compiling reports or steamdumps that VR devs can use then I'm fine with it.

I understand though that it's likely a bigger problem for other users, for me it only crashes once or twice a day and I just close it.

I've done software testing in the past so I'm happy to ignore it if it's helping iron ♥♥♥♥ out.