Game not opening with my oculus quest 2

[Deta]

I am using the oculus quest 2 air link and the game opens on my desktop but refuses to open in the actual headset. Anyone have the same issues or a way to fix it?

[Fafnir]

yes i have the same problem when using airlink.. the thing that solved it is that i open SteamVR first then in steamvr i open legendary tales, that solved it for me

[Miciso]

one thing that works for me is just reboot my pc. and have the headset on.
put on airlink or wired. then boot up the game. make sure u got steamVR installed.

[Donoghu]

A couple of possible things for anyone with a problem where a game is not opening with Air Link are:

- Hard reset the Oculus software on the PC.
To do this, you need to close the Oculus software on the PC and open the Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and "End Task" (a.k.a. kill) the 3 following process :
"OVR Service Launcher" and "OVRServer_x64.exe" and "OVR Redir"
(OVR Service Launcher should be ended first because it will keep reopening the 2 others.)
Those background "tasks" are live at all time after you open the Oculus Software once and doesn't end once you close it. The OVRServer_x64 is the one that store the communication data between your PC and the Headset while Service Launcher is the one who communicate with SteamVR when you launch it.

Once all of those are "closed", opening anew the Oculus software should open a loading bar that display something like "Checking your Oculus status" for a short moment. (This means that you have properly hard reset the software.)

- Opening the SteamVR software/app in Steam prior to starting the VR game.
By doing so, you ensure that Steam VR is properly started (which is a requirement for VR game on Steam) prior to asking the Oculus software to communicate with it. Sometimes, what's happening is that SteamVR kinda crashes and that automatically close the VR app before it even starts. This looks, to you with the headset, as if the game doesn't open.

Simplest way of achieving this is to open SteamVR directly from the Oculus app (the menu you see once you enter Air Link mode.) If you previously started SteamVR, it should appears in the app list of that menu. (This is a part of reason for the "OVR Redir" task I previously mentioned. That Task logs access references to any games/app you started on your PC with Oculus.)

- If those 2 methods fails, a PC soft reset ("Restart") could be a possible fix.
There's a possibility that you could have gotten an update without knowing it like a NVidia or Windows update. Those updates, sometimes (though rare), can render some stuff unusable until the PC is restarted.

[Miciso]

also another one i tried and works when games fail to boot.
i run steam vr tutorial. hit my left menu button library. then choose legendary tales.

[drizzt9078]

Let me try to describe what happens when I load my game up at the main menu over the campfire where says create a character tutorial etc I see all that for a split second and then it all disappears and all it has in its place is quit game there is no other choice to make is there a way to fix that

[Deta]

Originally posted by drizzt9078:

Let me try to describe what happens when I load my game up at the main menu over the campfire where says create a character tutorial etc I see all that for a split second and then it all disappears and all it has in its place is quit game there is no other choice to make is there a way to fix that

The only solution i've found to this is to reset everything, the oculus app, steam vr, and your oculus and hope it works. Maybe resetting your pc would be better.

[Lokka]

Originally posted by Deta:

I am using the oculus quest 2 air link and the game opens on my desktop but refuses to open in the actual headset. Anyone have the same issues or a way to fix it?

having this exact issue right now and nothing is fixing it

[Deta]

Originally posted by Lokka:

Originally posted by Deta:

I am using the oculus quest 2 air link and the game opens on my desktop but refuses to open in the actual headset. Anyone have the same issues or a way to fix it?

having this exact issue right now and nothing is fixing it

The only thing I could do to fix it was close the game, turn off the headset, close steam VR, and close the oculus app, then open everything again. And that only works sometimes.

[Aether_Fox]

Originally posted by Lokka:

Originally posted by Deta:

I am using the oculus quest 2 air link and the game opens on my desktop but refuses to open in the actual headset. Anyone have the same issues or a way to fix it?

having this exact issue right now and nothing is fixing it

I would recommend getting Virtual Desktop over using Air Link. When i first bought my Quest I used air link and hated it so I bought Virtual Desktop and haven't had a single problem with any game since. I purchased mine straight from the Quest store not Steam though.

[PaoloLast]

Originally posted by Aether_Fox:

Originally posted by Lokka:

having this exact issue right now and nothing is fixing it

I would recommend getting Virtual Desktop over using Air Link. When i first bought my Quest I used air link and hated it so I bought Virtual Desktop and haven't had a single problem with any game since. I purchased mine straight from the Quest store not Steam though.

I'm having the same issue with virtual desktop, i launch the game, it starts (i can hear the music and the fire cracking) but it remeins on "next up" and if i watch my desktop there's the game with graphic issues on the flat screen.

EDIT: Uninstaled ad reinstalled SteamVR, that did it for me.