SteamVR wont open

[Spannerback]

Try to open steam VR and nothing happens, it just flashes for a sec like its about to open then dissapears then nothing....headset doesnt power on
Reinstalled SteamVR...nothing
Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable ...nothing
Run steam as admin...nothing
disabled anti virus...nothing
Latest updated GPU driver.....nothing
All worked fine and now its not, no hardware changes

i can open a VR game by mouse clicking it from my steam library and steam Vr opens and headset turns on but if im in game and try to go to steamVR home it wont work

Also seen an error 102 lib not found

maybe have to wait for a steamvr update?

[Creepers Jeeper]

i got the same problem, but as i start steam as administrator than steamvr starts normal and works without problems.

[JP Saak]

Originally posted by texelot:

I suggested deleting C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath.

That solved the problem for me - SteamVR starts again!

[SunRedd]

Originally posted by texelot:

Originally posted by onsidesuperior3:

I was able to manually launch SteamVR by going to the SteamVR folder on my D: drive and then running vrmonitor as administrator. However, an error then comes up: SteamVR failed to init. for unknown reasons. (Error: Log path could not be located (112)). I will try to reinstall as texelot suggests to see if the log files get put in the correct place.

I didn't suggest re-installing, I suggested deleting C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath. Or at least open that up to inspect if the paths are wrong. Clarified my post.

Oh my god man, you are my savior. This works!, valve support couldn't even help me. Kept on saying I had to do their ♥♥♥♥ steps and nothing worked. Thanks man!

[123stur]

Originally posted by texelot:

Originally posted by onsidesuperior3:

I was able to manually launch SteamVR by going to the SteamVR folder on my D: drive and then running vrmonitor as administrator. However, an error then comes up: SteamVR failed to init. for unknown reasons. (Error: Log path could not be located (112)). I will try to reinstall as texelot suggests to see if the log files get put in the correct place.

I didn't suggest re-installing, I suggested deleting C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath. Or at least open that up to inspect if the paths are wrong. Clarified my post.

Originally posted by onsidesuperior3:

Thanks that fixed it for me. I opened the openvrpaths file with NotePad and changed the C: drive locations for the config, log and runtime to the the D: drive as seen below. It appears to now be working properly.

"config" : [ "D:\\Steam\\config" ],
"log" : [ "D:\\Steam\\logs" ],
"runtime" : [ "D:\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\SteamVR\\"]

Ichecked the same file and everything was set to C:\\... but i had installed steam and all of it stuff to D:\....
after i had changed it to D:\\... and saved it! i could start the lab with out problems!

[-ßЯҢ- Stinky Pete [SG]]

Originally posted by texelot:

This may or may not be related to others' issues, but the timing at least lined up for me. Some time ago (a few months) I moved my Steam installation. Everything seemed to work; I could have sworn I was using SteamVR then too. But as of a few weeks ago I couldn't get it to launch -- no errors or anything, it just didn't open.

I eventually found config/log paths in %localappdata%\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath. These were pointing to Steam's default installation directory. Re-installing SteamVR doesn't fix this. I deleted the file it and it was regenerated the next time I ran SteamVR with correct directory paths.

@aaron.leiby, could we get some (rather loud) messaging on startup if these paths are invalid? Especially if the logs directory can't be written to... well, you won't get any useful diagnostics that way. :)

This did it for me, thank you!!!!

[VR-SnowCrash]

Thank you texelot! Good troubleshooting :) I just spent 2 days getting a PCIe M.2 NVMe to boot my computer. I ended up having to take a risk and flash a BIOS update that was written by the mighty Lost_N_BIOS and I'm now booting off M.2 3d NAND NVMe. When I reinstalled everything today I couldn't get into my Steam VR games if they weren't listed in the Oculus Library. Your path observation probably just saved me 2 or more hours. Many Thanks!

[Lomeitlo]

Originally posted by texelot:

Originally posted by onsidesuperior3:

I was able to manually launch SteamVR by going to the SteamVR folder on my D: drive and then running vrmonitor as administrator. However, an error then comes up: SteamVR failed to init. for unknown reasons. (Error: Log path could not be located (112)). I will try to reinstall as texelot suggests to see if the log files get put in the correct place.

I didn't suggest re-installing, I suggested deleting C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath. Or at least open that up to inspect if the paths are wrong. Clarified my post.

omg thx this worked for me.

[Sr.Vac]

AJAM