Vive Pro 2 Room setup Every Time I run SteaVR

[Verdammte]

As the title says, every single time I start SteamVR it makes me re-run the room setup. It's driving me insane. I tried reinstalling, resetting, and various little things like setting certain files to read-only. This all started when I got my Vive Pro 2 HMD. My Vive Pro 1 didn't do any of this.

[Masha]

Same thing happens to me most of the time with my Vive Pro 2. I haven't really tried troubleshooting it yet.

[Slick Twitchy]

Same here

[Ray]

If you have any overlay apps installed, try disabling them all to see if one of those causes it. See SteamVR Settings, page Startup/Shutdown.

[LJE CHAMBELAN]

okay

[Cheezus Crisp]

I may have managed to solve this problem. I have tried 4 times and I have not had the pop-up ever since. If I launch SteamVR normally through the Steam client, the room setup pop-up would appear. I found however that if I launched the Vive Console without SteamVR running and have it start SteamVR itself, I don't get the issue anymore. I would like people to test this out to see if this solution works.

Edit: I've completely solved the room set-up problem with the VP2. As expected the VIVE console was the problem. You need to launch the VIVE console first and let it automatically start SteamVR instead of launching SteamVR from the library.

I'm suspecting this is because SteamVR extracts chaperone data from the VIVE console. The problem is when you launch SteamVR from the library, it only gives a split second for the VIVE console to launch first before SteamVR starts as well. If the VIVE console isn't fully done loading, it's likely that the data isn't loaded in and SteamVR doesn't see it and errors out.

This is likely why people were saying resetting windows fixed it. It's because their VIVE console loads faster on a fresh install but progressively as more files build up people will end up seeing the same problem again. So instead if you launch the console first, it'll fully load up and take a few seconds and only once it's done then it'll start SteamVR.

I've also made a custom launch parameter for SteamVR itself under launch options to instead launch the VIVE console so that you can continue using SteamVR through the Steam library. If you're using the default start menu shortcut, this is what you'll have to paste in.

"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\VIVE Software\VIVE Console.lnk" %command%

[Bob Loblaw]

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

I may have managed to solve this problem. I have tried 4 times and I have not had the pop-up ever since. If I launch SteamVR normally through the Steam client, the room setup pop-up would appear. I found however that if I launched the Vive Console without SteamVR running and have it start SteamVR itself, I don't get the issue anymore. I would like people to test this out to see if this solution works.

I suppose this is working for me as well. I start my VP2 system by turning on the linkbox, which starts Vive Console For SteamVR first, which then starts SteamVR... I don't get room setup appearing.

I'll add I always shut down SteamVR from the SteamVR dashboard in VR, wait for the headset to display vive console's blue starfield and than dark, confirm my controllers go off, I press the linkbox off, and listen for windows to do the USB chime twice about 3 seconds later. If any of that didn't happen, start it up and shut it down right again.

[Cheezus Crisp]

Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

I may have managed to solve this problem. I have tried 4 times and I have not had the pop-up ever since. If I launch SteamVR normally through the Steam client, the room setup pop-up would appear. I found however that if I launched the Vive Console without SteamVR running and have it start SteamVR itself, I don't get the issue anymore. I would like people to test this out to see if this solution works.

I suppose this is working for me as well. I start my VP2 system by turning on the linkbox, which starts Vive Console For SteamVR first, which then starts SteamVR... I don't get room setup appearing.

I'll add I always shut down SteamVR from the SteamVR dashboard in VR, wait for the headset to display vive console's blue starfield and than dark, confirm my controllers go off, I press the linkbox off, and listen for windows to do the USB chime twice about 3 seconds later. If any of that didn't happen, start it up and shut it down right again.

I completely forgot this was a feature. I disabled it because awhile back during the first few weeks of owning the headset I would keep the link box running but I found out it was generating significant heat so I would turn it off when I'm done using VR. The issue with it was that it was booting Vive Console on every boot up of my PC because it detects the USB connection and launches the console.

[Jdbye]

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

I may have managed to solve this problem. I have tried 4 times and I have not had the pop-up ever since. If I launch SteamVR normally through the Steam client, the room setup pop-up would appear. I found however that if I launched the Vive Console without SteamVR running and have it start SteamVR itself, I don't get the issue anymore. I would like people to test this out to see if this solution works.

I think this workaround actually worked for me. Usually it will ask to do room setup 99% of the time, but I've restarted SteamVR about 6-7 times by launching Vive Console every time instead of SteamVR directly, and it's been reliable. Thank you so much. Gave you a big award as thanks.
It's not a fix, but it's better than nothing until HTC fix their damn software.

[Cheezus Crisp]

Originally posted by Jdbye:

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

I may have managed to solve this problem. I have tried 4 times and I have not had the pop-up ever since. If I launch SteamVR normally through the Steam client, the room setup pop-up would appear. I found however that if I launched the Vive Console without SteamVR running and have it start SteamVR itself, I don't get the issue anymore. I would like people to test this out to see if this solution works.

I think this workaround actually worked for me. Usually it will ask to do room setup 99% of the time, but I've restarted SteamVR about 6-7 times by launching Vive Console every time instead of SteamVR directly, and it's been reliable. Thank you so much. Gave you a big award as thanks.
It's not a fix, but it's better than nothing until HTC fix their damn software.

I forgot to add that I did write a slightly more comprehensive solution that makes it behave as if you were still running natively through steamVR. I've edited my post and updated the solution.

[🙈🧬👨‍💻🥽Jerry ✡️ VRcia⛐🏁✈️🏓]

cheezus, you are absolute legend. big UPS to you mate. your posts are always SPOT on! this works 100% for me as well!

i originally went straight into wireless with my VP2 and didn't have the room set up issue. i could throw my headset on and go. when i started playing with wired for more demanding games, i would have this issue every single time, but once in a while it would work. blah blah, some type of race condition, one more broken thing, but this one really killed my enjoyment.

something to note: when i would look around with the headset to try and force it to recognize my room, the times it would work it would screw up the room centering. this method of ensuring vive console can load first keeps my room nice and tidy.

[Pickle Poody]

Thank you!

[Immortalyogi]

Yeah I am having the same issue. It is driving me crazy also. Opening the vive consule first is not working.