Flickering when using the SteamVR plugin in Unity

[ThreeJayKay]

I'm getting bad flickering (like a double buffering issue) when playing a scene in Unity. When I build the project and start it, it works fine.

I hope this is the right place for this. I also asked on Unity Answers[answers.unity3d.com] with more details but didn't receive an answer.

[aaron.leiby]

This sounds like what it looks like when you aren't making framerate. Running in the Unity editor is always going to be more expensive than running standalone. Usually the inspector window is the slowest. Setting the game view to maximize when playing often helps, since it hides the other expensive elements of the editor.

[ThreeJayKay]

Actually I figured it out. It happens when there is an additional "game" view open in unity. Oddly enough it happens even if that view isn't attached to a camera!