Steam VR Won't Launch

[Average Perfect Fried Enjoyer]

Everytime I launch steamvr it says running for 2 seconds then stops, I've tried reinstalling. restarting my pc, restarting steam and changing them all to administrator. I've tried verifying the files. nothing I've tried is working, Please help.

[Bob Loblaw]

Which headset do you have?

Prior fixes for SteamVR/VR games won't start in the VR forums:
1) Update GPU driver
2) Reinstall Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013 64 bit.
3) You must have SteamVR installed. Try different versions of SteamVR by either switching to the stable branch or to the beta branch. If you are an oculus user, you still must have SteamVR for most steam games.
4) If you are using a laptop, see if your laptop has an option to disable the integrated GPU, either via the laptop manufacturer’s control software or in the BIOS. If no such option exists, try forcing both HL2VR and SteamVR to use the dedicated GPU. If you need instructions, see here
5) If you are using a laptop with an AMD Ryzen processor, a very particular fix that has helped a number of people is to go to the Device Manager, then disable and re-enable the integrated Radeon graphics.
6) Reinstall steam. ( https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/0/3601219829870413249/ )
7) uninstall the Citrix remote desktop display adapter in device manager ( https://steamcommunity.com/app/698260/discussions/2/3598968030048391526/ )
8) unplug HMD, uninstall USB devices (also for steamvr starts but stuck in floor) ( https://steamcommunity.com/app/1704080/discussions/0/3758852249519942171/ )

[Average Perfect Fried Enjoyer]

I'm getting "VRiniterror_IPC_Namespaceunavailable: Shared IPC Namespace Unavailable (310)" if that helps. I got it so I can launch steamvr without steam but It doesn't detect my games and starts bugging out when I Launch vr games

[Average Perfect Fried Enjoyer]

Got it to work, It was my hardrive, it was corrupted so I had to reinstall steam on a different drive. pain but as long as it works i'm good

[Lhorke]

Originally posted by Average Perfect Fried Enjoyer:

Got it to work, It was my hardrive, it was corrupted so I had to reinstall steam on a different drive. pain but as long as it works i'm good

HOLY SH*T after a WEEK of troubleshooting THIS WAS THE FIX.
PC was detecting the headset but steamvr just WOULDNT start, it would begin to launch then just stop working with no errors or nothing. changing steam install directory to my 2nd drive, then reinstalling steamVR on that drive WORKED!

THANK YOU Average Perfect Fried Enjoyer!