Steam VR keeps opening whenever I play Roblox

[Bluetooth!Sans]

I have no clue why or what I pressed, but whenever I try to play any game on Roblox, SteamVR opens and tries to detect a VR, it's been happening suddenly today and I don't know how to fix this

[jpdfive]

THERES A FIX!

Go to C:\Users\(User)\AppData\Local\Roblox.

Open GlobalBasicSettings_13.XML.

Press Ctrl + F and search for:
<bool name="HasEverUsedVR">false</bool> (Or a part of it, to get that line)

Change false to true.

Save the file and launch any Roblox game.

Open the ESC menu, and go to the bottom of settings and turn VR Mode to Off (Pending Restart).

Close that game, and next one you open should be fine.

If not i have no clue.

[JCThemeParkLover]

This has been happening on and off, and it recently started up like this again. I don't know how to fix it. The previous time it happened, I waited and it fixed itself. And then, next few days, it detects SteamVR again.

[Spec]

One fix that I have found, is to rename your SteamVR folder (Located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR) to anything OTHER than SteamVR (SteamVR1 for example). Roblox will no longer open VR, BUT if you want to play VR again, you will have to rename SteamVR1 back to SteamVR

[Rusty Toaster]

Originally posted by jpdfive:

THERES A FIX!

Go to C:\Users\(User)\AppData\Local\Roblox.

Open GlobalBasicSettings_13.XML.

Press Ctrl + F and search for:
<bool name="HasEverUsedVR">false</bool> (Or a part of it, to get that line)

Change false to true.

Save the file and launch any Roblox game.

Open the ESC menu, and go to the bottom of settings and turn VR Mode to Off (Pending Restart).

Close that game, and next one you open should be fine.

If not i have no clue.

This only prevents roblox from running in VR. SteamVR will still open and launch with roblox. And if you try to close SteamVR then it also closes roblox, despite roblox not being in VR mode.
1 whole year later from this post being posted and the bug still hasn't been fixed on roblox's side.

[Moss_77]

Still doesn't work, even if you open it in browser vr still opens when you run any game

[gleep]

Hi all - since Roblox doesn't seem to care to fix this problem - I threw together a powershell script that hopefully is somewhat universal or easily editable to work to launch Roblox without messing with any settings, config files, or SteamVR stuff.

The script has a path variable to your SteamVR folder that contains the "vrmonitor.exe" file. The script renames this file to vrmonitor2.exe and then launches roblox and changes the vrmonitor.exe back to the original name after Roblox launches. This allows Roblox to launch without being able to start SteamVR since the file is missing when it tries.

The gripe I had is every time my Roblox app gets updated it changes the FOLDER location of the exe file for Roblox and scripting this was annoying - so this powershell finds the newest .exe file inside the local appdata folder and launches it automatically.

# This script assumes SteamVR is installed in the default location on your C: drive
# and Roblox is installed in the auto-update folder inside your user profile's local appdata folder
# Set your path to the vrmonitor.exe file in the $Steam variable

$Steam = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\bin\win64\"

# Rename the steam VR monitor file so it cannot start when Roblox starts temporarily
Rename-Item "$steam\vrmonitor.exe" vrmonitor2.exe

# Find the latest RobloxPlayerBeta.exe inside the user's local appdata folders and launch the newest EXE
Set-Location $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Roblox
$newestFile = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter "RobloxPlayerBeta.exe" | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1
$newestFilePath = $newestFile.FullName
Start-Process -FilePath $newestFilePath

# Wait a few seconds for Roblox to start and then rename the Steam VR Monitor back to normal
sleep 5
Rename-Item "$Steam\vrmonitor2.exe" vrmonitor.exe

[Pun bro]

Everythings so complicated, guess i never play Roblox again. . .

[kitkatt]

Has no one thought to just unplug your vr while you're not using it to play the game?

[Extoic Butters]

There is a fix when this is happening so you would want to go to to steam apps common if you have steamvr rename it to steamvrabc or steamvr123

[Sucipto]

Originally posted by Kit:

There is a fix when this is happening so you would want to go to to steam apps common if you have steamvr rename it to steamvrabc or steamvr123

that's dumb I want to be able to switch on and off VR mode and not have to rename the file