VRchat causes PC to crash when starting the game up

[Axemun]

Title says it all. I've reinstalled the game, oculus software, verified file integrity, reset my default avatar, tried the steam version, tried the oculus version, tried desktop mode, tried VR mode and almost everything else in-between. Sometimes it's an instant crash sometimes i can see a loading screen and the game itself just crashes. This seems to be a recent thing as the as the game was fine about a month ago when i last launched it and it only seems to be VRchat as all my other VR games start fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I got it working. So my ancient ass motherboard had an update for the bios which was a surprise. I updated the bios but I also had to go into Easy Anti-Cheat's install location (C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat) and delete the .sys file. After doing all this VRchat now works perfectly. If you've found this solution from a Google search then I hope this helps.

[Gemini Kirin]

Unfortunately I don't have any idea as to what's going on, as I've been getting the same issue. I got a new PC recently with AMD Radeon Adrenalin as well as a vid card among other things, and while I'm not sure if that's part of the issue, it only started doing it after that. Never had issues with my older comp.

[bluewolf3627]

Im having the Same Thing Happening on My End as well iv'e even Restarted my Pc and it still messes up i managed to join One world out of almost 12 Attempts and i Crashed not even 10 Seconds Onto Joining

[dull]

I had a similar issue a few months ago when I reinstalled windows and installing the latest drivers through geforce fixed it for me. If not that, check if controlled folder access is enabled and if it's messing with it somehow. The only other thing I could think of would be manually clearing your vrchat cache under %appdata% in case it wasn't for some reason.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Axemun:

Title says it all. I've reinstalled the game, oculus software, verified file integrity, reset my default avatar, tried the steam version, tried the oculus version, tried desktop mode, tried VR mode and almost everything else in-between. Sometimes it's an instant crash sometimes i can see a loading screen and the game itself just crashes. This seems to be a recent thing as the as the game was fine about a month ago when i last launched it and it only seems to be VRchat as all my other VR games start fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

de-OC your CPU.

[Axemun]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Originally posted by Axemun:

Title says it all. I've reinstalled the game, oculus software, verified file integrity, reset my default avatar, tried the steam version, tried the oculus version, tried desktop mode, tried VR mode and almost everything else in-between. Sometimes it's an instant crash sometimes i can see a loading screen and the game itself just crashes. This seems to be a recent thing as the as the game was fine about a month ago when i last launched it and it only seems to be VRchat as all my other VR games start fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

de-OC your CPU.

Turns out my bios did decide to turn on some OC features for what ever reason. Disabling them did get it to work in desktop mode at least. I'll just have to live with a 50% fix for now. Thanks for your help though.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Axemun:

Originally posted by SiEgE:

de-OC your CPU.

Turns out my bios did decide to turn on some OC features for what ever reason. Disabling them did get it to work in desktop mode at least. I'll just have to live with a 50% fix for now. Thanks for your help though.

I've recently had a similar issue :)
Some games were going nuts on my PC, crashing from time to time. There were BSODs, but they were so rare and app specific(and that app was known to cause BSODs because of its anticheat system) I didn't even catch the "wind" of possible issue with an OC. Also, those were very moddable and not very stable(by their general description and known bugs) games, so I didn't mind them doing so. At some point, the crashes became unbearable and I've started digging around.
I've figured out that 99.99% crashes were happening during heavy CPU load, and the crash logs, after some clearing, were reporting "absolutely random" issues that had no real reason to happen, had no description on the net, or were described as being caused by RAM/CPU OC.
I've rolled back the OC I've done long time ago, and now all the issues are gone for good.

[SiEgE]

Also, keep in mind that CPU's chips tend to degrade over time. It is mostly a fairly slow progress, so you won't really catch it unless the CPU is way too old. But sometimes, it is "just enough" to ruin your perfect OC and start seeing sudden BSODs and instabilities. Maybe all it takes for you is to just notch it down a bit.

[☣️Red]

Ok, to all that's having issues with vrc after upgrading your pc, you're not alone. I too have an issue. I have an extremely high end pc now compared to before and I have issues. My issue is just on desktop, I haven't even tried PCVR yet, but what I've noticed is that when vrc is running now, for some reason the power usage on my pc is "very high". I can play on the max quality settings and I get over a 100 frames, but I noticed last night that I would randomly get frame drops & video stuttering/desync. This was never an issue for my older specs. Now I have newer & much better specs and I have these issues. I'm beginning to think that it's on their end and not mine. So I have noticed that if you have higher end specs, you're going to run into issues although it makes 0 sense because higher end specs = better performance/smoother.

[bluewolf3627]

Idk what i did but i Fixed it try Restarting your Pc and Vr headset if your have one and make sure your have 1GB of Storage cuz its working fine for me Now cuz i went on started Quest and it worked fine but Pc it didn't but now it Does VRChat are you sure you can do Updates with no issues for once my guy ya know like testing it out on all platforms multi times before launch

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Red Death:

Ok, to all that's having issues with vrc after upgrading your pc, you're not alone. I too have an issue. I have an extremely high end pc now compared to before and I have issues. My issue is just on desktop, I haven't even tried PCVR yet, but what I've noticed is that when vrc is running now, for some reason the power usage on my pc is "very high". I can play on the max quality settings and I get over a 100 frames, but I noticed last night that I would randomly get frame drops & video stuttering/desync. This was never an issue for my older specs. Now I have newer & much better specs and I have these issues. I'm beginning to think that it's on their end and not mine. So I have noticed that if you have higher end specs, you're going to run into issues although it makes 0 sense because higher end specs = better performance/smoother.

It is not as simple as "just plug it in a piece that costs more to get more fps". It can work, but there are always details ;)

Even though they've "dumbified" the PC build and service process down to a kid's puzzle(slot in what is slottable, install OS, drivers and there you are), it still has many aspects and quirks like in the good ol' days.

[Banan]

:yay:

[Axemun]

Originally posted by Red Death:

Ok, to all that's having issues with vrc after upgrading your pc, you're not alone. I too have an issue. I have an extremely high end pc now compared to before and I have issues. My issue is just on desktop, I haven't even tried PCVR yet, but what I've noticed is that when vrc is running now, for some reason the power usage on my pc is "very high". I can play on the max quality settings and I get over a 100 frames, but I noticed last night that I would randomly get frame drops & video stuttering/desync. This was never an issue for my older specs. Now I have newer & much better specs and I have these issues. I'm beginning to think that it's on their end and not mine. So I have noticed that if you have higher end specs, you're going to run into issues although it makes 0 sense because higher end specs = better performance/smoother.

I was able to fully fix my issue, take a look at my edit to the main post. was a it ♥♥♥♥♥? yes am i happy now? yes.