Game won't open steam VR

[Saveforth]

The game doesn't open steam VR when I run it, and when I start steam vr myself and then start vail, it doesn't open in VR. It just opens on my monitor. steam does say "starting vail" as per usual in my headset, but it's already open on my monitor and never opens in my headset.

[Jonas]

same issue, running on pico 4
bought a few days ago

[JoshBologna]

Headset specs?

[aoud]

Originally posted by Saveforth:

The game doesn't open steam VR when I run it, and when I start steam vr myself and then start vail, it doesn't open in VR. It just opens on my monitor. steam does say "starting vail" as per usual in my headset, but it's already open on my monitor and never opens in my headset.

Hey, did you get it working ok?

[pee dingle]

Same issue lmao with Vail and Pavlov both dont work could you help???

[CrazyIvan1745]

Make sure you are not running OVR Toolkit.
That is the most common thing to cause that.

OVR Toolkit is an OpenVR only software, and UnrealEngine5 (Which we and Pav are both using) moved to the standardization of using OpenXR instead of OpenVR.

If that doesn't work please let me know though, and I can run through a few other possible solutions.

[Saveforth]

Oh hey, I didn't get any of the notifications for this thread. My bad, I did get it to work, I don't remember how.

[Saveforth]

Great game btw devs, best bow mechanic in any vr game in my opinion.

[CrazyIvan1745]

Originally posted by Saveforth:

Great game btw devs, best bow mechanic in any vr game in my opinion.

All good, Thank you!
Glad you got it working!

[aoud]

Originally posted by Saveforth:

Oh hey, I didn't get any of the notifications for this thread. My bad, I did get it to work, I don't remember how.

Originally posted by Saveforth:

Great game btw devs, best bow mechanic in any vr game in my opinion.

Also happy you got it to work and enjoy the bow!!!

Happy Holidays!

[vhornik]

Ive got the exact same error. My game wont open in VR.

[xXCatalystXx]

im having the exact same issue and i cant figure out how to make it work

[vhornik]

I got the fix. Run SteamVR then go to OpenXR after click on the button that says something with SteamVR sorry i dont remember it after click Ok/Yes and ur set. Also it works for games Phasmophobia etc. (Sorry if u dont understand what i said but i hope i helped a bit)

[CrazyIvan1745]

Yes, so if you are running a headset that has it's own version of OpenXR, you will need to swap to that version.

SteamVR had an update that will ask if you want to use their version of OpenXR which will fix it in some scenarios.
One of those being is you previously used an Oculus headset and are moving to a Steam based one later on. It will swap it from Oculus OpenXR to Steam OpenXR. There are a few other ways that can happen, but that is often one of the more common.

If this prompt does not come up on SteamVR. Go to the menu in the top left of the SteamVR window go to Settings>OpenXR and click "Set SteamVR as OpenXR Runtime"

If you are using Oculus, in the Oculus Software, make sure you are using their OpenXR under Settings>General>OpenXRRuntime Set Oculus as active.
Note: If you are using Virtual Desktop, it will automatically change it to their version of OpenXR instead. So if you use Virtual Desktop, then swap back to Airlink, you may need to recheck your Oculus settings.

I have not looked into the new Steam Link for Oculus, but I suspect you will have to tell steam to use SteamVR OpenXR runtime for it to function, and that might be the issue that some users are reporting with it. I would love to know if anyone is having issues with Steam Link, and if that fixes the issue.

If anyone has any other issues with specific headsets and OpenXR, let me know in this thread.