VR view goes black when loading into scenes/maps

[placid warren]

I started playing the ghost town update today and I'm having a bug where my VR view starts completely black after the game loads into a new scene/map. (Though desktop view seems unaffected?)

The issue does seem to go away after waiting a couple minutes. It feels like the game maybe loaded too fast, and while in-game it's trying to load more things before it gives me the VR view back.

I stopped using SteamVR and I am now just using the Meta Quest Link with my Quest 3 to play the game, not sure if this is contributing to the issue, but I thought I'd mention it incase it helps.

[paper forum]

It’s compiling shaders

It usually only takes a while once for a map and then it’s good

I think they patched this today

[heady pulsar]

Not a bug, this is the game compiling the shaders & loading the map. Takes a couple minutes the first time entering a map, and will get faster each time. I highly recommend (if not already done) to put the game on an SSD or an NVMe preferably. This will make the process go much faster.