Game doesn't display in VR | ALVR | Page 1

haughty grove Jan 15, 2025, 1:13 AM

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EndeavorOS
PhoneVR
ALVR 20.8.1 Streamer tar,gz (It wouldn't start the VR when I installed 20.8.1 through there)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GTX 1050
PC

VR doesn't show the game but the desktop window of the game does. Steams dashboard appears correctly tho.

dull meadowBOT Jan 15, 2025, 1:19 AM

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haughty grove Jan 15, 2025, 1:42 PM

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its not a blsck screen

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its a black area

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there are the lines and arrows that appear on the default view when nothing is running

for hl2:vr that doesnt even happen, its just on default view

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i can toggle steamdashboard and it shows me am supposed to be in elite and the UI all works nicely

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and I already did the vrmonitor thing

haughty grove Jan 15, 2025, 5:23 PM

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wait where

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i had that turned on back in mint and hl2 displayed

i went off mint cause of perf issues

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like the in vr one?

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ill check tmr, its real late to be getting logs now

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from my memory there were no errors of any kind

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as in no red lines

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wait statistics?

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not logs?

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okay

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thanks

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ill do it tmr, sleep calls

haughty grove Jan 16, 2025, 10:31 AM

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here ya go

📎 alvrlogs.txt

haughty grove Jan 19, 2025, 10:51 AM

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see the game working fine in the background

then see the VR View not showing the game

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it literally doesnt display in vr

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only on desktop

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and i dont understand why

haughty grove Jan 19, 2025, 3:48 PM

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/home/tom/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command%

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haughty grove Jan 20, 2025, 12:42 PM

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i dont know, i dont know

hollow sigil Jan 20, 2025, 4:25 PM

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what game is failing to work?

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you should know that some/many games just do not work on linux - for me anyway

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if the steam vr dashboard is showing then that means VR is working pretty much - stuffl like beat saber shoulld work fine

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but many of my titles have proton issues and do not work

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in particular i have one game that loads up ok in vr, but when i hit new game it switches to flatscreen only (carrier command 2)

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ah its elite dangerous? that does work but is fussy

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the horizons expansion does not work in vr - there is no first person

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it does the "theater mode" in vr which is crap

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maybe thats the problem you are reporting

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you can fly spaceships in vr but not first person

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on windows....

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 11:42 AM

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hollow sigil what game is failing to work?

elite: dangerous
hl2 vr

thats about all i tested

also steam home but is that even a game

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 11:42 AM

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beat saber is the boring test case we often use

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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hollow sigil you can fly spaceships in vr but not first person

as you can see in the picture, the menu isnt even showing up

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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elite dangerous is not a good test case

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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hollow sigil beat saber is the boring test case we often use

i do not own that

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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it has a weird launcher and weird vr compatibility for dlc

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try some of the free steamvr games

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like "the lab"

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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i dont use the official launcher

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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hollow sigil try some of the free steamvr games

does steam home count

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 11:54 AM

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almost yeah - thats usually a sign its working

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but as said above - some games have problems

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 12:47 PM

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hollow sigil almost yeah - thats usually a sign its working

well it doesnt

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 12:47 PM

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hollow sigil like "the lab"

it wont run under proton

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weird part is i got it to at least display on mint, but the performance was poo poo

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i wonder how much of this is caused by nvidias shitty drivers

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i tried a game called resonite and instead wayland compositor died

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what nvidia gpu driver version do you perhaos have

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 1:39 PM

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i use nvidia and it works fine

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if it doesnt they you are probably not using the nvidia at all

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 2:04 PM

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i was fucking around with ntfs mounting stuff and somehow it works now

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i just moved my steam compat folder

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interesting

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minedlauncher wont accept my custom steam compat folder for some reason tho

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their loss

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 2:24 PM

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aand now its back to being broken

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 3:02 PM

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omg

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after all that it was ntfs?

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damnit i never even check that

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dont use ntfs for your games lol - nothing to do with vr

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stop using ntfs and all of your strange problems will go away

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all you need to do is install the game using steam on linux

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and not try to run your windows games partition - this is not supported

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the various guides showing how to do this online are garbage - it only causes problems

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:28 PM

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hollow sigil stop using ntfs and all of your strange problems will go away

i wanted to use the same drive for binbows and linux games :<

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perhaps i should use that btrfs driver for windows

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is converting a bad idea (i think it is)

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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this is an even worse idea

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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i mean, i have a backup on another drive

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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if it makes you feel better - everyone tries to do this when they first switch to linux, and it never ends well

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:31 PM

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hollow sigil if it makes you feel better - everyone tries to do this when they first switch t...

why is it an option

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:32 PM

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steam does not have a check for this, it assumes you are using a linux filesystem

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ntfs is not fully compatible with linux - just being able to read some files doesnt mean it works for all purposes

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in particular trying to symlink back and forth to ntfs does not work

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the fix for this would be for steam to detect the type of filesytem and popup a big box saying "NOPE"

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:33 PM

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thing is, everything just worked™️ on mint..somehow

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it was horrible

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:33 PM

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it didnt - the problems are pernicious

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:33 PM

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fair

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:34 PM

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what happens if u try a native linux game? or try to switch proton stuff?

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there are lots of nuances going on in steam - you can guess symlinks get used a lot

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if you just run steam on ext4 or btrfs it just works and there are no stupid problems

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:34 PM

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oh. time to move elite to my boot drive tommorrow and hope the funny problems disappear then

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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yeah you can just copy the stuff over - you dont need to download everything again

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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its a bit late now

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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hollow sigil yeah you can just copy the stuff over - you dont need to download everything aga...

yeah i know steam has a move thing

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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NO

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looool

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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its jist my pc is off now and its 2am

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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what did we just discuss?

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none of these features will work properly

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you must do this manually

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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hollow sigil looool

do you want me to use mv or dolphin

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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from the terminal, using the mv command

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:35 PM

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okay

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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do not trust anything else

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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will take note of and report back tommorrow

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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first create the new steam library, then move the stuff into it manually

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let steam create the new library as normal

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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haughty grove perhaps i should use that btrfs driver for windows

also which one is the bad idea? btrfs on windows or conversion

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:36 PM

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use cp command instead of mv

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to make sure it works

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using ntfs on linux is just as crazy as using btrfs on windows

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if you like having problems and iceskating uphill then sure go for it

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:37 PM

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ok fair enough

what about ext4

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:37 PM

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how about using a windows filesystem with windows?

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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ok fine ill use it as intended and stop trying to avoid moving a buncha my files around to repartition

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:v

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tommorrow ill test moving it to my bootdrive though

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its big enough

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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everyone tries this, everyone ragequits

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:38 PM

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hollow sigil everyone tries this, everyone ragequits

using my bootdrive?

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;-;

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:39 PM

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or worse people think its normal to be repairing their filesystem every day

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or have steam mysteriously downloading stuff all the time

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:39 PM

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i mean..thats normal on windows tbf

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:40 PM

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there are normal downloads, and then there is the not normal

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like when your symlinks are broken so steam keeps downloading unnecessarily

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:41 PM

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yeeah i had a problem where steam would refuse to let me shut down the pc because i didnt do my ntfs thjngs in fstab properly

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:41 PM

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steam does have the shader cache thing which is annoying - thats videos it downloads

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you can turn that off and use proton-ge - the problem is legal bullshit for video codecs

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:41 PM

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question

is using ntfs as readonly fine

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:42 PM

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its a symptom that there are problems

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:42 PM

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okay i will stop using ntfs as read only

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:42 PM

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hollow sigil you can turn that off and use proton-ge - the problem is legal bullshit for vide...

is proton ge better or something

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:42 PM

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in some ways yes, in other ways no

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the whole proton thing is stupidly fragmented mostly coz of legal bullshit

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proton experimental has dualsense haptics

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proton-ge doesnt

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proton-ge has hdr patches and video codecs, proton experimental doesnt

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so i have to compile my own proton to have everything - which is tedious

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:43 PM

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hollow sigil steam does have the shader cache thing which is annoying - thats videos it downl...

videos? of what?

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:43 PM

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videos played in games - like intro screens and stuff like that

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its a really tedious topic lol

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so its not actually "shader cache" at all

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despite being called that

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:44 PM

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what a lie!! (why does it not use internet tho?)

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:44 PM

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when you play a game on linux - if the video doesnt play and you instead see some "video test card" screen - this is what i mean

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see that happen with proton experimental

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:45 PM

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havent seen it before

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interesting

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:45 PM

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companies like steam have to pay royalty fees for video codecs, because they distribute to millions of customers it would cost them a lot

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but the proton-ge is just some guy in europe so he cant get hit for royalties

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coz its opensource we just download it so lol

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technically we are all pirates - but its impossible not to be

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the laws for this are insane

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:46 PM

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hollow sigil but the proton-ge is just some guy in europe so he cant get hit for royalties

I would've thought putting it on github counted as "distribution"

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:46 PM

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this is legal bullshit we are talking about 🙂

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it might be ok in one country but not another

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this is a problem for Valve

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but not for us

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:47 PM

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because suing individuals is a waste of money

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:47 PM

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exactly

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:47 PM

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right

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:47 PM

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you know when we post memes here in discord?

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technically that is piracy in a similar fashion

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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isnt it literally piracy

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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someone owns the copyright on many of these memes

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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like giphy

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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piracy is bullshit

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its impossible for anyone to not be a pirate

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most people just do not realise

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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hollow sigil someone owns the copyright on many of these memes

arent they all literally copyrighted because thats how copyright works

hollow sigil Jan 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

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yes basically

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and now we have AI generated shit to complicate things even more

haughty grove Jan 22, 2025, 5:49 PM

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ok this is a bit off topic now and i should probably stop sleep deprivinf myself

see ya

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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@hollow sigil i now moved hl2 to the ssd and it is not working

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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just reinstall it

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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same issue

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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let steam download it

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the problem is the symlinks

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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hollow sigil just reinstall it

i did

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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no you moved it

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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i have two hl2s now

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is moving then reverifying bad

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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make a clean steam library on linux partition and it will work

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yes just dont move it

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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:(

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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let steam download

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or follow some guide

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:13 AM

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do i uninstall it now

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:13 AM

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verify integrity should fix it

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unless u have really borked the steam library

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 8:13 AM

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oh also putting the vr display to fullscreen crashes the wayland compositor and steamvr then complains installation is broken until restart

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alvr cant restart it either

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 8:38 AM

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unblock addson in steamvr settings

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 9:36 AM

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hollow sigil unblock addson in steamvr settings

its not blocked

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 12:46 PM

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Upon closer inspection, I am getting a VK_OUT_OF_MEMORY error in the ALVR logs the moment a game starts

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 1:35 PM

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i was ignoring it before since it seemed to be random but now its pretty consistent

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its saying its from Renderer.cpp:308

wherever that is

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📎 alvrlog

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 4:55 PM

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means your settings too high and your gpu cannot handle it

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combination of game and encode settings

haughty grove Jan 23, 2025, 4:57 PM

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but but why cant i just software encode so it uses the cpu instead? the vr game runs fine, seems to just fail streaming

hollow sigil Jan 23, 2025, 4:57 PM

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software encode is so slow it cant keep up with the game

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not much use for vr

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useful if you leave it running overnight to encode videos sure

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but not for realtime usage

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its a simple fact that you need a good gpu for vr

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:25 PM

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hollow sigil software encode is so slow it cant keep up with the game

no, using software encode gave me that error

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using nvenc gives me a bunch of errors about invalid parameters and levels

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after flipping a bunch of switches, i got it to use nvenc without any errors

same problem still

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:30 PM

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confirm the problem again plz - elite dangerous in vr right?

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and you confirmed that it works ok flatscreen without vr?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:30 PM

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hl2 and elite

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and the lab

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:31 PM

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hollow sigil and you confirmed that it works ok flatscreen without vr?

yup

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:31 PM

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i own all of these and have a quest3 so i can give it a shot

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you can load up into the steamvr home ok?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:31 PM

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yep but my pc somehow cant handle it

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stutters like crazy

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:31 PM

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ok confirm your steamvr custom options

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its probably not using your gpu

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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i switched it to gpu, the logs say nvenc

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wait

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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copy and paste the exact options here

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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steamvr?

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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getting laptops to use the right gpu is a constant problem for us

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life is much easier on a desktop when you can disable the igpu

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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am on a pc with one gpu

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i dont have an iGPU

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM

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this should be rly easy then

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you are using eos which is arch - you have nvidia installed ok - what could be wrong?

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nvidia-smi says what?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 12:36 PM

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the regulsr stuff? well ig the fan is at 31% and i dont get current watts use

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300mb/2000 vram

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 12:40 PM

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post the complete output here

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also still waiting to see your steamvr custom launch options

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:03 PM

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hollow sigil also still waiting to see your steamvr custom launch options

what

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didnt i already send that

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#1328894834702024765 message

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:04 PM

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ok but have you been changing stuff?

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the problem is now just bad performance right?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:04 PM

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no, it doesnt appear

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it appeared once, now it doesnt

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:05 PM

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and you still have that out of memory error in logs?

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turn settings down it seems

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:05 PM

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huh

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it appears something called steamtours is eating all the vram

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:05 PM

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oh yeah thats normal

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@hidden vale how we fix that again? mark it as not executable?

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are you testing after a proper reboot?

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if stuff crashes you must reboot - or kill zombies

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:07 PM

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hollow sigil are you testing after a proper reboot?

yes and its getting annoying

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how do i kill zombies

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i know killall steam kills steam but it doesnt kill steamvr fully for some reason so alvr is hooked into a nonexistent steamvr

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:08 PM

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i just reboot tbh - and yes its annoying

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the steam stuff just will not die

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because of the DRM i think

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thats direct rendering to gpu memory

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suspect the part running on the gpu wont die - cant kill it

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:09 PM

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direct rendering manager and not digital rights management right

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:09 PM

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yeah

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maybe for us nvidia users its more of a problem

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you have a gtx1050 - you are very constrained on video memory

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you need enough for the normal game stuff, and also more to to encoding

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maybe we can get rid of steamtours or something and save some

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you can try wivrn - and not use steamvr at all

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:11 PM

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figured out how to kill steamtours, just removed steam home from launching on start

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:11 PM

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hollow sigil you can try wivrn - and not use steamvr at all

what

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:11 PM

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yeah that would do it - can also do chmod -x on it - dont need to delete

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there are alternatives to steamvr - wivrn is one - try it out

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:12 PM

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oh my god, it worked for one frame and then steamvr crashed

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:13 PM

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logs say what?

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what alvr settings do you pick?

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if using high switch to low preset

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what resolution slider in steamvr set to?

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more super sampling uses more vram

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:14 PM

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hollow sigil what resolution slider in steamvr set to?

35%

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:14 PM

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ouch you already saving a lot

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i have to point out that you should really upgrade your gpu lol

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even if this does work it will be potato and not worth it

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:15 PM

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hollow sigil logs say what?

📎 alvrlog

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i dont know how to find the logs for steamvr

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:15 PM

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hollow sigil i have to point out that you should really upgrade your gpu lol

i really should lmao

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but this is just a test

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:15 PM

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17:20:07.029969455 [ERROR] error in encoder thread: Vulkan: VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORYat cpp/platform/linux/Renderer.cpp:803

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we have a hard limit here

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you can see what is using this VRAM if you run nvidia-smi

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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hollow sigil 17:20:07.029969455 [ERROR] error in encoder thread: Vulkan: VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVI...

what

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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what encode settings do you use?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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i dont

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wait maybe i sent the wrong log

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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hollow sigil you can see what is using this VRAM if you run nvidia-smi

it crashed at 1750mb/2gb

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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hollow sigil what encode settings do you use?

how do i send them lmao

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:16 PM

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yes because an alloc failed

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settings -> video

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preferred codec

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set to what?

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foveated encoding set to what?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:17 PM

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h264

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:17 PM

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hollow sigil foveated encoding set to what?

enabled

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:17 PM

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good

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:17 PM

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should i disable multipass

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:17 PM

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this helps performance - but at cost of vram i suspect - not sure if we should toggle it

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we want to turn off anything that costs us vram

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on the main presets tab in alvr what settings do you hvae?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

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so should i switch to i3wm to remove plasmashell from vr

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

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resolution what?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

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th0nk

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

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framerate what?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:18 PM

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hollow sigil on the main presets tab in alvr what settings do you hvae?

60hz
speed
everything else disabled

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:19 PM

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resolution what?

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:19 PM

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res very low

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:19 PM

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ok we cant turn stuff down lower than this

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steamvr cannot pick 60hz tho can it?

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if steamvr is set to 72 set alvr to 72 as well

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not that this matters for our vram

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:20 PM

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steamvr keeps doing 90hz for some reason

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:20 PM

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what is it set to?

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if we cannot get rid of this VRAM error im afraid you may need to upgrade

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or maybe try wivrn

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but there is no magical way to download more vram

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:21 PM

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why cant it encode using system ram aaah

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:21 PM

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hollow sigil or maybe try wivrn

yay is still building it

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:21 PM

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gpu can only operate on local gpu memory

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if you are using system memory you would need to copy it to gpu

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:21 PM

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aw

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:22 PM

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some architectures have both shared - but this is not same as usual pc

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these nvidia gpus are really a completely seperate computer - they have their own arm64 processor even

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:22 PM

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do i go 90hz because steamvr says so

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:22 PM

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hollow sigil these nvidia gpus are really a completely seperate computer - they have their ow...

what

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:22 PM

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no you set it as low as you can

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:22 PM

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60 then

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:23 PM

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you set it to whatever work tbh - but we cant find that

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:23 PM

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oh my god steamvr crashed instsntly again

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how do i get steamvr logs

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:24 PM

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look in similar place to the vrmonitor program

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:24 PM

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wivrn is stuck at

-- Checking for module 'libnotify'
-- Found libnotify, version 0.8.3

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:24 PM

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i just use the wivrn flatpak

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note that wivrn and steamvr are incompatible - they will not coexist happily

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once you install wivrn it probably breaks openvr settings

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:25 PM

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does it use monado

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:25 PM

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yes

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:25 PM

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or am i confused

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ok

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do i uninstall steamvr now

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:25 PM

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https://wivrn.github.io/#get-started

WiVRn - Wireless Virtual Reality streaming for Linux

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just dont run steamvr

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and make sure no zombies as usual, which is impossible without reboot

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:26 PM

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am on phonevr

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would i need alxr

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 1:26 PM

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i dunno lol

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:27 PM

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blergh

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alxr looks broken on android

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am fucked!!?

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what about windows then, i was thinking linux has more of a chance

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:<

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w h a t

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okay off i go installing windows back to my system

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id go to a vr arcade to try this stuff out if i liked it if there was one near me instead of..this

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b570 or b580 is what am looking at

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yes

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what i thought it was better than nvidia

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aw man

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i do not know how amd gpus

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expensib

dull meadowBOT Jan 24, 2025, 1:43 PM

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Hello! This is automatic message for message containing words "6500 xt"
Please note this GPU doesn't have hardware encoders and will perform poorly in vr. You will fallback to software (CPU encoding), so expect high CPU usage from SteamVR/ALVR

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 1:44 PM

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wait what

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what do you mean a gpu doesnt have encoders

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is software like 10fps

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is there a list of considerables

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man its all expensive

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oh well

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:<

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last question, is windows better for vr things

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perhaps. i just deleted it tho
gonna take me a bit to get all my files and stuff as i want them

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say if i wait 2 years for intel drivers.. th0nk

~~am joking~~

hollow sigil Jan 24, 2025, 3:38 PM

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just buy whatever mid-range nvidia or amd gpu you can afford - dont overthink this too much

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and yes gpus are fucking expensive, we all know

haughty grove Jan 24, 2025, 4:13 PM

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hollow sigil just buy whatever mid-range nvidia or amd gpu you can afford - dont overthink th...

3rd world country problems

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:/

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ill probably give up

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thanks tho

main nebula Jan 25, 2025, 12:10 AM

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the heck how come it doesnt have encoders, thats crazy

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amd does some weird stuff

hollow sigil Jan 25, 2025, 9:11 AM

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thats how they made it very very cheap i guess

main nebula Feb 2, 2025, 2:35 PM

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hollow sigil thats how they made it very very cheap i guess

in my country they sell the rx 6500 xt for 90~110% of the price of a rx 6600

haughty grove Feb 7, 2025, 4:23 PM

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i installed windows for another thing and had a chance to test this

it just kept disconnecting, it was even worse

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