#SteamVR crashes to white screen

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Hey

I used the search but couldn’t find a post that describes my scenario.

When I start SteamVR (doesn’t matter if through ALVR or SA from Steam) I get a few seconds after starting a white screen with the message: something went wrong and the system can’t recover. Accompanied by a log out button. Then the screen disappears and I land in the window chooser from Gnome ( that screen where all windows are arranged next to each other). Two windows appear that seem to be the vrmonitor (my guess) and one flickers two times ending an in a dark blurry background. When started through ALVR with my device manually added, I have the construct from steamvr on the viewer. The second I click one of the windows from the chooser screen I end up in the white screen again and my only option is to log out.

I have a RTX4090 working with the official NVIDIA drivers. Steam works like a Charme and NVIDIA-smi shows all correct informations.

I reinstalled ALVR with the NVIDIA optimization. I reinstalled steamvr with all configs deleted before. My last option would be a complete reinstall from scratch (my arch installation) but I wanted to ask here first.

I found out yesterday that my NVIDIA drivers were installed with flatpak first and I reinstalled the original package from NVIDIA yesterday.

I hope someone here might have an idea as this is the only thing I didn’t manage to get working to leave windows for ever.

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Seriously? Everything else is working. I still can play games on steam

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Ok. So your guess would be to do a fresh install from the start? Then I’ll be sure no traces of the package would be left.

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I tinkered 3 days but with my knowledge now I guess i can get it in a few hours working again to the now state

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As you can see on the picture the parameters are set

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Hmmkay. I read everywhere use the proprietary package for steam snd ge-proton

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Ok. I’ll wait if someone has a another idea as the earliest I could do a reinstall would be tomorrow or late tonight… thank you for your fast reply and the insights on the NVIDIA package

mystic temple
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disable your igpu - and try kde

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if you have flatpak steam then your setup does not look correct for steamvr

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for alvr make sure to use launcher from github - and not to use AUR or other method that will not work

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i havent tried gnome in long time - but kde works fine with steamvr beta right now

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fyi with flatpak you get additional nvidia drivers installed - but they have to match the host

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its not either one or the other - its both

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there is no reason to reinstall from scratch - that will change nothin

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sounds like cannot into flatpak

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mentioned above in confusion

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"I found out yesterday that my NVIDIA drivers were installed with flatpak first" this is very confused

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doing random stuff means system is in random state

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still probably igpu problem tho

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modern cpus all have them

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I installed everything from scratch. Took me about 3 hours to get back to my set state (including NZXT liquidctl and Razer support) but now everything works. ALVR worked on second try and steamvr like it should. I tried to compile alvr-nvidia but it crashed. Then I downloaded the launcher and this worked.

Thanks for your help and effort.

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In my initial post I mentioned a RTX4090.

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mystic temple
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flatpak has its own copy of nvidia - but it has to match host or it wont work

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this means you have to run flatpak update also after updating system

pseudo star
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The last time I played around with Linux is several years ago and it was Ubuntu. Never had to think about flatpak. But I understand it as „docker“ like. As they create sandboxes for every app?

mystic temple
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pretty much yes

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but containers can share layers

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alvr uses the steamvr container for example

pseudo star
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I think I understand

mystic temple
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you can open a command prompt inside the steam flatpak like so: flatpak run --command=bash com.valvesoftware.Steam

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I installed steam via pacman

mystic temple
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thats fine - just make sure you only have one steam installed - or things get very confusing

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Thank you. Maybe it was a good idea anyway to do a clean reinstall after experimenting with all my hardware to get supported by the os

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Razer daemon still is a bit odd and acts like frozen but it works okay

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Thank you. Going to experiment with the streamer settings. The Pico4 Ultra can utilize AV1 if I remember correctly

pseudo star
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Hey, I got the exact same issue again. I installed space Marine 2 on steam and brave browser through flatpak. I am confused and have absolutely no clue what happened

mystic temple
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is steam a flatpak or not?

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mystic temple
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and you are sure there is no other steam still lingering from flatpak?

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100% I was still on my fresh system install. I had to work the last days and had no time to tinker.

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With flatpak I have installed proton-up, brave and I think it was extension manager

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I removed brave but still crashing

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I have read on Reddit that tray icon extensions might „disturb“ steamvr.

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Will check that later if this is the issue. But now I am going to prepare dinner

mystic temple
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if you are not using flatpak steam then how are you using flatpak proton?

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sry there is a lot of inconsistency here - are you sure you have what you think you have?

pseudo star
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And it was indeed my tray icon extensions. Deactivated them and SteamVR is running again

mystic temple
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ok this tool can download the native proton for you as well it seems

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still not the patched version of proton that you want for hdr and other stuff tho - but not relevant for vr

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I use ge-proton

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