Strange bugs and errors

[upper coral]

Does anyone know why I might be getting these swarms of errors and even the alvr window crashing, but steamvr is still being streamed to my headset just fine?

I'm using the Quest 3 headset on Arch, I have an nvidia 3060

I would get logs, but the "Open logs directory" just opens my home folder in my web browser.

Not sure where they're meant to go.

[cursive yacht]

https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/Linux-Troubleshooting
read this carefully - the fixes you need are detailed in the hybrid gpu section
note that you must launch steam with special options, and ALSO steamvr with special options

this assumes its a laptop, if its a desktop when disable your igpu and thats easy fix

this also assumes you have nvidia drivers installed properly - run nvidia-smi to check

[upper coral]

thanks for your response. hybrid shouldn't apply to me, i don't have integrated graphics. it's odd to me that my game still streams fine despite these apparent errors.

and alvr's window crashing as well.

[cursive yacht]

what does nvidia-smi say?

so you say it all works? and the errors are just spurious?

[upper coral]

I'll have to get that later, my computer is offline, i ran it before and everything seemed fine at the time

[upper coral]

that's what i was saying, yes

although maybe the performance was being impacted

but it's a pain because i can't adjust any options when this happens

[cursive yacht]

working with potato quality does not rly count

its falling back to software encoding and not using your gpu is what it probably means

[upper coral]

that works add up

it would explain why it runs fine in the steam "waiting area" where nothing is happening

i was running a heavily modded game so i couldn't tell if it was just bogged down from that

[cursive yacht]

solution is to probably reinstall nvidia drivers - which ones are you using?

[upper coral]

I'll have to get back to you on that so i can get you a better answer than "the latest of whatever i installed"

I ran endeavour's driver installing script that's meant to get the recommended drivers for my system however.

is there a way i can see if alvr has fell back to software encoding?

[cursive yacht]

by looking at logs

[upper coral]

unfortunately i hit this

[cursive yacht]

how did u install alvr?

if you used aur or whatever - use official instead https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/releases/tag/v20.14.1

get launcher

[upper coral]

will do

are you aware the GitHub still recommends the aur?

[cursive yacht]

yeah everyone is too lazy to update that