Issue with Valve Index

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 9 months ago

Issue with Valve Index

Scarlet0952@lemm.ee · edit-2 8 months ago

For me it does something similar most of the time

I plug the headset in, start streamvr, and it falls to connect to the headset display, with red lights on the headset

What fixes it for me is just hitting quilt vr on the steamvr window, unplugging the headset, plugging it back in and then starting steamvr

Then it usually works

In my experience after reboots, or after extended periods of time without running vr, I have to do this dance to get it to work, I don’t know why

I’m running an RTX 3090 with the proprietary drivers on Arch KDE X11, with the native (non flatpak) steam package

Fisch@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

SteamVR has weird issues like that sometimes but restarting it or logging out and back in has always fixed it for me (aside from that one time I had to replace the headset cable)

Euphoma@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

Try using distrobox arch. I did that on nixos and after some troubleshooting I got it to work.

wolfruff@pawb.social · 8 months ago

Listen, ill be real with you, its basically unusable and unreliable in most scenarios. The technical reason for this is due to Wayland vs X11 and other underdeveloped display technology. Normal gaming just got good enough after years of work. And before anyone tells me that the Index does work on Linux, it sure does just not well at all.

I have since sold my Index but when I used it, 80% of it was on windows. Be on the lookout for something called the Valve Deckard. I believe thats when Linux VR will finally be ready.

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 months ago

… I’ll also be real with you and tell you something terrible. I installed Windows just to test if it works there and it did not. The same red lights, the same error. This seems like either my graphics card has some problems with it, or the headset is simply faulty. Unfortunatly I did not purchase this one new, but used, so no warrenty. It was for “only” 400€, and it came with perfectly functioning base stations and controllers. It’s “just” the headset display which does not work. You think it would make more sense to purchase a new headset specifically or to sell all the base stations and controllers to purchase a simple htc vive 1 ?

wolfruff@pawb.social · 8 months ago

I would get a brand new headset from valve if I were you cause its going to be worth more to sell all of your stuff as a complete set in the future if you need to vs an old vive with that stuff.

Would only cost you a hundred more than you bought the used one for and its worth it cause Index is still the best VR experience you can get at the moment imo.

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 months ago

You mean I should buy only the headset new, right? I think that makes loads of sense. Unfortunately right now the headset is not available.

wolfruff@pawb.social · 8 months ago

Oh damn yeah it must not be available in your country right now sorry. I just assumed if it was available for us mericans it would be for everyone else :(

StefanT@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Honestly I doubt it that Deckard will change that much. First the basics must be fixed. My Index is also laying around collecting dust. Worked okay-ish at first but is mostly unusable at the moment.

Atemu@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

The vrcompositor failed to initialise. Check the vrcompositor log in the Steam log files directory.

phx@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago

I see you noted how you’re running gnome and what video card, but not how you’re running Steam, so I’ll ask:

How is Steam installed on your system? I know some people use a flatpak-based install but one of the potential issues with Flatpak (also Snap) is permissions to certain locations or devices can sometimes require extra config.

If you’re currently running from Flatpak, perhaps try the direct install from .DEB instead

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 months ago

I am using the apt version of steam, so that should be fine

Fisch@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

I use a Valve Index on GNOME as well, so here’s a few things:

VR doesn’t work yet on GNOME Wayland, you need to select GNOME on Xorg when logging in
Sometimes the LEDs are red and the headset doesn’t get detected, just unplug the cable and plug it back in
You might also need to press on the cable where it connects on the headset sometimes, it can become a little loose
Use CoreCTRL to manually set the GPU performance profile to high, it doesn’t do that automatically for some reason and there’s a huge performance difference
If you have the issue that moving your head makes it look like the image is jumping back and forth, go into the per-application video settings of the game from SteamVRs menu and turn on Legacy reprojection
- This only happens when I have very low FPS, the CoreCTRL thing fixed it for me without having to use this option
There’s an older SteamVR version for Linux you can select as a beta option for SteamVR in Steam but I’d actually not recommend using it, it only works when games use Proton 5 and there are newer games that don’t work with a Proton verison that old. A lot of the issues the regular SteamVR version had are fixed now and it works pretty well for me.

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 months ago

What exactly do you mean by “press”? In which direction? I have plugged the cable into the headset until it kinda clicked, like a thump, so I thought that would be enough. So yeah, press in which direction? Also I have tried all the steamVR versions, so yeah that’s likely not the issue

Fisch@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

It’s just in case you have issues with the headset not getting detected, the cable can become a little loose and you might need to press it into where it connects to the headset

ffhein@lemmy.world · edit-2 9 months ago

When you say you got a new cable, you mean an original tether cable, which is connected directly to the graphics card without adapters or extension cables?

Also, are you using Nvidia’s closed source drivers or Nouveau?

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months ago

Yes exactly that. I got a new cable, the one which goes from headset into the graphics card. I am using the latest Nvidia-driver package from apt, so yes the proprietary one. No extension cables anywhere.

ffhein@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Any possibility to verify that the headset’s power adapter is working? E.g. multimeter

I saw someone suggesting a headset firmware reset for this issue, but others are saying they had to RMA their headset when they got solid red lights on it :(

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months ago

Unfortunately I don’t have a multimeter. As I said, the tracking works perfectly and even the IPD adjustment works. It’s just the display which does not seem to work The headset also gets warm while in “use” even though it doesn’t display stuff. How would I got about resetting the firmware?

ffhein@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

I only have a Vive, but according to reddit this how you do it :) https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/c8wvft/how_to_reset_hmd_back_to_factory_firmware/

And just brainstorming here, I think I’ve had problems in the past where I had multiple high resolution + high framerate monitors, though it might’ve been on my work computer where I had a docking station… What other monitors are you using? Have you tried lower framerates? My last graphics card was a GTX1080 which is similar to yours, but I don’t remember if that one had any peculiarities with VR. Back then I dual booted Windows for VR since it didn’t work well enough on Linux

socphoenix@midwest.social · 9 months ago

What graphics card are you using? What driver is installed for it?

How do you have the USB’s plugged in for the headset and lighthouses?

Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months ago

The lighthouses I only have plugged in to the wall. They magically connected to steam VR, and both appear as green. As said before, the tracking works perfectly, even for the knuckles controllers. I have a GTX 1060 with 6GB of VRAM. I’m using the latest version of the Nvidia-driver package (It’s something like 525 or somethin). I don’t think I need to plug the lighthouses right into the PC…

HouseWolf@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

I have an original Vive and the only time I had to plug the lighthouses into the PC was to update the firmware through Steam.

Rest of the time I also only had them plugged into power.