📅 2023-04-03 — Session: Troubleshooting SteamVR and Linux Gaming Issues
🕒 04:05–04:20
🏷️ Labels: Steamvr, Linux, Troubleshooting, Gaming, Drivers
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The session aimed to resolve various gaming-related issues on SteamVR and Linux platforms, focusing on installation errors, driver conflicts, and troubleshooting techniques.
Key Activities:
- Addressed the ‘Failed to init SteamVR because it isn’t installed’ error by providing detailed installation and configuration instructions.
- Explored the impact of SteamVR initialization failures on playing Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, identifying potential gameplay errors.
- Investigated the ‘BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)’ error on Linux with NVIDIA drivers, suggesting solutions like driver downgrades and updates.
- Compiled a checklist for gathering necessary information to troubleshoot system issues effectively.
- Discussed troubleshooting methods for Steam issues on Linux, including errors related to X11, OpenVR SDK, DXVK, and LD_PRELOAD settings.
- Provided a guide on checking the Steam client version, detailing steps to access the ‘About Steam’ menu.
Achievements:
- Clarified installation and configuration steps for SteamVR.
- Identified potential causes and solutions for Linux gaming errors with NVIDIA drivers.
- Developed a comprehensive checklist for system issue troubleshooting.
Pending Tasks:
- Further testing and validation of the proposed solutions on different Linux distributions and hardware configurations to ensure compatibility.