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jacobot1 / Low-Cost_VR

A guide for anyone with a decent PC desiring a cheap VR experience.
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Unable to connect phone #1

Open TheUnknownHack3r opened 3 months ago

TheUnknownHack3r commented 3 months ago

Hello, I found your guide and thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, SteamVR still crashes after connecting my phone (I have reported the bug at https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/issues/2316). Are there any other steps I can try?

jacobot1 commented 3 months ago

Hello, I found your guide and thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, SteamVR still crashes after connecting my phone (I have reported the bug at alvr-org/ALVR#2316). Are there any other steps I can try?

I see you are attempting to run this with only 8GB DDR3 RAM and an embedded GPU. I have 16GB DDR5 and an RTX 3060 and my computer will run it but just barely. I have looked at forums elsewhere and people say 16GB RAM is really the bare minimum for SteamVR and that 32 or 64 leaves a little more room. And you really have to have some sort of dedicated GPU to run VR of any kind.

TheUnknownHack3r commented 3 months ago

I understand that my laptop is under-powered, but I just want to see if I can get it to run at all. As for RAM, I'm not too worried since I have 8GB swap in addition to 16GB ZRAM (ZRAM is this thing where data on RAM gets compressed when needed). And like I mentioned, the crash only happens when I connect my phone to ALVR. Should I try anything in the connection settings?

jacobot1 commented 3 months ago

I understand that my laptop is under-powered, but I just want to see if I can get it to run at all. As for RAM, I'm not too worried since I have 8GB swap in addition to 16GB ZRAM (ZRAM is this thing where data on RAM gets compressed when needed). And like I mentioned, the crash only happens when I connect my phone to ALVR. Should I try anything in the connection settings?

First of all, you should connect your phone to your computer with USB tethering and get everything connected properly with ALVR BEFORE you launch SteamVR. In the ALVR Dashboard, you should see Connected under the Connections tab before you open SteamVR.

To reduce load on your CPU, you could try manually setting the resolution below the Very Low preset in the ALVR Dashboard under Settings/Video.

TheUnknownHack3r commented 3 months ago

Huh, maybe I'm missing something. It says "Streamer not connected" and won't connect to any clients before I open SteamVR. I've tried manually connecting the client, but it says "Disconnected" until I open SteamVR.