severe performance drop when opening the menu in vr.

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Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open SteamVR
2. get in vr
3. click the menu button to open the steam menu in vr
4. see laggy movement and alot of stuttering/dropped frames.

Expected behavior smooth motion and no lag, just like on windows. also virtual desktops.

System Information (please complete the following information):

• Distribution: [Garuda (arch based)]
• SteamVR version: [E.g. 1.23.7]
• Steam client version: [built Sep 28 2022, at 00:52:47]
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [No]
• Graphics driver version: [run nvidia-settings or vulkaninfo | grep driverInfo:
• Gist for SteamVR System Information: [See gist here]

Performance Data (optional, but very helpful):

• CPU:
• GPU:
• Gist for perf top: [See instructions] debug commands would open a blank box and somehow enabling gpu profiling fixed some of the issues i was having?
• Link to gpuvis trace: [See instructions]

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem. If possible, also include screenshot of vrmonitor's timing graph.

Additional context Motion in general is laggy and behind what i'm actually doing in the steamvr loading area. opening the menu amplifies this. motion becomes much more snappy in game but the menu still causes major performance issues. virtual desktops don't work but seem to make it a little worse. frames are stuttery and it doesn't look at all like 144hz. motion smoothing would probably help this. enabling gpu profiling, then restarting and following the prompt fixed some issues. it helped alot with performance opening the vr menu. it also enabled desktops to work. i could switch between them by moving my corsor over and it would automatically switch. my corsor was not at all alligned with where i was pointing. my cursor was far to the left of where i was pointing.

Note: Commenters who are also experiencing this issue are encouraged to include the "System Information" and "Perf Data" sections in their replies.

[Tiavor]

hey, I have the same problem.

steam-vr sytem report: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dlqqg6o2i2ztszinogmit/SteamVR-2025-12-03-AM_10_42_48.txt?rlkey=mx72ymv9k8lo1xcl9nq66e927&st=fmkll8do&dl=0 (I used dropbox because Gist had an error and it's too big for pastebin)

This is how it normally looks (in SteamVR home)

and this is when I open the Steam menu: