[BUG] [REGRESSION] Black screen for 3D scenes when using VRLink

Open daggintosh opened this issue 3 months ago • 8 comments

Describe the bug When in-game on both OpenVR and OpenXR titles, nothing is visible except for 2d elements like the HUD on openvr titles. On said overlays, the left eye's view of the overlay is completely distorted.

Everything becomes visible while the dashboard is open. However, the HUD is still distorted, albeit less (in this case it's darker than it normally is).

SteamVR dashboard closed, nothing but distorted overlay visible SteamVR dashboard open, scene visible but overlay is darkened

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Open any title (Black screen). OR Open any OpenVR title that utilizes 2d hud elements.
Open SteamVR dashboard

Expected behavior All elements visible and with correct brightness. (ALVR example with correct appearance of HUD) Expected behavior, ALVR 20.14.1

System Information:

Steam client version: 1758150255 (17 Sept 2025)
SteamVR version: 2.13.4 (6:22 pm build)
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
Steam runtime diagnostics: Gist
Steam and SteamVR logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
Minidumps: steam-minidumps.tar.gz

Additional context Started occurring after the last Steam beta client update.

Upon closing SteamVR while a game is open, it does... this.... in both eyes. Followed shortly by a complete steam client crash, attached logs and dumps also should show this.

Sep 18 '25 13:09 daggintosh