Hey Gamers! I have a friend who needs a hand, their message is quoted below without edits. They’re on Garuda Dragonized Gaming Edition. I don’t have any other details, but let me know if I need to ask them anything.

“Sure. I think the issue is I’m running a Quest 3, and I can’t hard-wire it, my desktop has no USB C, so I need to go over wifi. I tried ALVR, and nothing would talk to eachother, which was never an issue before. The headset wouldn’t talk to ALVR, and ALVR wouldn’t talk to SteamVR. ChatGPT told me to install and manually set the path to OpenXR and that did nothing. I never had an issue with my headset talking to windows, so I don’t think it’s my network, I dunno”

  • The Gamer's Tavern@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Hey Lynn!

    I’m in a similar situation but I’ve been able to play VR games through ALVR and the Quest 2 without an issue.

    For starters, your friend doesn’t need a specific USB C cable, he could use a USB C connected to the Quest 3 and a USB A 3.0 connected to the PC.

    I take it that he installed ALVR through the AUR, being Garuda an Arch-Linux (I use Arch BTW) distro. I had several issues with that version and I fixed every issue using the alvr_streamer_linux.tar.gz download in the release page, see here for instructions.

    Things that should be taken in consideration:

    • both the ALVR client (installed on the Quest) and the ALVR server (running on the PC) should be the same version number
    • the latest SteamVR patch breaks ALVR, hence it’s mandatory to select “previous_version” through the Beta configuration of SteamVR (see here