Caused my SteamVR to crash and now nether my Index nor Vive is being detected. No matter what solutions I try error 208 always comes up, one of my HDMI ports also stopped working. Idk how but this app managed brick one of my HDMI ports and completely break SteamVR. I hadn't used VD is years and have had no technical issues with VR as I've been making heavy use of my Index over the last few weeks. That is, right up until I launched VD for the first time in ages, almost right away problems started then suddenly, after just moving my controller slightly, my entire SteamVR crashed and I encountered all the problems mentioned above.


VD also has recently added always online DRM and the dev has been extremely unprofessional towards anyone raising concerns about it. They've also been replying to reviews pretending like they didn't do this and accusing people of making reviews for "the wrong game or software" which is just kinda sad tbh. They aren't technically lying when they say the steam app didn't change but they did in fact add always online DRM to platforms outside Steam, not to mention the blatant unprofessionalism, which is still very scummy.


Edit/update: got my SteamVR working by turning off my PC, leaving it off for a while, as well as unplugging my headset from both my PC and the power cord. Once everything started up again SteamVR was working fine after testing in other, more functional, games. Against my better judgement I tried VD again and it started having issues but got by for a while. I left it running unattended for a bit and was surprised to see it didn't crash a second time but last time the crash was caused by moving my controllers so the fact it was left unattended was likely the only reason it didn't crash again. From now on I'm just going to stick to other alternatives like Bigscreen, which is only a bit better but not much, or this ALVR I've seen other reviews mention.

Caused my SteamVR to crash and now nether my Index nor Vive is being detected. No matter what solutions I try error 208 always comes up, one of my HDMI ports also stopped working. Idk how but this app managed brick one of my HDMI ports and completely break SteamVR. I hadn't used VD is years and have had no technical issues with VR as I've been making heavy use of my Index over the last few weeks. That is, right up until I launched VD for the first time in ages, almost right away problems started then suddenly, after just moving my controller slightly, my entire SteamVR crashed and I encountered all the problems mentioned above. VD also has recently added always online DRM and the dev has been extremely unprofessional towards anyone raising concerns about it. They've also been replying to reviews pretending like they didn't do this and accusing people of making reviews for "the wrong game or software" which is just kinda sad tbh. They aren't technically lying when they say the steam app didn't change but they did in fact add always online DRM to platforms outside Steam, not to mention the blatant unprofessionalism, which is still very scummy. Edit/update: got my SteamVR working by turning off my PC, leaving it off for a while, as well as unplugging my headset from both my PC and the power cord. Once everything started up again SteamVR was working fine after testing in other, more functional, games. Against my better judgement I tried VD again and it started having issues but got by for a while. I left it running unattended for a bit and was surprised to see it didn't crash a second time but last time the crash was caused by moving my controllers so the fact it was left unattended was likely the only reason it didn't crash again. From now on I'm just going to stick to other alternatives like Bigscreen, which is only a bit better but not much, or this ALVR I've seen other reviews mention.