I can confirm this is also happening to me. Steam VR with Valve Index.
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Just bumping this post again. It was fixed on Friday last week, and now after today’s update it’s doing it once again…
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Yup, can confirm the bug is back
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Found a fix for this. If you want to toggle VR, put on your headset and navigate to settings (the same place you change your graphics quality) and toggle the VR mode. If you can’t access this, you can navigate to /AppData/Local/Roblox and access the file “GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml” or “GlobalBasicSettings_13_Studio” for roblox and roblox studio respectively. Set the value for “VREnabled” to false and reopen the application. While the issue of VR mode being set to true by default is still a problem, its effects can be mitigated by the steps above.
Edit, this fix does not work. See my current fix here: Roblox Force Launches in VR... Again - #29 by Ophidie
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This doesn’t fix it. Even with VR turned off, steam VR still force launches automatically. The game won’t be in VR mode, but it’s still linked to SteamVR until you unplug your VR equipment
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That’s weird, once I disabled VR mode via the settings, SteamVR didn’t launch upon opening a game.
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Bug is still occurring for me. I setup vr every night - so having to unplug it to develop is annoying, and I don’t like wearing out the connectors. Hopefully it’s fixed soon
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Crazy right, almost like VR mode was enabled
You misunderstand. He was reporting that the bug wasn’t effecting him.
For context though, this is for studio opening vr when opened, regardless of settings. Not normal roblox.
The normal Roblox client is launching Steam VR for me right now, even when Steam itself isn’t launched. I don’t even see an option in Roblox settings to turn off VR. Did they remove that option?
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This keeps regressing. Can’t even open Roblox Studio unless I disconnect my cable, which has a high chance of breaking it since the breakaway cable is not meant for this, and I will not unplug 3 cables I can barely reach every time I open Studio. Absurd. Get this under control please.
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Bumping the thread - is still currently an issue.
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It’s been nearly two months. This is incredibly frustrating and is causing wear on my vr cables. If I could at least get a response from roblox staff to know that this is being worked on it would mean a lot.
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For those who needs a temporary fix which disables Roblox VR. Open your File Explorer, Head into “C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local” and then scroll down until you find a folder named “openvr”. Delete this and Roblox should launch normally without in VR.
Keep in mind that this folder will reappear whenever you launch your pc or play SteamVR. As long as you delete it before you launch Roblox, everything should be fine.
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Haven’t tried this yet, but if this works then this is huge for me - still annoying, but my biggest concern has been wearing out the connectors for my vr headset as they are known to be rather sensitive. Thank you!
Edit, can confirm this works BUT it requires I reset my pc in order to use vr on anything again. Still, better than causing wear on my cables, but not ideal.
EDIT2: Simply restarting steam can get vr working again, so this is relatively minor in that light
Thanks for the report. We’ll follow up when we have an update for you!
I’m just hoping the fix is taking this long because they’re working on something permanent
It’s a real pain. I didn’t wanted to repeat the same process of deleting the folder everytime so I just made a .bat file that does it for me. (I looked up how to make it.)
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Over two months later and it’s still an issue.
I also made a bat file to fix this issue - open notepad, enter this in, and replace the folderaddress and robloxappaddress with the actual directories, respectively, and save the file as .bat
This deletes openvr and starts roblox studio automatically (You do have to re-enter the second address when roblox updates, so just the first line works for removing the file if you’d prefer that)
rd /s /q “FolderAddressHere”
start RobloxAppAddressHere
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This issue is still occurring (on both studio and the normal client), my current fix is as follows:
Navigate to Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and rename the “SteamVR” folder to something else, I chose “SteamVRDISABLED”. SteamVR will no longer launch under any circumstance. Beware, when SteamVR updates it will create a new folder and ignore the old “disabled” folder (reversing the fix). If you want to re-enable vr, just rename the original folder back to “SteamVR” and it will launch normally.
Of course this is not a total fix, but its better than disabling openvr or physically unplugging cables.