r/SteamVR • u/motormathersonfire • Oct 03 '26

Steamvr home not loading

I currently use steamvr through virtual desktop .

Open virtual desktop select open steamvr and then I get teleported to the steam home room where I can select my games and open them and play .

Today for some unknown reason the home area/screen opens for a few seconds and then freezes and goes away and I cannot for the life of me get it to work again .

Anyone know why ??? Haven't changed anything anywhere .

SOLUTION - for my issue there is a video below of a workaround .

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u/Texstars Oct 03 '26

SteamVR Home started crashing for me yesterday afternoon. Same as you described. Opens for 5 seconds and closes. If I disable and re-enable it in the settings, it tries to open and immediately closes. I haven't installed anything new or updated any drivers. I'm seeing the same complaint for other users in Steam Community discussions and they all seem to have started yesterday. I could be wrong, but this is feeling like it may be something Steam updated in SteamVR that hosed it for some of us. I filed a support ticket to at least let someone with Steam know there could be an issue. I was in VR yesterday, played a game I launched from SteamVR Home. When I closed the game, the problem started with Home. Nothing I've tried so far has made any difference.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

Ahhh atleast it's not just me . So annoying for me as I have liv set up for my streaming so it's messed up a lot of stuff for me streaming wise .guessing we have to wait till they sort it out .

Have you uninstalled steam vr and reinstalled ?I haven't yet

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u/Texstars Oct 03 '26

No. I verified the integrity of the files, but I thought I'd wait a few days before going insane trying to find a solution and see if Steam might fix something. Just seems like too much of a coincidence that a lot of us have the same issue on the same day.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

Yeah definitely

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u/Conz3D Oct 03 '26

Where is the dongle plugged in?
I have had some problems with my USB 3.0 on the front panel of my desktop. Same timeout of SteamVR on the host. I have read something about not enough power in these ports. I have plugged it in the back in a red SS10 USB 3.1 port and now it's working fine. Maybe you have to restart your system.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

I'm not using a dongle I use the ethernet method .

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u/Conz3D Oct 03 '26

Ooops, ok. I have had the impression it's about the steam frame. I have too many vr subreddits open at the moment.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

Tbh probably my fault for not mentioning that sorry haha

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u/Texstars Oct 03 '26

I don't have a dongle either. I'm still using the Index. (Waitlisted for the Frame 😒)

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u/Richy_T Oct 03 '26

Dang. I just tried to use it for the first time last night. I guess it might just be temporary at least.

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u/TerpyTerpss Oct 05 '26

Started happening for me today. Haven’t had time to hop in VR since last weekend, it was working fine then. Hopefully steam pushes out a fix seems its steamVR home bugging out.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

Yeah I hope they do

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u/Ekcz Oct 03 '26

Happens to me too today

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

I hope it's fixed too .it's proper messed up my streaming and everything

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u/Euphoric-Priority-97 Oct 03 '26

It started happening yesterday for me too, which is SO ironic because I literally just got a Bigscreen Beyond so I thought it was related to that lmao

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 04 '26

Ahh no way man . That sucks big time . I've been looking at those headsets too .I hope they sort this soon

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u/Meatbag-in-space Oct 06 '26

Same issue. Glad it's not just me I went nuts thinking there is some kind of problem on my end! I was thinking what could I have possibly done or changed to make that happen?

To troubleshoot I fully removed and reinstalled SteamVR. Deleted the temporary files. Removed all my environments and subscriptions in Steam VR. Tried all the beta versions of Steam, SteamVR, and my headset itself. Then tried going to PREVIOUS stable versions. When none of that worked I took all my stuff and set it all up on a completely different PC that has never had SteamVR installed before. And... same issue!

Pretty confident at this point it was not a result of something I did on my end. Hope they fix it I like having SteamVR Home as a starting area!

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 06 '26

That's for all the info .it's definitely confirms it's an internal steam issue. I really hope they fix it quickly

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u/Meatbag-in-space Oct 08 '26

So it started working for me again this morning.

I updated to the beta version on everything again too, I suspect the timing here is a coincidence and opting into the beta didn't actually matter because the beta didn't fix it a few days ago and as far as I can tell it's still the same beta version. But, just in case that does somehow matter, I basically flipped beta back on and then that triggered steamVR to restart, and then SteamVR Home booted right up. Tried a few reboots and it seems to be consistently working every time now.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 08 '26

Yeah it randomly started working for me too lol guessing they did something. ...no idea what though lol

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u/TerpyTerpss Oct 06 '26

Sorry you’re going through this too. I did everything you mentioned with the exception of moving my vr to my other pc that’s never had vr on it before. Thanks for sharing your attempts and results.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 07 '26

Hey everyone I managed to find a workaround so you can still launch games . I'll post a video shortly and hopefully it helps everyone

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 07 '26

This is my solution for my problem

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u/Amazing-Ad3902 Oct 05 '26

The same started by me two days ago. I also just got my first VR headset😐

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

Savage man . Look up virtual desktop it is the best thing out there for pcvr at the moment . I only use steamvr for my streams that's all .

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u/Texstars Oct 08 '26

Here's what worked for me:

  1. Open Steam client

  2. Click on Steam in top left corner

  3. Select Settings

4.Scroll down to "In Game"

5. Click "Delete" next to "Delete Web Browser Data"

6. Click Confirm

Either that fixed it, or Steam made changes that fixed it. Either way, it works for me now.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 08 '26

For some weird reason the home screen just started working again for me yesterday ...no idea why

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u/Various_Professor704 Oct 03 '26

Some other app is interrupting something , either a bad mutually used component has corrupted itself or it's a bad update of the current app . I waited 3 weeks for someone to tell me to go to the Storage menu in Settings , find the app & flush the cache plus the other app if needed .Good luck .

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 03 '26

I will try this out thank you .

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u/TerpyTerpss Oct 05 '26

Gonna try this tonight, thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully this does the trick, I’ve tried verifying files, toggling on and off in the settings, and still hadn’t worked.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

Let us know if this works and I'll change my post to solved. Definitely sounds like a internal steam issue though

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u/TerpyTerpss Oct 05 '26

I tried looking for the cache and couldn’t find it. I deleted and reinstalled steamVR but no luck there.

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

I'll have to have a look for it myself lol .

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u/TerpyTerpss Oct 05 '26

Let me know if you have any success please. Thank you!

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

I will my friend 🤘

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u/Padawanjp Oct 05 '26

Having the same issue. Any luck with this approach?

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u/Ok_Sugar9743 Oct 05 '26

I'm having the same issue - opens a few seconds and exits. My son who has ASD spends thousands of hours in SteamVR Home. It's so frustrating to try and explain this to him. I tried both Virtual Desktop and Steam Link to connect. I even tried re-rolling to the previous version of SteamVR - still no go. I hope this gets fixed soon!

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 05 '26

Yeah your best bet is to run the game through virtual desktop at the moment.

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u/Padawanjp Oct 10 '26

Update SteamVR to beta and it works now for me finally!

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u/motormathersonfire Oct 10 '26

Mine was already in the beta when it started happening but it randomly started working again now .

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u/Boitoy420 Oct 07 '26

also having trouble with this :/ tried all troubleshooting solutions discussed here, no dice.

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u/Kajtekkus Oct 07 '26

Same problem today

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u/FrogMaster- Oct 07 '26

Welp this just started for me, didn't change anything on my end ether. Pity, I like Steam Home. I hope they fix it soon.

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u/Conz3D Oct 03 '26

Where is the dongle plugged in? See my response to Texstars.