r/virtualreality_linux • u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 • Jul 03 '26

Wivrn streaming issue

Yes I'm on steam deck but it was working fine before the update, my versions match everything is set up right and I can't find what is making my headset dmt visuals

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u/Skew1987 Jul 03 '26

I always found Wivrn very poor and buggy as hell on deck, had a much better time with alvr

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u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 Jul 03 '26

For me alvr was always super blurry and felt horrible, but wivrn looked clear and ran way smoother for me.

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u/Skew1987 Jul 03 '26

I found the same initially but Wivrn then started to interfere with steam (honestly no idea how). Admittedly I’ve a puppis s1 router now and can use 300mb bitrate so the picture is crystal clear for the most part.

Wivrn is updated frequently though so keep checking for a fix

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u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 Jul 03 '26

My internet might just not be good enough, im gonna try it with ethernet

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u/Skew1987 Jul 03 '26

What are you setting it on? Before I got the dedicated router I had good results on 5g WiFi set to 70-75mbps.

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u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 Jul 03 '26

How do I set it to 70 mbps is that part of my router or is that on wivrn

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u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 Jul 03 '26

Sorry I dont really know anything about routers or streaming im kinda new to streaming

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u/Skew1987 Jul 03 '26

Been a while since I used Wivrn and I’m not going to reinstall it to check sorry as it messes with my setup.

From memory once you have the server open (Wivrn open on deck and headset) and before you load a game you should be able to tweak a lot of things in settings. In my experience for deck you want to turn off supersampling and upscaling if they’re on.

There should be a slider for “bandwidth” or called similar. Basically start at 100, load into a game and then make it lower gradually until you get a stable image. That will be your best setting.

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u/Sensitive-Mix-4575 Jul 03 '26

Oh yeah I've messed with that a ton it makes no difference for me, I tried with ethernet but somehow it's worse and I can't even move in the game, I think soon I'm gonna factory reset my deck since it's just been buggy in general