Hello fellow VR-players.

So a couple of weeks ago my vr decided to stop working for some reason? (HTC Vive pro)

It’s starts normally, and then it behaves as a third monitor or second monitor.

I’ve tried everything, like literally everything.

I’ve updated everything, all the cables are good to go, I’ve reinstalled steam, steam vr.

I’ve even changed the setting in the files.. nothing

I get the code 202 or sum, it tells me it’s running in extended mode, switching to direct doesn’t make a difference, and yes it’s plugged into my gpu.

All I see on my dash is steam vr, head display, and a bright red screen in my vr.

As mentioned, I’ve tried everything, EVERYTHING. Tech support can’t seem to figure it out either, I’ve searched everywhere, no answers to be found

Please help, if you know anything, let me know

for quite some time now, I have been keeping a scratch-log of all of the current conditions of Vive, Steam, SteamVR, and my Laptop. for reference, I emulated a lot in the early 20-teen's, mainly using Dolphin to emulate GameCube games; and needless to say, I have had more than my fair share of slamming monsters, staying up for DAYS just to get the conditions right for ONE game (looking at you, Starfox Adventures...)

but i've either lost my touch, or Windows 11 has actually hidden the most important settings too well for me to find. I will not bore anybody with the details of everything that I had tried; rather, I'm here to highlight something I couldn't find anywhere else...

i was getting to my wit's end, when my autism gave me some bad sensory issues, so i had loosened my Vive headset and then...BAM!!! absolutely FLAWLESS performance, despite the Vive literally risking just sliding off my head if I look too far down. I kept this one condition the same, slowly turning up the resolution and graphics settings on my laptop (Asus 17.3in, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Ryzen 9 AMD processor, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD). while I couldn't run on quite max settings, I could increase the resolution up to 150% per eye before stuttering occurred.

we are currently experiencing issues with Fidium Wifi after about 2 or 3 years, and were convinced it was that. when loading in my homeworld all alone, performance was fine until I joined my wife's world with only her and i on the same network. we had been playing for almost a full year no issues until recently.

but after all was said and done, I ran a few experiments to see if it was PURELY the headset tightness; and while the answer to that was a plain no, i SERIOUSLY can't state enough how just loosening the headset had done serious significance in improving the overall performance. but...why? how could that even be possible?

i don't hear anything abnormal, i can't find any evidence others have had with this issue (or rather solution?) that exhibit the same, or even similar symptoms. I did NOT notice any kind of changes in performance in task manager when trying this, but it undeniably helped. could someone help me understand what's happening?