SteamVR — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.16.4 | 2026-04-29 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fix regression in Chaperone behavior that was impacting some 3rd party OpenVR pluginsFixed an issue with older AMD cards or drivers that caused a memory leak.Fixed an issue where SteamVR Home would drop frames on some systems.Fix |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.16.3 | 2026-04-13 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Add protection from hangs in vrserver on exit.Speculative fix for Varjo headsets not having a display.VRLink:On Linux, pick the best GPU for VR and streaming rather than using first enumerated device. In particular, the NVIDIA op |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.16.2 | 2026-04-09 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR: Fixed streaming certain OpenXR games on Quest (including Pavlov and Into The Radius 2) Fixed additional dashboard related bugs |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.16.1 | 2026-04-07 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR: Fixed issue causing shimmering on the edges of the display on some headsets Dashboard: Resolved some memory leaks on AMD hardware Dashboard: Improved compatibility on some older (legacy) AMD hardware Streaming: Advanced settings |
| Introducing SteamVR 2.15 | 2026-03-26 | This release includes a variety of bug fixes and quality of life improvements for SteamVR. We continue to focus on OpenXR as our preferred API for new games and applications. SteamVR’s official OpenXR subforum is here and we’d love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for new features. SteamVR:Overlays now render translucent grey backsides, unless docked to a controller.Third-party overlay apps won’t have translucent backsides until recompiled with the next OpenVR SDK.Fix cases where loading drivers would fail for paths containing non-ASCII characters.Fix motion smoothing not working with latest Nvidia drivers.Fix for VRAM leak on so |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.6 | 2026-03-19 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fixed a crash on startup when encountering an error from the Meta runtime. |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.5 | 2026-03-12 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR: Change how our Oculus driver handles initialization failure. This affects people who use Oculus headsets with the Oculus Desktop app, as well as people who stream to their HMDs (all types, not only Quest) with Virtual Desktop St |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.4 | 2026-02-20 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fix for VRAM leak on some AMD systems.Fixed an issue where the audio thread for Steam Link VR was using too much CPU OpenXR:Fix for OpenXR quad layers updating at reduced frame rate under certain conditions.Fix for OpenXR apps wh |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.3 | 2026-01-24 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fixed showing translucent back sides on non-dashboard overlays.That feature will be available for apps built with future OpenVR SDK releases, at which point the developer can still toggle it off.Fixed translucent back sides not f |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.2 | 2026-01-21 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Overlays now render translucent grey backsides, unless docked to a controller.Fixed missing resize handle for desktop and window overlays in the dashboard.Fix cases where loading drivers would fail for paths containing non-ASCII |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.15.1 | 2026-01-12 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. Steam Link: Fix Pico headsets under-reporting recommended render resolution (increased to 2160x2160 from 1832x1920). Improvements to slider groupings in settings section. Reduce stutters when adjusting encoded video size.OpenXR: Fix API |
| SteamVR Hotfix 2.14.5 | 2025-12-24 | SteamVR has been updated with the following changes. SteamVR:Fix the desktop overlay cursor not being visible when moving the cursor directly with a mouse. Help & Information: The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a SteamVR System Report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.14.5 | 2025-12-22 | This build is a candidate for a full release. If you encounter issues, please report them in the forum so they can be fixed before this build goes out to everyone.If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fix the desktop overlay cursor not being visible when moving the cursor directly with a mouse. |
| SteamVR Hotfix 2.14.4 | 2025-12-09 | SteamVR has been updated with the following changes. SteamVR:Fix a bug where directly launching an OpenXR title from Steam (without VR already running) could have unexpected behavior if the game creates multiple XR sessions with a time delay in between. For example, Blade & Sorcery.Stop connecting to Steam for "utility" apps like MeganeX connector. This exception was broken a few versions ago, which causes SteamVR to appear as "running" to Steam even though it's in the background.Fix certain UX bugs that could cause developer settings to show as black.Disabled the gamepad driver by default to avoid a crash caused by certain accessory software |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.14.4 | 2025-12-05 | This build is a candidate for a full release. If you encounter issues, please report them in the forum so they can be fixed before this build goes out to everyone.If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fix a bug where directly launching an OpenXR title from Steam (without VR already running) could have unexpected behavior if the game creates multiple XR |
| Introducing SteamVR 2.14 | 2025-11-24 | This release includes a variety of bug fixes and quality of life improvements for SteamVR. We continue to focus on OpenXR as our preferred API for new games and applications. SteamVR’s official OpenXR subforum is here and we’d love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for new features. SteamVR:Improve startup speed when no HMD is present.Fix an issue that could cause "Port 27062 in use" (can also manifest as error 309) when no HMD is present.Fix an issue that could result in error 302 or error 101, especially in unusual startup configurations.Changed Binding UI to allow saving bindings that don't bind all required actions (with confi |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.14.3 | 2025-11-21 | This build is a candidate for a full release. If you encounter issues, please report them in the forum so they can be fixed before this build goes out to everyone.If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fixed chaperone showing when using Steam Link or wired headsets that draw their own boundaries. |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.14.2 | 2025-11-13 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Fixed a memory leak in vrcompositor. |
| SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.14.1 | 2025-11-13 | If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues. The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here. Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here. SteamVR:Improve startup speed when no HMD is present.Fix an issue that could cause "Port 27062 in use" (can also manifest as error 309) when no HMD is present.Fix an issue that could result in error 302 or error 101, especially in unusua |
| Introducing SteamVR 2.13 | 2025-11-11 | This release includes a variety of bug fixes and quality of life improvements for SteamVR. We continue to focus on OpenXR as our preferred API for new games and applications. SteamVR’s official OpenXR subforum is here and we’d love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for new features. SteamVR: Fix a crash that could occur when the AMD GPU driver was installed but no AMD GPU was present. Fixed compatibility mode bindings showing as custom bindings when they are remapped default bindings. Automatically prefer installing the Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality when running on a Windows version too new to support the Windows driver. |