Compatibility Report

Possibly related?

Installing drivers from https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver (396.54.09) with the latest vulkan extensions (as of this time .09 is not available from the PPA also happens with the PPA version) leads to Beat Saber and Orbus VR to crash on startup with an access violation.
Skyrim VR just gets stuck on a black screen.
A non-VR game like Witcher 3 loaded and played as normal (with NVIDIA Hair etc. working).

Uninstalling 396.54.09 and going back to nvidia-driver-396, while still running Proton 3.16-1, and they all run fine again. (but without device support for the new extensions)

Went and tested Google Earth VR and works fine on my system as well.

Same (only they crash with both 396.54.09 and 396.54.05 for me). Only Google Earth VR works, and has way better performance with .09 than before. Other games crash - including whitelisted games like Superhot.

Uninstalling 396.54.09 and going back to nvidia-driver-396, while still running Proton 3.16-1, and they all run fine again.

its probably nothing nvidia related because it also happens with my rx580

Can you please retest this with Proton 3.16-2, released last night? You can use the "Verify Local Files" option on the Proton 3.16 tool to ensure it is up to date.

Everything seems to work on my end.
Beat Saber, Orbus VR and Skyrim VR all launch and run. (hands in Orbus appear (transform/new vulkan extensions), so that's working too)

I can confirm that this issue is resolved in Proton 3.16-2 tested the mentioned games and they now work as before. good work!

vrchat works as well

Some games such as Racket: NX, Pavlov, Operation Warcade VR and Crisis VRigade that had the issue with missing objects in earlier versions (proton 3.7-8 and earlier) seems to have been fixed with 3.16-2.

However, several games that would start with 3.7-8 but were missing objects now won't start at all, but instead crash with an access violation. Examples are Job Simulator and Bounce.

SuperHot VR and and Soundstage which worked perfectly before (no missing objects and great performance) also crash at startup.

Can others confirm SUPERHOT VR not working at all on 3.16?

Tested SUPERHOT VR with 3.16-2 and 3.16-3
Crashed on both versions.
Here are the gists:
3.16-2: https://gist.github.com/magzu/ac6ba90c417d253fae3679c6889797be

3.16-3: https://gist.github.com/magzu/ca9b3d52f2f4c0df1732491fda04fe5a

It crashes with a unity styled crash message popping up that are saying the logfiles were stored somewhere. I can provide those logs as well if they are of interest.

@frostworx Thanks for testing. In this case, it is most likely a DXVK regression.

Reverting doitsujin/dxvk@a3bf90f5a3fe050ffae353f80bc5608c7c9a1244 in DXVK should fix the issue.

Thank you @doitsujin , that fixes it. I have built Proton with this reverted and now Job Simulator works perfectly.

This commit was included in Proton 3.16-5. Please retest to confirm it's fixed.

Both Superhot VR and Job Simulator starts works flawlessly (as far as I can tell from brief tests) without any workarounds with 3.16-5.
Thanks!

I am having a similar issue to this. When I open up beatsaber on the desktop it crashes. But if I open it from the headset it works fine.

Also it seems that steam is unable to tell that beatsaber crashed, cause I am still listed as playing beatsaber and have the option to exit. Trying to exit the game through the steam ui, is ineffective and fails quietly. If I kill the process called steam child monitor ( or something like that) I can then start the game from the headset.