PSVR 2 Black Screen when Minimizing or Closing VR Game

[BenS]

Hey everyone. I’m new to PC VR gaming and vorpX. With the PSVR2 I’m having an issue that I’m hoping you guys can help me with as I can’t find anything about it on reddit or google.

When I minimise or close a game my screen goes black (not the headset but the actual PC screen goes black.) There was nothing I could do to get around this so I’d shut my PC manually using the tower’s power button. After this happened several times I randomly thought about unplugging and re-plugging the HDMI cable and that ended up restoring the PC screen without having to resort to powering down.

This problem has happened with 3 titles so far. Dishonored, Battlefield 4, and Skyrim VR (was playing skyrim VR without vorpX).

Any clue what’s going on here? I can’t keep unplugging and replugging the HDMI cable, its silly.

I built this pc specifically for VR gaming and would love to get this working properly.

I’d appreciate any help. Cheers!

RTX 4080 Super
Ryzen 5 7600
32GB RAM
Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II-CSM motherboard

[BenS]

I’ve figured out that the loss of source input on minimising or closing a game is only happening with vorpX and not with regular VR games. I didn’t realise that vorpX was modifying Skyrim VR. Once I added the SkyrimVR.exe to the exclusion list in vorpX’s configuration I was able to minimze and exit Skyrim VR without issue.

Now that I’ve isolated this issue to vorpX specifically, can someone please help me figure this out? I don’t know where to start in terms of modifying settings to solve this.

[dellrifter22]

Just a guess, but maybe the Virtual Monitor is misbehaving with PSVR2? When VM is in use it can turn off your monitor display.

You could try disabling Virtual Monitor in the vorpX config app, or right click on the vorpX icon in system tray – if you can see your desktop inside your headset.

Maybe your headset is rebooting itself whenever you exit an app, and it is engaging the Virtual Monitor automatically. There are a few settings for automatic/manual activation in the vorpX config app.

[BenS]

Thanks for the info Dell. I did a full factory reset from the vorpX configurator and I’m seeing less of the loss of input situation but it’s very inconsistent and difficult to replicate.

I’ve gone through the configurator options and the tray icon and can’t seem find any mention of a virtual monitor though.

[BenS]

I switched to 24.1 beta and seems like every problem I had is solved, at least for now. I couldn’t find the virtual monitor you mentioned in the default vorpX version because it seems like it’s only in the beta version. I have virtual monitor turned off though.

I wish someone told me about trying the beta branch earlier!!! I’ve probably spent about 16 hours over the last few days trying to get vorpX to work. Not a pleasant experience.

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