TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a “Frame Verified” status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
Related: has anyone actually tried Alyx on Linux recently? I set up ALVR with my facebook quest the other month and every game except Alyx was fine. Half-assed googling makes it sound like that was a known issue but there are also probably like five people on the planet trying Alyx in Proton.
Why would you run it in Proton? It’s a native game.
i just played yesterday, alyx is one of the few that run without issues.
oh except, controller plugged in usb prevents it from starting (same as vr home)
why run it in proton?
Completely stops it launching? Most recently I could get to the main menu but would crash on loading a save, previously I could get to early quarantine zone before crashing on a level transition when I gave up. But if it’s that simple I’ll have to try unplugging my flight sim gear.
Same. I played it with steam link on my Pico 4 and it runs great. And it’s a phenomenal vr game.
I played the native Linux version of Alyx on my Valve Index last week, worked fine.
I played it with ALVR on Linux with a meta quest 2 from start to finish like a year ago. ran like a champion (ok, it froze like every 3 hours, now that I think of it).