Okay, most of the time it will fix it.Īt this point it seems worth asking, so what is the VR Compositor? If you read Valve’s documentation, it says: Sometimes this works, SOMETIMES THIS DOESN’T. SteamVR will restart each time you do that. The fix for it is to go to SteamVR Settings and Disable Direct Mode and then Re-enable Direct Mode. It seems to be a common issue – if you search online you will find several forums where many lost people are also asking the same question “HOW DOES I COMPOSITOR?”Īpparently this error is caused either by too many display devices (monitors, etc) connected or the Intel graphics card somehow taking precedence over the Nvidia GTX1060 in this laptop. Every time we restarted the entire system, on the first run it always returns “Shared IPC Compositor Connect Failed (306)” and “Compositor is not available (400)” even when everything is already set to use High Performance graphics (set to default to the better GPU in the laptop). One recurring issue was relating to the VR Compositor.
#Steamvr compositor not available drivers#
(Note that the base station generates some vibration so you definitely want to pile on the duct tape for safety)ĭIY Vive Lighthouse Mounting – NOT PRETTY BUT IT WORKSĪfter spending countless boring hours installing new drivers and updates for Windows and the graphics card, we were able to run SteamVR intermittently. We took the selfie stick apart and mounted the lighthouse on the flat stick which gave us an adjustable mobile rig that we could stick to the wall with a combination of 3M Command tabs and duct tape.
After cracking our brains on what to do, we found two cheap $5 selfie sticks with 1/4″ camera screw mounts that also fit the Vive Lighthouses’s screw base. If you are renting, then you probably don’t want to do anything so drastic as to drill a permanent mount into the wall. Even with the diagram its difficult to put it all back in after you uncoil everything… After moving the equipment from one room to another (whilst trying to decide which was the room to use), I found myself spending time detangling cables over and over again.Ĭable explosion after I took it out. The Vive came in a reasonably compact box, but once I took out the items from their neatly packed state, the cables somehow seemed to gain volume and a wilful desire to take over the entire room. And even if you think you’ve cleared everything (and even when you see the Chaperone boundaries) you’ll probably still violently thwack something with the controllers or stub your toes on the furniture you stowed away in the corner at some point. But let’s be realistic: not everyone is going to have this luxury of floor space in their home or rental flat. Technically speaking, all you need to clear is 60m2 (3x4x5) metres. In our case, having just moved back to Singapore, our boxes haven’t arrived from London just yet, so we simply moved all the furniture out of the way. Here are some notes on the process… Setting up the Play Areaįirst, you’ll need to clear the play area.
I had a “VR Ready” laptop (Gigabyte Aero 15) but yet I must confess that the setup for the Vive is not as easy or straightforward as it seems. These last few weeks Meshminds gave me the opportunity to work with the HTC Vive and I’ve decided to build a small VR experience using Unreal Engine.
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