{"id":262664,"date":"2026-06-03T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:05:09","slug":"steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamVR 2.16 arrives with a number of Linux fixes for VR fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/\">SteamVR 2.16 arrives with a number of Linux fixes for VR fans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 03:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valve just released SteamVR 2.16, the latest release bundling up lots of bug fixes and improvements to make the VR experience on PC a lot smoother.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully there&#8217;s a bunch of general Linux fixes that came with this update too along with VRLink improvements on Linux too, so perhaps the experience won&#8217;t be quite so rough. If you&#8217;re using SteamVR on Linux, do leave a comment to let us know how you&#8217;re getting on with this update. I&#8217;m hoping with the upcoming Steam Frame, which uses SteamOS, that we&#8217;ll see more Linux improvements over time too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s everything that&#8217;s changed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SteamVR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed issue causing shimmering on the edges of the display on some headsets.<\/li>\n<li>Dashboard: Resolved some memory leaks on AMD hardware.<\/li>\n<li>Dashboard: Improved compatibility on some older (legacy) AMD hardware.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue with older AMD cards or drivers that caused a memory leak.<\/li>\n<li>Streaming: Advanced settings UX now respects global toggle.<\/li>\n<li>Improved version compatibility handshake when streaming.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed HTC Vive users not being able to activate the laser mouse by clicking the HMD button after the dashboard is visible.<\/li>\n<li>Add protection from hangs in vrserver on exit.<\/li>\n<li>Speculative fix for Varjo headsets not having a display.<\/li>\n<li>Fix regression in Chaperone behavior that was impacting some 3rd party OpenVR plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue where SteamVR Home would drop frames on some systems.<\/li>\n<li>Fix a bug where the SteamVR dashboard would not start, particularly when using hardware that creates many devices at startup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Linux:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix a crash in SteamVR when a game crashes.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed texture leaks when mirror window was visible.<\/li>\n<li>Improved interop with gamescope overlay forwarding.<\/li>\n<li>The vrcompositor process is always a child of vrserver now (instead of whatever process first uses the compositor).<\/li>\n<li>Improved GPU synchronization implementation on Linux (now uses timeline semaphores).<\/li>\n<li>Stop invoking `pidof` internally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VRLink:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Linux, pick the best GPU for VR and streaming rather than&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteamVR 2.16 arrives with a number of Linux fixes for VR fans https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steamvr-2-16-arrives-with-a-number-of-linux-fixes-for-vr-fans\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/SteamVR.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-262664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262667,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262664\/revisions\/262667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}