r/ValveIndex

any opinions?

i haave been trying for the past couple hours re installing drivers restarting my pc and resetiing and updating my devices but nothing seems to work and i have looked on the help page on the official steam page but that didnt seem to help at all does anyone know how to fix this

Is VR Optician out of Germany still the standard for prescription inserts for the Valve Index?

I bought an index kit about 3 weeks ago, and I just can't get it to work. I think it's some software problem, but I can't figure it out. It struggles to connect to my pc. I've bought a new headset, tether, and a Trident cable, a USB 3.0PCIe hub, trying to get it to work to no avail. It's not giving the same problem in the same way; it's slightly different each time. I've redownloaded Windows 11 twice, Steam itself twice, redownloaded GPU drivers from studio to game-ready versions a couple of times, and it doesn't help. I've stopped Windows from turning off USBs in Device Manager, have Nvidia settings at max performance, Windows settings for max performance, updated bluetooth drivers for my cpu, updated to my latest bios for my motherboard, and used software to see where the basestations can see using my Quest, but it just doesn't track the headset for some reason, and when it magically does, it stutters like crazy (tracking going in/out). The knuckles and the basestations from the kit are working perfectly; it's just the headset struggling. I've even reseated my GPU to see if that would even help. The headset doesn't even connect anymore; it just goes from solid green to blue, then flashing red on both headsets. The base station lights are all green and don't have any syncing or conflict issues. The base stations don't connect to SteamVR unless I turn one of the controllers on. I don't have the techy know-how to fix this problem; I'm at my wits' end, and need some help.

PC: Intel i7-11700, HP RTX 3060 OEM LHR, some bronze 700-watt PSU, Aorus Z590 Elite AX, 32gigs corsair vengence ddr4 3200, no idea what my storage is, but I have an NVMe, a SATA SSD, and a hard drive

VR: 2 Valve index headsets, 2 Tridents, 2 of the AC power bricks for the index, 1 pair of knuckles, 3 2.0 base stations (2 Valve, 1 Vive), Quest 2, 3 3.0 Vive trackers

So all of a sudden my right index controller just stops charging. I also found out that its breaking every usb hub i try and charge it with making everything disconnect. no light no nothing. i have tried so many diffrent things like 5 diffrent cables. pluging in diffrent outlets and diffrent ports in my pc. not even getting the normal little warm when charging. is there a known fix for this??

Hi, making a post here since I cannot find ANYTHING that gives me one definitive answer on this.

So about ~6 months ago I got new base stations, specifically the 1.0’s, I have next to never used them in that timeframe, they were barely moved and haven’t suffered any damage to my knowledge, but heres the error I’ve been encountering:

Every time I plug them in it shows a blue light, I can hear the motor, everything seems good right? Wrong. For some reason when they’re placed down on any flat surface, the blue light turns green and 9 red lights appear, I can still hear the motor running so I know thats not an issue, but I am unsure since SteamVR won’t recognize them (At least when I was on Windows, haven’t tested them on Pop!_OS yet) alongside the only answer I’ve found being that the infrareds are broken/failing, which shouldn’t be possible since I had this exact same error with my second 1.0, and my previous ones.

Can anyone offer some help on this? It’d be greatly appreciated.

I upfront apologize if this has been asked before, and if this post is not done well as its the second post I have ever made.

How would it be attempting to turn the speakers/headphones on the index into regular headphones I could wear at my PC. I have always has some paranoia with keeping both sides of my headphones on while I'm at the house alone as well not wanting to wake anyone while they are asleep but wanting to have full quality. I very much enjoy the quality of the drivers and would love to have those as my main headphones instead of my close backed DT770s

Or will it be more worth while to find some good open back headphones for my situation?

So basically today i turned on my valve index in a while and everything was okay when one second it turned off i turned it on but it continued to turn off so i searched up and no help and now everytime i turn it on it turns off in like 5 seconds and i tried everything resetting the controller unpairing it then pairing it again and nothing works please help me

For about a week my left controller has been becoming worse and worse about releasing the grip. Of course valves warranty has expired and I am *not* buying a full replacement. How should I go about trying to fix the grip problem?