ALVR: Cant find appimage

Description

I cannot find the AppImage for ALVR. The wiki says that if you are on Arch Linux and dont have the flatpak version of Steam, you need to use the AppImage, however i cant find it.

General Troubleshooting

I carefully followed the instructions in the README and successfully completed the setup wizard
I read the ALVR Wikis here and here

Environment

Hardware

Note: for Linux, an upload to the hw-probe database is preferred: hw-probe -all -upload

CPU: N/A

GPU: N/A

GPU Driver Version: N/A

Audio: N/A

Installation

ALVR Version: N/A

ALVR Settings File: N/A

SteamVR Version: N/A

Install Type: N/A

Packaged (exe, deb, rpm, etc)
Portable (zip)
Source

OS Name and Version (winver on Windows or grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release on most Linux distributions):

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 3 months ago
Comments: 20 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I mean, you could just use an older version of ALVR with the appimage, and aren’t the libraries bundled now?

I believe this would be wiped with every SteamOS update, since SteamOS is immutable. (Correct me if I’m wrong)

It is in fact immutable, but you can revert that by running sudo steamos-readonly disable, but do be careful if you choose that route, as you can easily break SteamOS if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Honestly, if you’re trying to use ALVR on the Steam Deck, it’s not going to be a fun experience anyways. The GPU is not really capable of driving what in some cases is a 4K+ screen.

It may not run well to most people’s standards, but it would be better than my current PC, which is really poor when it comes to VR; like to the point that most would consider it unplayable. Unless they bring back the appimage, I’m probably gonna stick with an old version (like you suggested), cuz yea using the other methods sound like a nightmare on the Steam Deck lol

AvenIsHere on Apr 12, 2024