If you are experiencing crashes or low performance with Metro Awakening on Steam VR.
We recommend to disable any overlay Apps or Layers from Steam VR as well as any third-party VR software.
To do so:
- Launch Steam VR
- Access the Steam VR settings
- Ensure that SteamVR is set as your default OpenXR runtime rather than Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), Oculus, or Viveport. This can boost performance and prevent crashes
- Disable the overlay apps and OpenXR API Layers
- Additionally, setting your Spectator Screen to 'Off' can also help maintain smooth gameplay.
- Lastly if you have any third-party programs which could be interfering with your VR setup (eg: VR Toolkit, OpenXR Toolkit, ReShade etc) , we recommend to temporarily disable them