Vive Pro 2 Brief PC Freeze on SteamVR Exit

[Cloudwalker]

Everytime I shut down the vive console or SteamVR my pc freezes for about a minute, and my video card emits a very loud coil whine. Eventually the PC becomes responsive again and SteamVR shows the "i just crashed!" window. Found several posts on this on reddit, but nobody has shown any solution yet.

[TheLK]

Hi, same problem here and never found a real fix if I try to close from the SteamVR console ... but ... since I click on the VR button from Steam interface (at the top right) to 'disable/turn off' VR, it's work like a charm, very rare cases of crash since this way to do...

[Gyro]

Hello,

I had the same problem, and I found the solution.

In my case, I just have to leave the overlays or other software using VR, before cutting with the live console. (here in my case it was mostly FPSVR, which disrupted the VR shutdown.)

Since then, I no longer have any weird freezes when my VR stops.
(Vive pro 2 in wireless).

Regards,
Gyroquake

[feelie75]

fwiw, I found if I simply unplug the display port cable from the GPU, it crashes immediately, ending the hard freeze. Not ideal but better than waiting forever wondering how well-cooked your hardware is getting, heh. Would be nice to have a fix by now! :)

[C.T.]

It is suggested to close the vive console first, and let it ends the SteamVR process. The other way around may cause deadlock for few sec. 
 

[DualEdge]

2 hours ago, C.T. said:

It is suggested to close the vive console first, and let it ends the SteamVR process. The other way around may cause deadlock for few sec. 
 

I used to use the Steam method of opening and closing SteamVR; however, as you mentioned I found that each time I would have it hang on me for a long period of time when closing, and worse, it wouldn't save my settings so I found myself having to set up my room each and every time I wanted to use my headset (very annoying).  If I open Vive Console first, it no longer asks me to set up my room; however, when I go to close it, I do still occasionally have the system hang on me and then it eventually pops an error saying that SteamVR encountered a critical error and asks if I want to restart it or quit.  So, I would say that while the Vive Console method for closing is far more reliable than doing it through Steam, it's still not perfect.  Just my $0.02.