How to prevent Oculus Home from running with Steam VR games

[dburne]

Hey gang,

 

So as we Rift users know, for a Steam VR only game , Oculus Home will also launch automatically when putting the headset on and then we launch the game with Steam VR, resulting in having the overhead of both Oculus Home and Steam VR running.

 

There is a way to prevent Oculus Home from running for when we choose to run our Steam VR games. Credit to this thread over on the Oculus Forums, where it has been tried and tested.

https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/53317/how-to-prevent-home-from-starting-when-playing-steam-games

 

Basically just set the OculusClient.exe to " Run as Administrator". Right click the OculusClient.exe, choose properties, and put a checkmark in the " run this program as administrator" box and apply.

 

I did a quick check, and now putting on the headset the Oculus Home Client does not start automatically. Launch a Steam VR game and only Steam VR starts and runs. Have not had a chance to do any real comparisons on any possible performance difference without having Oculus Home running, but I would have to think with it being a little leaner without it running it certainly can not hurt and reduces some overhead.

 

When Oculus Home is needed, just launch Oculus Home manually and click yes when getting the prompt to run as administrator.

Now us Rift users we can run a Steam VR only game without having the extra layer of Oculus Home running in the background.

Edited June 6, 2017 by dburne

[Brewnix]

Thanks! This is awesome. It always bugged me having two programs running at once when i didn't need the other.

[f4l0]

 

https://forums.oculu...am-games#latest

 

 

The link is not working...

 

Edit: This is the link https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/53317/how-to-prevent-home-from-starting-when-playing-steam-games#latest

Edited June 6, 2017 by f4l0