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RealSupremium edited this page Jul 29, 2026 · 8 revisions

PlayStation VR2 Toolkit supports Linux using a new piece of software we have developed, called Ignition, which lets you run supported Windows SteamVR drivers on Linux, using Wine/Proton.

Caution

You should have some basic knowledge of how to use Linux. If you don't, you'll probably have a bad time trying to get everything to work. Using your favorite search engine or asking others for help is a good idea if you are stuck.

Wired Linux VR is also not guaranteed to be a good experience depending on your GPU and which architecture you use and what settings your distro applies. CachyOS or any immutable distro is not recommended, but it is possible if you know what you're doing.

SteamVR on Linux also has some issues and missing features. You have been warned.

Missing or restricted features

The following features are not available or have limitations on Ignition:

  • SteamVR Room View (unsupported or unstable)
  • Official Sony PSVR2 Apps
  • Controller poll rate (can cause an unstable Bluetooth connection)

All other features of PSVR2TK or the PSVR2 driver should be functional.

Setting up Ignition

Prerequisites

You will need the following prerequisites installed:

Ignition currently is NOT in any package manager, so you must download the release from GitHub here.

Getting the prerequisites ready

  1. First, install Steam, where you will then get SteamVR, PlayStation VR2 App, and Proton Experimental.
  2. Get jq from your package manager of choice. This is for the Ignition setup shell script to create the config for you.
  3. For user apps like SteamVR, Ignition, PSVR2Updater, vr2jb, etc. to work, you will need to install xr-hardware. You should be able to find it in your package manager of choice.
  4. Follow the instructions for installing SteamVRLinuxFixes on the main GitHub page. SteamVRLinuxFixes is required to fix what Valve hasn't bothered fixing.

Updating your PSVR2

Before using your PSVR2 on Linux, you will need to make sure you have a PC compatible firmware. v5.00 or greater will work. If not, see instructions on upgrading here. You will use PSVR2Updater to perform the upgrade, as the official app does not launch on Linux.

Using Ignition

  1. First, extract the contents of Ignition-Linux-Windows.zip to a folder like /opt/ignition/ or ~/ignition. The Ignition folder MUST be accessible through the Steam Linux Runtime container.
  2. Assuming your Steam folder is at ~/.steam/steam/ (if it is not, try finding it), run ./install_ignition.sh "$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/PlayStation VR2 App/SteamVR_Plug-In/" while in the folder you extracted Ignition to.
  3. Next, navigate to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/PlayStation VR2 App/SteamVR_Plug-In/bin/linux64 and run install_driver.sh in the folder.
    • Double check that ~/.config/openvr/openvrpaths.vrpath has something like "/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/PlayStation VR2 App/SteamVR_Plug-In" in the external_drivers list. If openvrpaths.vrpath does not exist, you may need to run SteamVR once before using install_driver.sh.
  4. Now, you will install the experimental PSVR2Toolkit release
    • Renaming driver_playstation_vr2.dll to driver_playstation_vr2_orig.dll
    • Then extracting contents of PSVR2TK-win64-Ignition.zip into ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/PlayStation VR2 App/SteamVR_Plug-In/bin/win64
  5. You should be able to launch SteamVR and see the PSVR2 headset and Sense controller icons in green.
    • If not, check the logs in ~/.steam/steam/logs, specifically vrcompositor.txt and vrserver.txt for any errors.

Configuring SteamVR for the best experience

In ~/.steam/steam/config/steamvr.vrsettings, you should edit it to add "enableLinuxVulkanAsync" : true and "useFacetRenderer" : true to the steamvr section. Big Valve does not want you to know this.

Your steamvr section should look like this:

   "steamvr" : {
      "enableHomeApp" : false,
      "enableLinuxVulkanAsync" : true,
      "haveStartedTutorialForNativeChaperoneDriver" : true,
      "lastVersionNotice" : "2.16.7",
      "overlayRenderQuality_2" : 3,
      "preferredRefreshRate" : 120,
      "showAdvancedSettings" : true,
      "showMirrorView" : false,
      "showPerfGraph" : true,
      "supersampleManualOverride" : true,
      "useFacetRenderer" : true
   }

Do not forget to put commas after each line except for the last one, or else the config will be wiped due to syntax errors.

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