Black screen on launch

I am trying to do some war thunder vr for the first time, and every time i open war thunder in steamvr, it puts me at a black screen where it does nothing but play the menu music. i cant find anyone else thats had this problem from what i can see, so i can only assume its something im doing wrong.

Im using the quest 2 to play.

Game works ok when you launch without VR?
Have you tried to update drivers to latest available for your GPU/OS?

the game works just fine when i launch it normally, and im not sure about my drivers. probably wouldnt be a bad idea to check them

upon updating my GPU drivers, the game still opens to a black screen when i try to launch in vr mode. could it be an issue with my system specs? im using a higher gen i7, 32gb RAM, and a GTX 1660