Steamvr only detects leap motion under certain cricumstances

[DeweyTheCowboy]

If I start steamvr, with with my dk2 off, the only devices that get lit up are the controllers, and they are sensing my hands (putting hands in front of leap and the light goes from flashing to solid, indicating it sees my hand). now if i start steamvr with the hmd on it only detects the dk2 and the camera. if i start steam vr with it off, then turning it on and clickng restart steamvr, it detects just the hmd and camera. I've tried on the last 2 versions of this driver, as far as i can tell, i have visual c++ installed and in my vrconfig file i have multipledrivers set to true and have tried it set to false as well (no difference in behaviour). Please help.