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[Top-SecreT]

Hi, today i purchased vorpx driver and tried to get Fallout 3 running. My problem is that i dont see the menu to start or load a game. Menu is out of view. What can i do?

[Trancer Spacey]

I tried it with vorpX yesterday. Unfortunately the game crahses, when it’s set to global illumination/dx11. But dx9 works, unfortunately not in g3d, it works only z-modes but looks good though.

On my actual pc with gtx660 and a Quad 2 Core it runs not supersmooth, but good enough. Haven’t tried it with a decreased FOV. The normal fov-setting is much to near.

@Ralf: any tip for running this game in dx11? Besides this I installed the Mod “Stalker Complete 2013”, works with dx9.

And at least: the game itself is even without vorpX very good, if you like fallout or Metro. And for 10 bucks, it should be no question to buy it. Peanuts! Have fun! ;-)

[Trancer Spacey]

Hi there!

I found some usefull .ini-tweaks for the FOV and tested them. It work really good.

I found them originally here:

Its written in the text but in short: to change the games FOV permanently put fDefaultWorldFOV=120 at the END of the [Display] section, it helps, you dont have to set FOV everytime in the console.

Also very helpful, to increase the FOV of the weapons and the Pipboy in front of you. I think they are much to near in front of my view. I changed it to:

fPipboy1stPersonFOV=80.0
fDefault1stPersonFOV=110.0000

The other interface-settings which are listed below I havn’t tested so far, but also the settings described above makes the experienve much more comfortable. The benefit is that you don’t have to use vorpX’ force fov-command in the menue. When you do it with this ini-tweaks it seems you have no visual glitches.

[Trancer Spacey]

By the way: all Bethesda-games are quite good to be played with Oculus Rift. They deliver a very nice vr-experience. Not to fast gameplay and very focused on exploring. I hope Ralf will all of them get to work properly without graphic issues and with positional tracking.

What woks really good and out of the box besides Skyrim is Fallout 3. I had a problem, which caused crashing, but it seems one of the mods/patches I posted in this forum yesterday helped.

Skyrim is at the moment vorpX best supported game overall. Oblivion looks very good in 3d, but vorpX support should be improved to enhance conveniant gameplay, especially this fov-issue is at least anoying.

[Trancer Spacey]

Played more than 1.5 hours without crashing, so it seems one of the patches did it. I guess it was a memory issue because Fallout 3 is not Win7 optimized. Absolutely phantastic vr-experience now! Wasteland is heaven! :-)

[Trancer Spacey]

Perhaps a solution:

today I installed some useful (i hope!) mods. Now the freezing of the game seems not to happen again. (But this is just a first impression. I had’nt the time to test the game longer than ten minutes per session, but the crashing/freezing didn’t happen again.) So I guess, one of the following mods helped, to stabilize the game. If you have the same problems like me, perhaps the following links will help:

(complete links seems to be deleted, so go to http://www.nexusmods.com/ and paste the following adresses)

– Purge cell buffers: /fallout3/mods/7817/?

– Games for Windows live disabler: /fallout3/mods/1086/?

– 3GB Enabler (4GB for 64 bit): /fallout3/mods/6510/?

– UPDATED Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch: /fallout3/mods/19122/?

[Trancer Spacey]

The only thing with Bioshock: you have to be sure it’s set to 1080p and reset any settings I did in Nvidia-Controllpanel. (to force AA, for example). In the first case the game won’t start and in the second, the game can freeze in g3d-mode. (at least in BS 1)

Also Skyrim and Oblivion are really enjoyable in vr, especially when you have a powerfull card which delivers smooth framerates. Fallout 3 too, but unfortunately this game crashes after a few minutes. I hope this is a bug which can be solved easily by Ralf. I can’t wait to play Fallout longer than 3 to 10 minutes. ;-)

[Ralf]

The Geometry 3D performance hit is about the same as with all stereo drivers (usually 50%-60%, in some cases even more). Some things a S3D driver has to do are hurting peformance a lot , especially in DX9 games. There is no real way away around that, except something like asynchronous timewarp. Whether that will be possible in vorpX isn’t clear yet though.

Skyrim is mostly CPU-bound in Geometry 3D, a faster card won’t help much. In Fallout you should be able to get 75fps in interiors and ~60fps outside with a GTX 970.

That is why vorpX has the Z-Buffer 3D mode, which is about twice as fast as Geometry 3D, although not as natural in regard to Stereo 3D, of course.

[Trancer Spacey]

Hi,

at the moment I have a gtx660 in my pc, so my question is especially to vorpX-users with 970/980 or 780ti cards: what framerates do you get typically with these cards in taxing games like Oblivion, Skyrim or Fallout?

Do this games run smooth with vorpX in geometry-mode? For example in Oblivion my framerates are often sinking under a value of 50, sometimes 40 in outside-regions (geometry). In Dungeons I sometimes get 75FPS but this depends on what wall I look. ;-) So it’s not really a smooth, good experience and I hope a new GTX will change this a bit. But for this older games I found no benachmarks with this brand new cards, of course not in combination with vorpX. So I think it’s time to start a thread to finally enlighten the vr-community. ;-)

[Trancer Spacey]

I don’t need new games, I want the classics running good and smooth. Fallout 3 is crashing a few minutes after launching, Fallout NV doesn’t start anyway and better positional tracking in Skyrim and the named games would be really great for the moment. Perfect to reduce the waiting time for the first non-beta release of VorpX. :-)

[Trancer Spacey]

Fallout 3 works out of the box, runs smooth and fine, but unfortunately after a few minutes (sometimes immediately, sometimes after five or ten minutes) the game crashes.

Does anyone have a tipp or does this happen, because VorpX is still beta and this is a common bug? I’m sure the reason for the crash is VorpX, because when I run the game “normal” without vr, the game does not crash.

[bdiepeveen]

I’m having similair issue’s but only with a few games,
These games work for me :
Fallout New Vegas
FarCry 3 & Blood Dragon
Mirrors Edge(but not steam version)
Garry’s Mod
DayZ
Stalker Call of Pripyat(but shows a blackscreen can hear sounds tough)
Battlefield 3
Crysis 3
F.E.A.R – wich launches with vorpx but runs on my normal screen not the rift even tough the rift is primary display.

Games that do not seem to trigger vorpx:
Bioshock Infinite – the game launches but is not running via vorpx
F.E.A.R 2 – Crashes at startup but briefly triggers vorpx.

[Trancer Spacey]

Thank you, Ralf. Resetting the game profile helped!

It’s cool that the FOV-issue can be solved, because the self resetting of the FOV also happens, when people talk to you and you switch back after answering or returning from ingame-menues.

But I have another question: So 3D-rendering is working now, but I had to switch of all shadwos, because in geometry-mode they are flickering or better said, there are stereoskopic rendering problems.

Do you think this problem can be solved for geometry-mode? I also had to turn of HDR-lighting, because there are stereoskopic issues too with the bloom effect. This is sad, because 3D in Oblivion looks really impressive and shadows and better lighting would be much appreciated. ;-)

Rendering in Z-Mode does solve this problems, but then the FOV seems a bit to narrow, even when it’s set to 120.

And a last question: Do you think it’s possible to enhance Oblivion and Fallout 3 with positional tracking? This really helps a lot for immersion and preventing simulator sickness. Would be very, very cool when this could be done.

[reanor]

here is the fix for Fallout 3 – I have 8 cores in CPU so this lowers it to two and it doesn’t crash any more:

Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3
Find the line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add another line after it and insert:

iNumHWThreads=2

This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze.

*If the game still crashes write this iNumHWThreads=1

EnJoY!!!

[bcozier]

reanor wrote:

Fallout 3 – Game of the Year edition. Can you please add support to that, it keeps crashing on me while in DK2. Thanks!

I remember I used to get crashing on that game often too without vorpx. It was on an AMD CPU with AMD GPU. I now have intel i5 and nvidia GPU and I tried it with vorpx and it works fine for me. If you are overclocking anything turn off all overclocking and try that first, otherise the game just might be favoring either intel cpu or nvidia gpu. I don’t think there’s much ralph can do because I can play it without issues and the 3D is sxcellent btw.