So far the game I have thought worked really great, with a good 3D effect and acceptable framerate and usability:
Skyrim
Morrowind
STALKER games
Farcry 3
Fallout 4
Ive found that I am most comfortable in the virtual cinema, with the screen as close as possible, with headtracking enabled. It still feels like Im in VR, and I can always look down and check the HUD easily. I usually completely forget that I am in the cinema, and it works great for keyboard and mouse use. All of my experience is basically directed at this type of use. Here are some other games I have tried that Ive enjoyed, but have some minor drawbacks from my testing:
Outlast: This game works great, but I find that Geometry mode creates weird shadow issues, and on other 3D settings there are some minor graphical issues. Its not bad, and totally playable. on z3D modes, it seems like there could be a little more depth with the 3D slider.
Oblivion: Slow on G3D, Z3D modes dont seem to give quite enough depth that I would like. Game still looks great, and is very playable.
Portal 2: Something just does not look right in this game. Im not sure what it is, but it looked very very wrong when I tried it. I might try it again, but the first experience really put me off.
I may have forgotten some games that I have tried. So far I have been very impressed with VorpX!
I recently downloaded and used GZ3Doom to play Doom 2 and Heretic with the Oculus Rift and I must say the experience was next to flawless out of the box. I love what vorpx has done and is trying to do to get modern games working in VR, but I have to ask what it is that GZ3Doom has been able to accomplish that vorpx cannot. I don’t mean to be critical, and I understand that Doom is much less complex to get running than, say, GTA V. I just marvel at how such an old game looks perfect in VR without any tweaking (seriously, I don’t even know if you can tweak GZ3Doom), yet with all my fumbling in GTA V, Outlast, and Amnesia I can’t get those games to ever look right (translation: immersive).
Anyway, keep up the good work, I know we’ll get there eventually.
And adding, the same thing seems to happen on every game I try. Fallout 4 now, and also outlast
You’re right zarlor, you can go ahead and launch games anyway despite the message in Oculus Home. Successfully been rifting on Mirrors Edge and Outlast. However Eldar Scrolls Online currently doesn’t work for whatever reason. Brings up message “Sorry we’re having trouble loading ESO.exe”
Had those glasses and a supported monitor for stereo 3D. It worked on every game in my steam library where there was two slightly different views of the same screen alternating. How’d they do it? I don’t think every last one of those games went back and made support for their game to work this way. Some of the same games in my library I’d wish could have 3D on vorpx (I’m a big fan of your work ralf). I preordered a vive because the tech is better and after the 20 plus games, the other 80-100 due to drop the rest of 2016, the endless co-op building of things and worlds of lovely modbox , I’d like to experience soma, and outlast etc in vr 3D.
hello, i have a problem with vorpx, all games don’t work on vorpx. i have oculus rift dk2 and vorpx last version, but when I start the game that crashes immediately and head tracking is on for one second, then turns off. but windows desktop viewer works perfectly. I have directx 11 video card nvidia geforce 850m. the game crashed with skyrim, left for Dead2 and outlast because I’ve only tried these games
I have the same issue, only that the desktop viewer also crashes. If you find out a solution, please post it here!
hello, i have a problem with vorpx, all games don’t work on vorpx. i have oculus rift dk2 and vorpx last version, but when I start the game that crashes immediately and head tracking is on for one second, then turns off. but windows desktop viewer works perfectly. I have directx 11 video card nvidia geforce 850m. the game crashed with skyrim, left for Dead2 and outlast because I’ve only tried these games
I fixed my issue. Instead of using the shortcut I used the exe in the main directory and unchecked (run as admin) in the properties of the exe.
Outlast looks GREAT!!! Omg! But I can’t really play long because I wear glasses and ouch, it hurts my face. 😪 I get nauseous easy to. but I screamed a few times and it was way more intense. G3D looked amazing! No issues. Has to set the IPD like 5 less than my actual IPD though. and changed the screen zoom out a bunch.
I wonder why crysis 3 wasn’t working 😒
I just bought VorpX so I could play Outlast, but when I try and start outlast it just starts on the PC, not on the DK2. I got Crysis 3 working, (It looked like crap, all zoomed in made me cross eyes on G3D. But anyway, I thought I would try Outlast. Please help! I Have the latest Oculus run-time and the newest vorpx because I just bought it.
I think I have a similar issue, does it crash at startup? I bought it some weeks ago, and I still can’t get it to work, everyday I am trying something new, If I am lucky i will get it working before February.
Create a shortcut on desktop for Outlast executable through VorpX’s options, should find that by right clicking the VorpX system tray icon. That way u’ll have a better chance of VorpX hooking into your version of the game.
Hey guys I can’t seem to get Outlast working! I have the latest oculus runtime. The game only plays on PC not the DK2. Please help! And I don’t have it through steam so I know thats not my issue.
I just bought VorpX so I could play Outlast, but when I try and start outlast it just starts on the PC, not on the DK2. I got Crysis 3 working, (It looked like crap, all zoomed in made me cross eyes on G3D. But anyway, I thought I would try Outlast. Please help! I Have the latest Oculus run-time and the newest vorpx because I just bought it.
Hi guys, I’ve just recently purchased vortx so excuse me but I am a bit of a noob with it :-)
The first problem i have is I’ve tried dead space 2-3 and outlast and each game is zoomed in too much so i can hardly see anything. It’s a little better once the game starts, but in the menus I cant see hardly anything. When i look around the screen follows my field of view therefore i can’t look left and right to see the menus properly. Is their any way to fix this? I managed to set screen size to the smallest, 1024 x 768 (or something like that) which is slightly better but still…..can’t see much.
Second thing is when i start the games, it shows up on my oculus rift but not on my monitor. I have my PC hooked up to my 55″ TV so when mates come round we take it in turns with the Oculus but it sucks if nobody else can see what’s going on on the screen. Can i enable the screen as well as the oculus? Thanks
I have the same problem. When I start Outlast, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Bioshock and any game it crashes inmediatly.
Please help.
I played a bit of the first level of Outlast, messed with the in-game Vorpx settings a bit to get the best possible image, decided for Geometry 3D reconstruction and letterbox 2 fov, exited the game to grab some food and now Outlast freezes after displaying the intro images, just before loading the main menu.
I restored the Vorpx profile to default values from Troubleshooting menu, reinstalled the game, deleted the Outlast profile folder, nothing works, freezes every time. The game works on monitor if I exit Vorpx and other games work just fine in VR using Vorpx. Any ideas on what can be done ?
I’m using Vorpx 0.9.1.0, Oculus runtime 0.8.0.0, Windows 10 64bit, Outlast is launched from Steam.