Basic Trouble Shooting – Please Read This First!

[Ralf]

If you can’t get a game to work, here are a few things to try:

Is vorpX Control running?

The first thing you should check is whether vorpX Control is running. If it does, it displays a tray icon in your taskbar.

Possible conflicts with other programs

If vorpX can’t attach to a supported game, interfering background programs are the most likely reason. The best way to troubleshoot this is disabling/uninstalling programs running in the background. Typical candidates are:

• Virus scanners. If in doubt, switch to Windows Defender (good proection, yet less invasive than some others).
• CPU/GPU utilities, e.g. fpsVR, MSI Afterburner, ASUS GPU Tweak, GeForce Experience
• Game/desktop recording/streaming apps, e.g. Fraps, Dxtory, OBS Studio, Splashtop, AnyDesk, TeamViewer
• Messengers/chat programs, e.g. Skype, Mumble, Evolve, Discord
• Game client overlays, e.g. Steam/Uplay/Origin/GOG Galaxy game overlays
• Trainers, game hacks and mod/script injectors
• Generally everything that can show notifications in games

Another potential fix for hooking issues is creating vorpX desktop shortcuts. Doesn’t work well though with most games that require a client like Steam/UPlay/Origin etc., so their use is rather limited. To create a vorpX desktop shortcut right click the vorpX tray icon, choose “Create Desktop Shortcut”, then navigate to the games .EXE and double click it.

Trying another DirectX version (DX9-DX11)

If a game supports multiple versions of DirectX, try all of them. Usually all should work to some degree, in some cases there are hints displayed on startup which one works better. If one completely refuses to work for you, maybe you have better luck with another one.

Multiple monitors

If you have more than one monitor attached to your PC, remove all additional monitors temporarily and see whether that makes a difference.

SLI/Crossfire

If you have a dual GPU system with SLI/Crossfire, disable this function. It might or might not work, but is currently completely untested and thus not supported.

Notebook graphics (e.g. nVidia Optimus)

Gaming notebooks typically have two GPUs. A slower one built into the CPU for dispalying the desktop and normal applications and a distinct GPU for games and other graphics heavy programs. If you encounter issues with such a notebook, try to disable the CPU graphics if possible (e.g. in the BIOS).

Intel GPUs

If you use an Intel graphics chip, you’re on your own, at least for now. System requirements for vorpX include nVidia/ATI graphics. Judging from feedback, many things seem to work with Intel, but this is completely untested. Also for some things there are distinctive nVidia/ATI rendering paths in vorpX, those won’t work at all on Intel.

[ShibbyPanda72]

Since the latest update my start up config is all messed up and will put strange patterns over options etc. It will show briefly when put mouse over it. i’m sure is a fix?

[Megablaster]

Ralf is there a trick to getting Vorpx to save properly?! Every time I create a profile that requires special HudVP settings and I click save, it doesn’t *save. I restart the game and the profile loads but it doesn’t keep my settings. What am I doing wrong?!

[moblackny]

I have had vopx for about 10 days now and have yet been able to get it too work. I have contacted support and have followed all of the suggestions they gave but no luck. seeing if anyone here can help. the errors I get is no oculus headset found I have the meta quest 3. Also getting the failed to attach exe. I have check to make sure nothing that can interfere with it is running. these are the steps I am doing. please let me know if they are not correct as I am new to this.
1. opening vorpx config selecting oculus as device
2. going to local profiles and selecting the profile for the game I am trying to use and clicking apply and close
3. powering on the meta quest 3 which is connected via link cable to pc meta quest link software loads and says connected (although I have read that I should close the meta quest software because vorpx will detect without it so I have tried both ways)
4. Then clicking on the shortcut on my desktop for the game I want to use. (although I have read that I shouldn’t and I should start the game through vorpx but have yet to see a option to do so)

I get attaching said exe then attaching exe failed then the menu option comes up where I can choose to install helper or preferred helper which I have tried both then I get no oculus headset found.

this is a 6 week old powerhouse windows 11 pro computer with more then enough hardware to run any game at max settings $2000+ 48GB ram RTX4060 TI MSI b760 4TB Samsung 990 pro with heatsink

I do have dual monitors which I just read this morning that this can be a possible issue so I have yet to try disabling one of them about to leave for work so don’t have time to try this. if anyone can assist it would be greatly appreciated. Games I have tried are Dirt 3, all GRID games, WRC Generation and Call of duty modern warfare.

Also just checking when they say to make sure there are no conflicting software running they just mean to stop there processes in task manager not uninstall them. I know that is a no brainer but I have spent over 30hr in 10 days trying to get this to work so I want to make sure I’m not missing anything. I consider myself to be a above average computer technician and troubleshooter but this has me stumped to say the least.
Please HELP someone

[manobroda]

Hello everyone.

I would just like to inform the VorpX team and those interested that there is an incompatibility between Vridge or SteamVR and VorpX.
For native VR games, I use Vridge with my Quest2 via Wi-Fi, and it works very well, e.g. Project Wingman.
For other games, I used VorpX with SteamVR (e.g. Take on Helicopters), and it worked very well. But I stopped using it for a while.
I recently decided to use VorpX to play Ace of Combat 7, but after updating VorpX, I noticed the following problem with Vridge or SteamVR: when I entered games like Project Wingman or Star Wars Squadrons, I could no longer move from the spot. Although I could see everything around me, there was no movement in the other axes, keeping my head fixed in one point.

I tried to disable VorpX for these games in the VorpX settings itself, but without success. I even closed all VorpX processes on Windows, but the problem persisted.
To continue playing native VR games, I had to uninstall VorpX, which solved the problem.
But I would like to keep it installed on my PC, so that I can play non-native VR games.

Has anyone had a similar problem? Thanks everyone.

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