VorpX very briefly worked, then stopped

[Kazerad]

Heyo! I just bought VorpX today after running into problems getting my old flame Vireio working on Windows 10. For reference, I am using an Oculus Rift with Runtime version 8.0.0.

The VorpX desktop viewer worked fine. And, after scrubbing out the Vireio DLLs, I managed to get The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion running with positional tracking and everything. I restarted the game with VorpX off to change some settings, and when I restarted it again with VorpX on, it would no longer show up on my HMD – only on my monitor.

VR-made software and the desktop viewer continue to work fine, but I have not been able to get any VorpX-supported games working since that one brief test with Oblivion. In all cases, they simply play on my main monitor as usual. If I put the Vireio DLLs back in the folders, VorpX at least complains about it, implying it’s trying to start, but I haven’t had any luck making it actually happen again.

Any suggestions? I have already tried every possible combination of “run as administrator”, as well as closing as many other programs as possible, restarting the Rift/VorpX software, restarting the computer, and unplugging/replugging the HMD itself – all the normal magic, basically.

[Kazerad]

Wait, crap, my bad! There was one normal magic I forgot to try: my firewall software! It turns out it was blocking VorpX from modifying other programs. Everything works fine now.

Sorry for the false alarm! I guess this can be a reference for anyone else who runs into this problem.

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