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Turns out that it was in fact a resolution issue. When I fired up the games tonight without VorpX running, they were rendering at 1024×768. They were configured for 1920×1080 before my VorpX 8 testing yesterday, so I can only assume that the Rift Init crash error I expirienced (referenced in another thread) caused the games to revert for some reason.
Either way, it appears to be working now. My apologies for having wasted your time.
Was finally able to get the cinema mode to work as intended. Not certain what eventually fixed it, but some combination of de-overclocking my primary monitor, physically disconnecting (not just disabling in display properties) my secondary monitor, shutting off nearly all background applications finally got it to stop giving my the “Rift Init” issue.
Thanks for the suggestion, Karlor. Unfortunately, I was already using the 5.0.1 runtime when I tried this morning.
Tried a few other tweaks and troubleshooting things to no avail. Hopefully something will click into place when I get more time to futz with it tonight.
I can’t say with certainty that this is your problem, but the DK2 (unlike the DK1) seems to have a lot of issues with judder. Personally, I was unable to get anything aside from the “Desktop Demo” to function without nausea-inducing judder. Turns out that my primary monitor being set to 60hz was causing it. In nearly every demo or application, if I overclock my monitor to 75hz, then the judder vanishes.
I understand that this is hardly an ideal work-around as not all monitors can support such a refresh rate, but it’s certainly solved my issues. Good luck.
Great release Ralf. Remarkable how far you got this out the door. Have run into a couple bugs, but nothing heavy. I saw that the new release was available on the RoadToVR site, and it mentions the addition of 15 new officially supported titles. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to locate a list of all the newly supported games. Is there a changelog somewhere that lists them, or an otherwise complete list? Apologies if I’ve missed this somewhere. Thanks again, for all the hard work, mate.
My apologies. While I’ve never discovered why the auto-update did not function, I simply re-ran the original installer and it replaced my existing copy with 0.6.4.
As always, thanks Ralf for all the hard work.
Work and family life has caught up to me and I’ve not been gaming much since about October. Had some time to play with the Rift tonight and saw the November blog post about an update. The blog mentions version 0.6.4, yet when I run VorpX, the version reported is 0.6.1.
It’s my understanding that VorpX updates should be automatic, but after leaving the VorpX control running for an extended period, I’m seeing no update notification or change in the version number displayed when in-game. Is there something that might be interfering with the update mechanism?
Thanks for any insight.
I get this same issue in Bioshock Infinite but nothing else. Recalibrating and fiddling with sensitivity has so far yielded no results.
No idea what would cause that off the cuff. Any chance it’s picking up another input device like a controller or joystick you could disable? Also try disabling gamepads in the game options.
Since so many were curious (me among them), is said “screw it” and just bought the game to test. Unfortunately, it’s looking incompatible at this time. Here’s what I discovered in my brief testing.
-If you launch the game through Steam with VorpX running, it launches and runs as expected without engaging VorpX.
-If you navigate to the Steam Library folder where “Gone Home” is installed, there are two executables, “GoneHome.exe” and “GoneHome32.exe”.
-If you create a Desktop Icon via VorpX for the “GoneHome32.exe” file, then the game will load, but you will only see a completely black screen instead of the menu, but you can hear the game’s audio.
-If you enter the game during this black menu screen (enter key resumes your saved game), if will load the game (verified by the shifting sounds of rain when you move), but you still will have no visuals.
@Ralf & @Muteboy: Feel free to move this thread to the other forum since this has become more of a troubleshoots/bug-report thread that a Hint & Tip thread. Thanks.
Same here. I have a pretty substantial gaming backlog, but if I knew I could Rift this one, I’d buy it right now. The temptation to do so, just to see how VorpX handles it is pretty strong.
I believe that somewhere (either in the online help or in the troubleshooting thread)m that Ralf mentions you may need to reassign the mouse wheel or middle mouse button if the game in question uses these keys.
Once you’ve installed the application, launch it by running “VorpX Control” from your start menu (or desktop). You’ll know it is running when you see the VorpX icon in your Windows task tray.
After it is running, simply turn on your Oculus Rift and launch a compatible game. Anything on the supported games list should fire up and function through VorpX automatically. Many unsupported games will work as well.
If you launch a game that does not automatically render through VorpX, simply right-click on the icon in the system tray and choose “Create Desktop Shortcut”. This will open a windows open dialog. Navigate to the installation folder of the game you are trying to run and select it’s EXE file.” Then launch the game via the newly created desktop shortcut.
Unfortunately some game simply will not work for various technical reasons.
Good luck.
Yes, sir. I am the same person. I just woke, up and it looks like the code did arrive this time approximately 8 hours ago. It went directly to my inbox. I’ve been keeping an eye on the spam folder and haven’t seen anything. Badservo.com is a google-apps domain, so my hosting platform is GMail. Very strange that the two previous attempts were lost in the ether without so much as a bounceback.
I’m a Systems Administrator by trade, so I certainly understand that under heavy load (as you’ve no doubt been experiencing) a mail transfer agent can do some wonky stuff occasionally.
Regardless of the underlying issue, thanks for your dedication in getting the keys out to me and others. I was hesitant to ask in the forums. I didn’t want to be “that guy” complaining, but in retrospect, I suppose it’s a good thing I mentioned it.