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I’d love to join an unofficial (‘inofficial’ is a misspelling, officially ;)) Discord server to chat to some fellow vorpX enthusiasts.
Looking forward to it!
I am down for this as well; not going to pretend its something Id use daily but I have a decent understanding of the program and would be down for helping + learning from others; theres still a few features i dont fully understand out of lack of tech savvy speak and stuff, so could be a good way to share info back and forth for any of us
If you mean use it to play Telltale’s other games – Possibly, I would test it myself if I owned them.
To make a new profile, just select the profile you wanna make (Like Walking dead season 1) in Vorpx Menu.
Follow these steps:
Open Vorpx Menu.
Youll need to, on the left side, go to “Local Profiles” – Scroll down to the profile you want to use to ‘make a new profile’.
Select “Create a new profile based on this one”
Give it a name and make sure both check boxes are UNCHECKED, no check marks.Now the new “profile” you just made should be on the list of games in your Vorpx Local Profiles menu. Go to it, its name should be in Blue.
When you select the profile, on the right side you will see “add” – Select that and then go to the game’s .exe you want to use it for.
So if you were trying to do it for Walking Dead : Season 3; just go to your Steamapps – Common – Find walking dead season 3 folder and select the .exe in that folder and then, when you launch the game, Vorpx will be ‘waiting’ for that .exe to launch and attach to it, thus launching your game in VR (hopefully, if it works, i dont own these games or id test it myself)
If you have any questions, please let me know, I do NOT work for Vorpx, but i am willing to lend a hand if its something i can help with/understand
it’s not that simple sadly.
every games are different and it not humanly possible to have all games working with vorpx, not even talking about G3D mode which is another huge work per game.thats all fine and good, Steph. But get Doom Eternal working.
lol jk. :P
Just wanted to say Thank You, Ralf. The work you put into this is beyond what I could have ever hoped for when I bought my key back during DK2 days (pretty sure it was a decision between you and Tridef and literally best call in gaming platform I ever made)
I havent been a total lifesucker tho – I did get 2 friends to buy Vorpx when they got their headsets, so im working for ya, bud :P
Seriously though – thank you so much for making this not just a WORTHWHILE product – but literally the best gaming complimentary software i have ever owned. You utterly have changed certain games for me (i got to play dark souls 3 and sekiro in 1st person 3d!!!! You did that!)
So thank you so much for your work and time and honestly.. I wouldnt blame you for slowing down tomorrow; at the same time, I will take every update with a smile on my face, a thumbs up to you, sir – and, I will continue to try to convince friends of the quality of your product.
Thanks again! Hope you and your family are well with everything going on
Thanks for response, Ralf!
I actually set all my profiles to start/menu for exactly what youre talking about – sprinting and crouching in games.
So i was hoping there was a way to hold in the start button to bring up the Vorpx menu (since ill be accessing that less) than the actual game start button.
didnt know if there was an option to make the start button short press go to game pause screen; start button long press go to vorpx in game menu.
i only ask cause ive been running into more games where just tapping it is still pulling up the game’s menu or map and stuff.
thanks again for your time, hope you have a great weekend!
Thanks, Ralf! As always, on top of the stuff that i need help with. Thank you :) Take care of yourself and dont work too hard… but keep working :P lmao jk :)
thanks for your product, love it
I tried doing command line arguments that were recommended online and had no luck – and no option to turn off vulkan in game settings and couldnt find anything in the .ini.
Surge 2 will be lost to us then – silly developers making games vulkan only :\
Sekiro is great in vorpx, looks good, play in immersive screen mode or cinema mode for some good 3d.
but if you wanna be nuts, there is a first person mod.. and it works in vorpx. Use steam in offline mode, but heres link to nexusmods… and yes, it is awesome parrying in first person. Theres also a mod to give Sekiro some invincibility frames for your dodges which might help you get thru group fights, ill paste it below too
first person;
https://www.nexusmods.com/sekiro/mods/474Only pick one of these two:
invincibility frames;
https://www.nexusmods.com/sekiro/mods/417bloodborne style combat;
https://www.nexusmods.com/sekiro/mods/411
That one rallies back health like bloodborne which might be useful for first person too.Wanted to add – upon playing more, you may want to pass on the Game patch and just get the VR version – when crouching im getting alot of texture popin/popout with the “Patch”; Its not gamebreaking but is happening, i think its cause of the patch updating some textures, so if you wanna avoid that, i think just go with the dx update instructions and play with default stuff. Sorry didnt notice problem until playing some more; but ya, might wanna skip the textures stuff in the unofficial patch there
Agreed, would love to have the site back, if you gotta toss ads all over the thing, i dont care.. just not popups please lol. That was a great tool and I really appreciated having it available. I dont know how sites work these days lol, make us do the ‘prove youre human thing’, whatever it takes, lol.
Thanks for your work, either way though. Your stuff is awesome!
Im not an employee for Vorpx but let me try to answer your questions, to my understanding of the program.
It will not transfer the input of the touch controller as a mouse pointer in 3d space as if you were ‘aiming’ with your hand – all the ‘aiming’ is done with your head, in first person and third person games. You will, for most games, pretty much just be getting the core game as it would launch on your desktop, just in some form of 3d
Theres ‘3 types’ of 3d the program does for games it ‘works with’;
Geometry 3d, the most convincing and hardware taxing option that is supported… I can barely run most games in Geo 3d with my card so im not the person to ask about it, I can say, when it works right, Geo 3d is pretty much as ‘native’ as a VR game. I played Resident Evil 7 with Geometry 3d and was able to get full 6dof (6 degrees of freedom; able to lean forward, duck head, look around corner with head like a real VR game, without using analog stick. Analog still could still be used for looking up and down, but when the game is supported this well, you basically just need the stick to ‘look’ left and right, as you would in any standard game)
More widely supported by games on the unofficial list as often dont do Geo3d, they tend to more likely support only Z-Adaptive and Z-normal 3d 3d, which; to my understanding, are just ‘tricks’ on the eye to simulate 3d but not having to render the scene twice as Geometry 3d does.
So the game will control of the same, use your controller if you want; you can get it to work with the touch as a “gamepad”, but its not necessary, but if you want to ‘aim’ around with your Touch controller, it unfortunately doesnt do that (could be interesting, but that would require an entire base level code rewrite i think, to make the gun indepedent of the camera in these old games… there are a few full conversion mods like Doom 3 BFG and I think theres one for Half Life 1 and like Doom 1, 2, Hexen that are full conversion with moving the controller to ‘aim’ like in a normal VR game – Vorpx does not do this, it displays your game in 3d and controls are same as they were.
Now as far as other ‘supported programs’ – Nothing really ‘supported’ i can think of, but it doesnt conflict with things like Mods or ReShade, those things all still work, I played Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 with First Person Cheatengine mods and got to have a legit Dark Souls in 1st person dungeon crawling experience in full VR, was very cool. Currently doing a playthru of Resident Evil 2 with the First Person mod (this one the head bobs a little bit, you wanna turn it off in options but it still does it… but i the mod menu in game, you like can expand FoV so the bobbing is very very tiny)
So – yeah, any mods you wanna use, whatever goes along those lines, you will have no trouble with Vorpx. The only issue you might see is Vorpx might try to ‘hook’ these programs and ‘launch’ them in VR (this will just bring up an error message on your pc saying Vorpx couldnt ‘attach’ to the program’, with the option to “add to exclude list” and Vorpx wont try to ‘attach’ to that program again in the future, at most youll have to ALT+Control+DEL and shut down that program, add it to ‘exclude’ list in error message and youre good to go)
So things to expect – Vorpx is NOT rendering a 360 degree room around you, like i think a real VR game does, it is at the end of the day just taking whats on the monitor and running it thru some magical technology that makes it have a cool 3d VR effect haha – but expect more limited ‘field of views’ than a full VR game, get used to having a little extra black at the top and bottom of your field of view, thats the only real “DOWNSIDE” I can see to the program if youre looking for a true VR experience, just limited Field of Views in some cases and in some cases rectified even more via modding, like Red Dead Redemption 2’s mod over in the Game Hints and Settings forum
But for first person games, you set them to “Full VR Mode”; theres also “Cinema” and “immersive screen mode”, but, i think “full vr mode” is why youre 90% likely interested in the product (Not to denounce cinema and immersive screen mode, they are fantastic for 3rd person games)
But “Full VR mode” basically ties your head to your ‘mouse look’ button (some games you will see Vorpx flipping back and forth between button prompts from PC to controller settings), Vorpx turns your ‘head’ into the camera you would regularly control on the right stick and if the game supports full Geo 3d – you should get pretty close to a regular VR experience, with whatever mods/filters you wanna add to it all working. It is not miracle software though, like if your have a CV1 like I do – alot of black levels in these games were not built for VR at all and I get alot of washed out colors when in dark areas, not Vorpx’s fault, just how they did CV1 screen… so dont be surprised if you run into that).
So once youre in game, you can mess with Vorpx settings; there will be menus in the headset once youre ‘in game’ you can access by clicking in left control stick on Xbox controller or on your Keyboard under “Del”; I believe. This button is your new friend. There is an option to change it, in the same menu, by going to the tab with Xbox Controller options and setting it from “Press Sticks” to “Press Start/Back” buttons, i always switch to this. But the menu youre at now is Vorpx’s in game menu (via left stick click or DEL button on keyboard) and you can play with how zoomed in the image is by Vorpx, how sharp/bright it is, what “3d mode” you want (Geometry, Zadapter, Znormal like i mentioned earlier). If the game supports DirectVR, use that option and it should scan your field of view and motion so you can have full 3d, but, it depends game to game. This menu can be fiddled with alot and will allow you to access “Full VR Mode” (Best attempt to make it into a VR experience for first person games), “Immersive Screen Mode” and “cinema mode” as well.
So “Full VR Mode” Is probably what youre after in most cases, wanting to play an FPS or large scale rpg and have “depth” and 3d to the environment is usually Vorpx running ideally. Use DirectVR scan if its an option and see how much it supports 3d, whether its got Geometry 3d, Zadaptive/Znormal 3d. The game may support an adjustment of the HUD to bring things into view easily, like health bars. Not all games support this, youll have to just check in the Vorpx menu (Left stick click or DEL button again) and see if you can scale the HUD.
If you cant scale the HUD, thats where right stick click comes in. This will also be your friend. Right stick click will drag the game back to a ‘theater’ view and allow you to check all things like health bars, menu settings, etc, without the ‘warping’ of the graphics that youre getting in Full VR Mode in 3d. This will be a commonly used button, its best to watch in game cutscenes this way as well. This option can also be change in the Vorpx Menu (DEL or Left stick click) to go to menu/back buttons by going to the Xbox tab and change “Vorpx buttons” from “Stick click” to “Menu/Back” buttons. If you TAP ‘back button’ now, itll bring up Vorpx Menu, if you hold it in, youll get the game option for the “back button” is.
So last thing, 3rd person games. Totally work and are really cool. Was playing Darksiders 3 recently and it was rad, looking down at Fury like shes thru a window, not thru a TV screen and just thrashing baddies up in 3rd person, if Vorpx supports the game well and you get your settings right, “Immersive Screen Mode” and “cinema mode” are primarily how youll be playing those games, and they have full depth and everything. Also a little trick if youre trying to play a first person game that has too much ‘camera bob’ and you cant turn it off or ‘mod it off’, dont play in full VR, play in Immersive Screen, set it to be close with Vorpx in game menu (DEL button again) and it will not wrap around you and lower the chance of naseau if a first person games camera was bugging you.
But yes, the program pretty much ‘supports’ whatever mod you wanna throw at your game, its doing nothing beyond taking the image and putting it into your headset and making it have depth/3d… your games are yours, mod em how you want, have cheatengine running, whatever works for you, if the game has a profile on Vorpx is the only real issue youll run into.
But ya, you could mod the hell out of New Vegas then play in Vorpx :P lol
just for the record, also, for unsupported like 2d games – i use it just as a giant screen for 2d games like salt and sanctuary or more recently the messenger. you can make a profile for it or use big picture mode. Kick the games super sampling up so the pixels still look sharp, even if its an unsupported 2d indie game you can use big picture as a giant customizable screen, other ways of doing that, but desktop viewer is pretty rad
If you guys are looking for something kinda bioware style from jade empire days, I have been playing Greedfall in Vorpx with a profile someone posted, isnt G3d… but ill give you the breakdown.
Its not as massive as like Dragon Age origins is but its got a pretty big game world and lore and looks nice in immersive screen mode and has a unique backstory, but, it has its quirks, not a gigantic game like Witcher 3 but something you might get some time out of.