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Spamming the forum with the same issue all over the place won’t get you better help, makes any discussion re the issue impossible to follow and ultimately the forum unusable. Hence your other posts have been removed to keep everything related to your issue in the same place.
There have been zero other reports like yours recently, the original post here is more than 9 years old… Obviously this has to be an issue on your end or somewhere in between the server and you. Doubly so considering that you installed vorpX without hitches several times in the past.
Please double and triple check everything that I suggested. As much as I’d like to add something entirely different to these suggestions, unfortunately there just isn’t anything else to suggest than that. Thanks again for your understanding.
As said in your original post, there is neither an issue on the server side nor with the web setup program, which hasn’t changed in years. As you can probaly imagine there would be a lot more reports like yours every day othgerwise.
All that can be recommended has been recommended already. Again in short for your convenience, just in case you missed something:
1. Check that no firewall setting prevents the download
2. Check that no antivirus program blocks the download
3. Try to use a mobile phone as hotspot, just in case the issue originates at your ISP
4. Since you already downloaded vorpX sucessfully earlier: revert any changes you made to your PC since the last time you downloaded vorpX.Nothing else to recommend besides these things. Thanks for your understanding.
Please follow these steps:
1. Download and install the Meta Quest (Oculus) PC-App from the link below.
2. Make sure Oculus is selected in the vorpX config app as your headset type.
3. If you want to use the wired Link, connect the Quest via USB
4. Launch the Meta Quest Link PC App.
5. Launch Quest Link (wired) or AirLink (Wi-Fi) in your Quest.Afterwards your Quest is connected to the Meta Quest Link app and vorpX can send images to it via the Meta Quest PC runtime.
Caveat: AirLink requires a fast Wifi 5/6 connection with low latency. If you are unsure about that, better use wired Link via USB.
The exclude list is the way to go here.
You can however easily pause vorpX entirely from its tray icon’s right click menu. if you can’t see the tray icon, click the little arrow to the left of your taskbar clock.
Might be some annoying AV program’s fault. if you happen to use anything else than Windows’ built in Defender, get rid of it.
Thanks!
One additional hint: After years of (on and off) searching for some mysterious vorpX bug that only materializes in the original Bioshock 2 and a handful of other 32bit DX9 games, I’m pretty sure I recently found the actual issue while I did some general memory optimizations: too much memory used with vorpX.
For the GOG (not Steam unfortunately) version that can be fixed by making the game ‘large address aware’, which raises the 2GB RAM limit 32bit applications usually have to 3GB. The same fix also works for Dragon Age Origins btw., which has similar random crash issues without being large address aware.
A simple patcher can be found here for example:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/Note that trying this fix only ever makes sense for old 32bit games, newer (64bit) games will never need this.
@ Mihalytabornok :
Please ignore any potential recommendations that involve manually tweaking resolution/FOV for this game. Reset the profile to default in the config app and let vorpX do its thing. It knows what it does. Manual tweaking is not necessary for this game, you gain nothing by it except extra work.
The resolution can be changed directly in the vorpX menu up to 2400p. vorpX auto chooses the best aspect ratio and sets the precisely calculated FOV. No need to manually adjust any of that at all.
it‘s always good to learn how to set things up manually for games where vorpX can‘t do it automatically, but whenever it can, it’s usually the better idea to take that offer.
Important:
If you haven’t done that already, make sure your PC can handle resolutions up to 2400p, either by adding custom resolutions (see the vorpX help for detailed instructions) or with the new virtual monitor in vorpX 24.1.0 (link on the front page).
I don’t have any other answer to your question than the one I gave you three times already. Sorry and thanks for your understanding.
It someone else said they got G3D with DX11, please ask them for instructions. The official profile for sure doesn’t, which is why – again – vorpX automatically configures everything to make it work without you having to worry about any of that.
I can’t tell you anything else than I told you above already. G3D = DX9 in this case, which is why the graphics options are set that way automatically. If you read something else it’s either wrong or maybe the person writing that did their own DX11 profile. In that case you would have to ask the the profie author for support/instructions.
Maybe vorpX hooks into the launcher, that might be the case if the launcher loads some DirectX DLLs. Try to add it to the exclude list in the vorpX config app under ‘Excluded Programs’.
If you happen to have the Windows system restore feature enabled, try to go back to an earlier restore point. If not try to remember whether you have changed something recently. E.g. installed some tool that might hook into games while running in the background.
In addition to that try a factory reset in the vorpX config app on the troubleshooting page. Judging from your post this sounds more like something has changed related to your system though.
Yes, G3D is DX9 in this game. That’s why vorpX sets the graphics options accordingly. You can of course tinker like you want, but please always first check whether things work with everything set as it is supposed to be set. Like said before auto settings exist for a reason and disabling them can break profiles entirely, e.g. like in this case when you change the renderer. In other cases it may be specific antialising settings or whatever.
If afterwards you want to make your life more difficult than you have to, that’s your decision obviously, but first please always check whether the defaults work. :)
Please enable automatic settings. Should set all graphivs options as required. As said in the other post a few days ago, disabling auto settings can break profiles entirely. If you disable stuff that causes huge red warning messages when disabled, you are on your own. Sorry.
I see. Did you try to recenter the view (ALT+SPACE)? Sounds like maybe the center position is just off. Otherwise I‘m not really sure what may cause this issue for you.
You can play every game that way that vorpX let‘s you play in 3D, regardless what they default to. On the main page of the vorpX menu change the ‚Play Style‘ option to either ‚Immersive Screen‘ or ‚Cinema‘.
Both modes come with a fairly huge amount of customization options. You can even import custom backgrounds for cinema mode in the config app.