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20/02/13
vorpX 20.1.1.1 has been released.This is just a band aid for an issue introduced by today’s Steam release, which could get stuck in an infinite update loop when launching any game with vorpX running. Apparently Steam now dislikes the recently introduced more rigorous overlay blocking.
No other changes.
The hotfix disables the rigorous overlay blocking, basically going back to how things were before vorpX 20.1.0. Unfortunately doing so doesn’t come without side effects, most prominently it prevents vorpX from hooking the Steam version of Red Dead Redemption II again for now, which was the main reason for the new blocking method in the first place.
A new solution for the Red Dead Redemption II overlay conflict that works with the latest Steam version will be looked into. At this point I can’t promise anything though. For the time being your best option is to get Red Dead Redemption II directly from Rockstar.
@ forlaunchcast: That’s an issue with the most recent Steam version that was released today. They might not have liked how vorpX disables the Steam-Overlay since the last version.
I’ll release a hotfix ASAP, for now please uncheck the ‘Try to block kwown game overlays’ checlbox in the vorpX config app. That should mitigate the issue.
Unless your AV software/firewall blocks vorpX from accessing the internet you should receive updates automatically. If that doesn’t work for some reason, you can always use your web installer to fetch the latest version. If you didn’t keep it, you just have to request a new one once.
Might make most sense to check your firewall/AV settings though to ensure auto updates work as intended.
Quest works fine either wired via Oculus Link with any decent USB 3 cable or wireless with an additional streaming app.
My personal recommendation would be doing it via Oculus link as that has less latency, but if you prefer to stay wireless, you can do so if you want.
It has its own profile, should work well enough already without the changes I made over the last days.
You can just launch the game without having to care about anything except for a game restart when vorpX prompts you to do so after the resolution has been adjusted. As always with games that have DirectVR resolution support, you can select a preferred quality on the DirectVr page of the vorpX menu.
The improvements affect any OpenGL game, but I haven’t tried an Unreal engine title with the changes yet. IIRC the original Unreal was already working at some point, but I’m not 100% sure.
BTW: The OpenGL support is more of a personal pet project than anything else. It is still limited to fairly old (‘fixed function’) OpenGL games. I’m two or three steps closer now to a point where tackling G3D for newer, shader based OpenGL might make sense, but that may or may not happen, so don’t hold your breath. There are always more important things…
Please send an e-mail to the register mail address shown in the license dialog or use the contact form under support if sending an e-mail does not work for some reason.
The forum is not the right place for this. Thanks.
Two more good old ID3 games I can fully recommend are Return to Castle Wolfenstein (from 2001, available on Steam/GoG) and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force (not purchasable anymore I think, but worth it if you happen to have an old CD version). Both have full DirecVR support.
BTW: I incidentally spent the last few days adding some (semi-minor) improvements to the OpenGL path after not touching it at all for a long time. You probably noticed the odd graphical glitches in the Quake III menu screen, most prominently the Q3 logo only showing in one eye. Annoying stuff like that will be gone with the next vorpX version, at least for the most part. Also ID3 and other OpenGL games won’t crash anymore when you change their resolution with vorpX active.
There is a ‘Generic 3D Display’ device since vorpX 20.1.0 that outputs a side by side image to ease your life in that regard. The next build will address a few remaining issues, most importantly OpenGL not working yet. Be aware though that the ‘Generic 3D Display’ mode is not officially supported. vorpX is built for VR, consider SBS an unsupported freebie.
Digital only since about a year or so. The CDs were an optional service that our e-commerce provider offered in the past, nothing we ever did ourselves. I don’t really know why they don’t offer that option anymore, probably not enough people still ordered CDs recently.
If you closed vorpX immediately after clicking yes, please try to leave it running for a while. The download is only 6mb, so normally fetching the update should take only a few seconds, but with a slow connection or some network hiccup between you and the server it might still take a little while. Just start vorpX and use it normally. Everything else happens in the background.
Also exclude the vorpX program folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Animation Labs\vorpX) from your AV scanner. Just in case.
If the above doesn’t solve the issue, please create a trouble shoot data archive in the config app after a vorpX session and send it to support |at| vorpx com. I’d like to check your logfile in that case to see at which point the process fails.
I can’t really give any more useful answer than the one I gave you several times above already, sorry. There is no single X*Y pixels answer to your question since the right answer for you depends on your personal preferences in regard to performance vs. resolution.
Rules of thumb you should keep in mind are: 1. Resolution as high as possible while still keeping the framerate high enough to be comfortable for you. 2. Square/4:3 aspect ratio if you (or vorpX automatically) can set the FOV high enough to fill the entire screen, 16:9 if you need ImageZoom to compensate for FOV. That’s fairly easy and the best advice on could give in this regard.
VR Controllers act either as mouse/keyboard (freely configurable) or as gamepad. That can still boost immersion quite a bit since that way you have your hands free to pretend to interact with the game world.
Try it, you’ll probably be surpised how small the difference between actually openening a door or reaching out and then pressing a button is for your brain, same for pretending to aim with a gun etc. A bit like playing air guitar, but way better. You can even display animated hands instead of the controllers if you want.
You can try to make a copy of existing profiles in the config app and then apply your game’s .exe to the newly created profile to get stereo 3D for unsupported games. With a custom engine it’s not overly likely to find a matching profile though. The Unreal Engine 3 base profile might be worth a shot, but don’t get your hopes up.
Like I suspected the scanner cache is outdated due to some recent game update. Go to the DirectVR page of the vorpX menu, empty the cache and re-run the scanner.
You may have to do that several times until everything works as intended, took three attempts for me. If you can’t make it work, wait until the next vorpX (no date set yet), that will come with an updated cache.