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Can happen with some games, depending on the copy protection they use. Some modern copy protections do hundreds of online checks and/or virtualize system function calls, preferable while loading to not interfere with actual gameplay. Sometimes that leads to longer load times if something is hooked into the game like vorpX. If you’re lucky, they patch the excessive checking out after a few months.
@ all: Thanks for the kind words to everyone! Just doing my job. Glad you are having fun and good to know that apparently the release turned out rather well with just some minor quirks.
You may want to check the ‘Good Full VR Games for Beginners’ list. Aside from adjusting the resolution to match your PCs performance these pretty much work out of the box in FullVR mode. vorpX takes care of the FOV etc. automatically via its DirectVR feauture. I spare you RTFM hint this time :), you can also find it here.
You can run games at any resolution with vorpX. The higher, the better the image quality (at the cost of performance). If you have an nVidia GPU, you can even add resolutions to your PC that are higher than what your monitor can display. The vorpX help is your friend again: the ‘Custom Resolutions’ section contains a step-by-step guide.
Once you added the custom resolutions, use something like 1920×1440 (or even higher if possible without sacrificing too much performance). If supported by a game profile you may be able to set a preferred quality on the DirectVR page of the vorpX menu. vorpX shows a hint in the top left corner of the game window if this feature is available for a profile.
Please use the contact form above (under ‘Support’) or send a mail to support |at| vorpx com. This cannot be resolved on the forum.
A zoomed in or ‘warpy’ image in FullVR means that the game’s field of view doesn’t match the FOV of your headset, which is important for FullVR mode. For many supported games vorpX can handle that automatically, but if not you may have to take care of it yourself.
Check the ‘Essential Hints Guide’ in the vorpX help for the details. You can access it from the config app. The guide (in general) explains all options you have in regard to dealing with FOV. I couldn’t really explain it better here than it is explained already in the help.
All good, I just had to make as clear as possible that this isn’t officially supported since I failed to do that originally when I suggested dgVoodoo above.
If/when I have some spare time to burn and feel like it, I may look into it, but don’t expect anything. ‘Officially’ supporting an app like dgVoodoo that has to deal with hundreds of games itself would be a can of worms I couldn’t even open if I wanted to unfortnately.
I knew it was a mistake to even mention dgVoodoo before I did it… :)
Just a heads-up that the dgVoodoo2 profile is purely there for you to play with it and see what is possible. dgVoodoo2 itself is a moving target from my perspective. I have zero influence on its development, it may fail at any time and there won’t be any “official” support for any dgVoodoo2 games at all.
That said, I re-check the profile from time to time to see whether it still generally works, and maybe (*maybe*!) I’ll add something in the future, but do not expect anything in that regard ever. And even if I do, that will still be considered unsupported as far as I’m concerned.
The game is not supported, so I can’t really say anything specific. There is one suggestion I have for you though:
You could try to enable the alternative hooking method in the config app, may help with issues like this sometimes.
Caveat: Only try the alternative hooking method in case of issues and switch back afterwards. You will encounter problems with other games otherwise that require the default hooking. The alternative method is not better, just different.
Apart from that you might want to check for potential hooking conflicts on your PC, the trouble shooting guide in the help has more detailed information in that regard.
I’ll check them on occasion. Good old Max would deserve to be vorpXed one way or the other. No promises though, making changes to the dgVoodoo2 shader parser is a bit dangerous since that may have unforeseen consequences for games that work fine.
Definitely worth a try. Can’t really say whether it will work though.
The dgVoodoo2 profile is mainly provided for you guys to experiment with, I’ll test it every now and then with a handful of games to make sure it does what it’s supposed to do, but I can’t really tell which games do work in the end and which may not.
Checked the classic version today and updated the cloud profile after confirming it works. You can now simply download the ‘World of WarCraft [vorpX]’ profile from the cloud to get classic support. Will also be included in the next vorpX update.
Implemented this today, you can tilt the screen in cinema and immersive screen mode with the next vorpX for reclined gaming. Just don’t fall asleep while you play. :)