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I stopped laughing halfway through that discussion. If you want to continue it, go ahead. Nothing has changed for you, you can tweak all the way you want. But if you continue to make things more difficult for others (and me) by recommending to disable vital new features of vorpX, I’ll have to rethink whether leaving that option in for you tweakers really was the right choice.
Nothing has been taken from you, and I still believe that was the right decision. Right now however both of you, willingly or not, do everything you can to change my mind about that.
For the 10th time or so: advanved users aren’t ‘sacrificed’ in any way. Not in the slightest. Nothing has been taken away from you. You can tweak just as much as you could before. Nothing, absolutely nothing has changed for you if you want to tweak, that can’t be so difficult to understand.
All I’m asking for is that please be very, very careful about advising others to disable the very feature that makes vorpX more accessible for the 95% that don’t want to tweak.
Thanks again for your understanding.
“… Or check to never change game settings in VorpX Config and see if it runs this way …”
People with less knowledge than you will check that checkbox, forget about it and wonder why half the games they start don’t work as they are supposed to afterwards.
Please be very careful to recommend that at all to anyone and if you think it really makes sense in a specific case, please add in the very same sentence that usually that is a very bad idea and should only be done for testing purposes and nothing else.
The number one complaint about vorpX – rightfully – always has been the amount of tweaking required. You like that, most others don’t. By carelessly recommending to disable the very feature that finally addresses this issue, you cause much more problems than you could ever solve with your advice.
That clearly is not your intention, I know that, but even the best intentions not always result in a good outcome.
Thanks again, again and again for your understanding. Hope that clarifies this. We both have probably more fun things to do on a Sunday than having this discussion.
Maybe ask yourself one question: how much more can one listen to a community than someone who implemets a feature requested by you personally – and only you – three days later, like recently the notifications.
In this case however I beg you to just trust me. There would be zero reason to discuss this with you at length if I didn’t think that you are specifically not helping anyone by giving the advice you gave. Thanks again for your understanding.
That is simply not true and I think you know that quite well. Recommending to disable auto settings is the only thing that I specificallly advice against whenever I read that. I’m doing that because In contrast to you I know exactly what issues disabling auto settings can cause.
As said above, if you discover any specific issues caused by this feature, you’re more than welcome to report them here, so they can be addressed. In other cases please simply believe me when I say that disabling auto settings usually will do a lot more harm than good.
Nothing has been taken away from you, you can tweak as much as you like exactly like you always could. Please just don’t make other peoples’ lifes (including mine) harder by recommending something that in 99% of cases is the opposite of good advice. Thanks.
I think I said everything that is to say to say in this regard. You are totally free to get your old vorpX experience back if you want, this option is actually there because I anticipated discussions like this one. With auto settings disabled vorpX doesn’t do anything that it didn’t do before.
But since, like you pointed out yourself, you do not exactly know what the auto settings do, please do not advise others to disable them unless you are 100% sure that they cause an issue. If you are sure, I’m of course grateful for any such hints.
However, to get back on topic, if you re-read my answer above where I explained what vorpX does in case of MO, you will notice that in regard to MO disabling auto settings is a perfect example of bad advice.
As I said, above and in multiple answers to you before: if you want the prior vorpX, where you had to do everything yourself, you can get that by disabling auto settings. Please just don’t report any issues here that you encounter in that case. Thanks.
It would also be great if you wouldn’t advise others to disable auto settings unless you are 100% sure that this feature actually causes a specific issue. Advice to disable auto settings in the vast majority of cases is bad advice.
It is impossible to account for all the different ways you guys configure your Skyrim installations. So in case of issues always check an unmodified install of the game first.
What vorpX does in regard to MO is the bare minimum of ini edits in MOs custom Skyrim ini files that prevent severe graphical glitches likes shadows working not correctly. So actually this is the perfect example of a case where the only correct and useful advice can be to not mess with auto settings. It’s very likely that you will do more harm than good by disabling them.
In other games even worse things will happen, and even if not, you will miss most useful tweaks like disabling effects that look bad VR and so on. So once again: do not mess with auto settings unless you have reason to do so.
Change can be hard, I understand that, but this is change for the better. A lot better.
If you want the prior vorpX, where you had to do everything yourself, you can get that by disabling auto settings, but please don’t report any issues here that you encounter in that case. Thanks.
If you want to disable auto settings, please do it per game in the vorpX menu. Do not use the global override in the config app for anything else than trouble shooting.
Disabling auto settings globally can and will screw up some games completely and even if it doesn’t, will usually do a lot more harm than good. If you disable it globally, you will encounter severe problems with some games and miss a lot of useful tweaks in most others. So if there is one game where you think it’s better to turn auto settings off for some reason, do it only for that game in the vorpX ingame menu.
Can’t really answer that, sorry. I understand that you Skyrim pros all use extremely individual setups and as you can see from even doing coding even for mod tools like ModOrganizer I do everything that is possible to account for that, but please first and foremost check whether any issue you encounter does happen with a completely unmodded Skyrim.
The current vorpX version works perfectly fine with Skyrim and also with a “normal” ModOrganizer setup. For anything else I have no answer.
Please follow the trouble shooting steps outlined above. I even checked for you whether it still works before writing my answer above.
vorpX writes the resolution in the ini and prompts you to restart the game when it is changed. Upscaling, as said above, is added on top. It is not considered in the resolution setting.
If you prefer to tweak everything manually, you can disable the resolution auto-setting in the vorpX menu. After doing so you can set whatever resolution you want manually exactly like with older vorpX versions. I wouldn’t really recommend that though, letting vorpX do its job quite likely will yield better results.
That is with 200% certainty a concidence. Not only didn’t the latest version change anything in regard to D3D9, it is also out since a week. If there was a general Skyrim start crash issue, you would have read about that here.
Please try the usual trouble shooting in case of start crashes: first and foremost disabling your AV scanner if it is not Windows Defender, then every other program running in the background. And last but not least try an unmodded Skyrim.
BTW: vorpX works fine with ModOrganizer, SKSE or not. Please make sure to use the last ‘official’ Mod Organizer build from Skyrim Nexus (1.3.11). There are several forks and custom versions, those were not tested. In vorpX 17.3 actually functionality has been added to specifically handle Mod Organizer profiles since the tool apparently is quite popular.
Like disappearing 3D with Z-Buffer 3D such issues always are by the game changing the depth texture which cannot always be tracked reliably. So same answer: I’ll take a look at it, but can’t promise anything.
What you can try yourself in such a case also is always the same: ALT-TAB out and back into the game might (but doesn’t have to) help.
The auto calculation is based on a preferred quality that you can choose on the DirectVR page of the vorpX ingame menu, ranging from 1080p to 1680p. With the aforementioned custom resolutions added to your PC choosing a preferred resolution in vorpX that fits your PC’s performance in almost all cases will result in a better (for vorpX) resolution than setting it manually.