Remove the forced message

[SquidNeko]

Remove the forced message when we open the OVR menu at launch. Its so annoying when im just trying to move to a different setup that i cant just click and do what i wanna do.

Stop forcing stuff.

[CurtisVL]

Hi there!

Which message do you mean sorry? The 5 second cool-down on the 'Don't put dumb stuff in reviews' message?

If so, you can skip that message, join our Discord and I can DM you how to do it. Not making it public info due to how much of an issue that is attempting to fix. Unfortunately we all have to suffer for the stupidy of others. :(

@Curtis#1149 on joining, I'll be on for another hour or so!

[CurtisVL]

On that topic though, it should only appear on startup! You can change profile still without seeing it again! It should only happen when the application updates on a Monday too, it's triggered by closing the changelog. :)

[SquidNeko]

It happens everytime i start up VR for me. And i cannot join anymore Discord servers. Im maxed out.

But yes thats the message im talking about. Its really annoying

[CurtisVL]

Originally posted by SquidNeko:

It happens everytime i start up VR for me. And i cannot join anymore Discord servers. Im maxed out.

But yes thats the message im talking about. Its really annoying

That's weird, it should only happen when the application updates, it's possible there's a permissions error with writing version.txt which is used to determine if the build ID changed? This is what triggers the changelog to open.

You're not on the closed-beta branch right? That updates daily and would trigger the prompt every day without the workaround shown in #beta-info to help speed up things for those users.

Regardless, I can post it here in that case:
1. Paste this into the Start menu:
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\Curtis English\OVR Toolkit
2. Press Enter.
3. Create a text document named 'i-will-report-bugs-in-discord'. (With .txt if you have file extensions shown)
4. Never be notified again and promise you'll report stuff here, thanks.

It is in my todo list for today to check this is working as intended as one member said it wasn't, but I've yet to have anyone else say it didn't work. I personally don't use it as I'm usually busy putting on my headset whilst the 5 second timer is running anyway. :)

[CurtisVL]

If you're able to make room, please join us on Discord so I can diagnose this issue with you. Would be great if you could join the closed-beta branch so I can confirm the issue.

My thoughts are that you have a caching issue, Windows is caching the previous version.txt file and as a result every startup is a 'new version' due to the current version never being written. I recently converted settings.json and config.json over to a different writing method that should do some cache-busting (Basically wrist a file twice so it flushes to the disk), I'll convert version.txt over to this as well and it should fix your issue hopefully!

I just need someone with the issue to try it out. I'm afraid I can't post the closed-beta beta code in here though, being in Discord is required as there was a lot of people not providing proper feedback. :)

[SquidNeko]

Originally posted by CurtisVL:

Originally posted by SquidNeko:

It happens everytime i start up VR for me. And i cannot join anymore Discord servers. Im maxed out.

But yes thats the message im talking about. Its really annoying

That's weird, it should only happen when the application updates, it's possible there's a permissions error with writing version.txt which is used to determine if the build ID changed? This is what triggers the changelog to open.

You're not on the closed-beta branch right? That updates daily and would trigger the prompt every day without the workaround shown in #beta-info to help speed up things for those users.

Regardless, I can post it here in that case:
1. Paste this into the Start menu:
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\Curtis English\OVR Toolkit
2. Press Enter.
3. Create a text document named 'i-will-report-bugs-in-discord'. (With .txt if you have file extensions shown)
4. Never be notified again and promise you'll report stuff here, thanks.

It is in my todo list for today to check this is working as intended as one member said it wasn't, but I've yet to have anyone else say it didn't work. I personally don't use it as I'm usually busy putting on my headset whilst the 5 second timer is running anyway. :)

I am not on the closed beta branch no.
But i wrote in that txt file.

I can just manually go and delete whatever files you are thinking creates the problem and make steam put them in again by a running a check.
I see the version.txt it just has a random string of letters and numbers. I can delete that if thats the file?

Im very used to doing things manually around my pc. Actually preffer doing things manually.
I cannot program. But moving around files and stuff like that is easy.

Originally posted by CurtisVL:

If you're able to make room, please join us on Discord so I can diagnose this issue with you. Would be great if you could join the closed-beta branch so I can confirm the issue.

My thoughts are that you have a caching issue, Windows is caching the previous version.txt file and as a result every startup is a 'new version' due to the current version never being written. I recently converted settings.json and config.json over to a different writing method that should do some cache-busting (Basically wrist a file twice so it flushes to the disk), I'll convert version.txt over to this as well and it should fix your issue hopefully!

I just need someone with the issue to try it out. I'm afraid I can't post the closed-beta beta code in here though, being in Discord is required as there was a lot of people not providing proper feedback. :)

I didnt fully understand all of this.
I sadly cannot free up space as all the servers have some kind of importance for me.
Wish Discord would give more space. But yea.

[CurtisVL]

I hope to have a fix for this issue in the next public release, that'll be next Monday. It's not in for beta testing. Basically there's some issues where OVR Toolkit tells Windows to right a file, and the file doesn't actually write. (Which is why you would have been seeing that prompt every startup versus just every update)

You can try deleting version.txt and when it generates itself again it should have the up to date version number in it!

[Malic]

Mine pops up this message every time as well. Am running a Reverb G2

[CurtisVL]

Originally posted by Malic:

Mine pops up this message every time as well. Am running a Reverb G2

Sorry, I pushed a hotfix to hopefully stop Avast deleting files, you should have seen it again on re-launching that time.

Let me know if it happens again though without a release. :)