HOW TO GET GZDOOM-VR- 4.11.3 WORKING and games that work in VR with it. (PB3.0)

[Maximum James]

I have gotten GZDOOMVR to 4.11.3 to work with:
- Brutal Doom V22 beta test 3
- Project Brutality 3.0 Staging build
- Extermination Day Vanilla ( I think its the lastest version )
- Wolfenstein Blade of Agony
- Apocalyptic Vibes demo
- Castlevania

I thought GZDOOMVR was broken or only worked on some computers, but it starts off using the vulkan driver which doesn't work in VR. So gzdoomvr downloads with a switch that breaks it turned on and to fix it you just have to know about it.

1. Goto ...documents/my games/GZDOOMVR and open the GZDOOMVR ini.
2. Set "from vid_preferbackend to 1" to "vid_preferbackend to 0"; 0 is what you want.
3. Now the game should load in vr with mods and what not.
4. It's because it does not work with Vulkan apparently. Too bad, so sad.

AIMING AND WEAPONS
1. I have not gotten this to work after trying it, but Bighead says use an older version of the weapons pk3 file or files to make sure they work properly and do not crash your game. Otherwise, use the following steps...
2. Go into VR options and make sure weapons are set to sprite.
3. Change the weapon scale down to almost 0 so the weapon sprite does not get in the way. (Project Brutality has the dangling legs so you want to get rid of those so they don't block your vision and look silly.)
4. Download the laser-sight-v0.6.pk3 mod, this has never failed. Blade of Agony will let you activate it via the console. "m8f_wm_ShowLaserSight 1" will turn on the laser sight. The author deserves much respect, but I don't see his name in the .zip filem, so I will add that in sometime.

GRAPHICS
1. TURN OFF RENDERING INTERPOLATION. Either you can make the map movement nice and smooth with render interpolation on or it can look like 30 fps with render interpolation off, BUT TURN IT OFF. Otherwise, whenever you look around in vr it will have a stilted earthquake glitch and feel super lame. Sprite interpolation is fine.
2. Turn resolution to 960 by 540 which is half 1920x 1080. It's doom, so why not?
3. Enjoy a buttery smooth vr first person shoot the way god intended. Well, 30fps for the map I guess, but that's Doom.

QUESTION:
AM I missing something that will let me have 3d guns are anything close to that? Using a laser aimer is worth it to play these games, but I'd rather aim a stick or anything. UPDATE: Bighead solves the problem, and with a very easy google search, but i could not get the fix working for project brutality.

BLADE OF AGONY
When using the sniper scope assign a button and just use it top get through the tutorial even though it doesn't do anything useful in VR with thus setup.

I will try to be more complete and this has all been answered and explained before, but just in case someone does a search of steam forums or something.

DOOM IN VR MAY EXPOSE A HIDDEN DEFORMITY IN YOUR SOUL:
If you get sick while playing this in VR then get rid of the vomit and then just keep playing until you can't vomit anymore. Then you can have company over. Keep a big yoga mat down so you and a helper can quickly pick it up and carry it by holding the corners. You can get your wife or roommate or whoever you trust to help you quickly dump the vomit into the bathtub and rinse it down, but make sure it someone you trust to not tell anyone about your hideous motion sickness disease. Hopefully you will learn there is no real such thing and it was all in your head.

[Bighead]

Old post but I found it pretty easily in a google search. 3D weapons in GZDoomVR work, the problem is the pk3 files are broken. Download an earlier version of GZDoomVR (like 4.8.2) and grab the weapons pk3 files from that and replace the ones in 4.11.3.

[Maximum James]

Originally posted by Bighead:

Old post but I found it pretty easily in a google search. 3D weapons in GZDoomVR work, the problem is the pk3 files are broken. Download an earlier version of GZDoomVR (like 4.8.2) and grab the weapons pk3 files from that and replace the ones in 4.11.3.

Thanks that is one of the first things I will try once I have my VR setup again after a move.

[Maximum James]

I've been mostly playing Project Brutality for a while and I forgot that 3D weapons of any kind don't work with it...I think.