Stay away from vorpX

[cate]

I got vorpx so I could play my summer car in vr, and also some other stuff like supposedly fallout new vegas with vr controller support.
However vorpx is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and useless.
It just slaps a pancake game... on your head. And it does this horribly -- you need to spend lots of time tweaking settings for every single game so that it doesn't look horrible, then you choose different viewing modes: one where it's "theatre", other is "theatre" but the edges is coloured smudge, and last is an attempt at truly converting a flat game to vr, but works horribly.
NOTHING will ever be good. YOU WILL NOT enjoy playing flat games with vorpx because vorpx looks so bad and is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
If you want to play a flat game in vr, TOO BAD. vorpx is NOT a solution.

Also the program is ♥♥♥♥ expensive and they don't do any refunds >:(
If you are still curious about vorpx say so, so I can help you NOT to be SCAMMED by this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ software

[Libre]

With so many VR games. vorpx is basically useless. Many people use it and they are happy, but I never bought it because if a game is flatscreen, it is flatscreen. Build a VR game is more complex than project it in a headset.

[Xarovin]

Thanks for the heads up, I gave it a quick google and it seems everyone agrees.

Originally posted by Libre:

if a game is flatscreen, it is flatscreen

I remember using the iz3d drivers to play games in 3D, some dating back to at least 2004. I used red+blue glasses so the quality was a bit crap, but it was interesting and fun when it worked properly (I specifically remember UT3 looked amazing, UT2004 looked meh, and Crysis only rendered shadows in 1 eye).

Considering I was doing this 10 years ago, I honestly don't understand why there's so many issues now, it's really a shame as I'd love to try some old games in proper 3D.

[Oleksii]

Originally posted by cate:

NOTHING will ever be good. YOU WILL NOT enjoy playing flat games with vorpx because vorpx looks so bad and is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
If you want to play a flat game in vr, TOO BAD. vorpx is NOT a solution.

That's not completely true. As fellow vorpx user (2 months) I can tell that there are a lot of games which are look way better in Full VR mode like Cloudpunk, Ori, etc..

It's far from ideal, but not that bad as you describe it. I'd suggest not even try any FPP games which don't support free camera movement (the ability to look left and right while moving in any direction). A lot of TPP games support that and they look like a candy once configured properly.

I agree that configuration process is complicated and unintuitive but configuration is still great because of how much you can configure, basically VR mode, ambience, post-processing, controller-bindings, motion related stuff, etc. It's not convenient but it works ntl. Everybody heard about native Hellblade Senuas sacrifice VR? It's so ♥♥♥♥, no matter what settings after playing 15 mins you get uneasy already, Vorpx for flat version makes it looks the same, and so much bearable.

No argument that Vorpx have a ton of downsides as a software which costs 35eur
- it tries to attach to each process which not blacklisted (should be vice versa)
- it automatically launches SteamVR when attaching to process, yet if you terminate it your SteamVR/Steam client crashes
- all settings for the specific game can be only while using headset and bugged overlay
- if you alt-tab once, Vorpx somehow unhooks from your process and your VR host is stuck on waiting for the game, basically you need to restart it
- no trial / demo version so you go in the dark basically, dunno why

But still, it does its job well, way better than any alternatives in the market at the current moment

I don't support OPs claims that Vorpx is a scam. It is costly and you need to spend time to tweak settings for your game, but in the end it works just as intended

[ButtStorm]

i have contant crashings in multiplayer games with vorpex, and games dont render in 3d as they should, no matter what i would do, no matter what the config, its not actual VR experience