SteamVR / HTC Vive & Oculus Rift Support

[Thoth Shoggoth]

Any plans to support VR headsets? Cheers

[ArkanHell]

I dont have any WMR headset or any windows 10 running, and dont know how steam vr works with the WMR runtimes but try this:
Run the GoG version of the game, the steam one dont works.
Run IPA as administrator.
Try some of the compatibility modes with ipa and dear esther ( win 8, win 7)
Try another VRGIN tested game ( or more than one if u can).
Anyway im gonna try to run the game again with my vive ( been a long time since last time i played) to check if something change in the new steamvr releases and the game dont even work now.

Regards.

[illgib]

But many have the Steam version and it worked, something changed in Unity or in Steamvr?

I have to buy again on Gog? I got the Landmark for free having the old version here.

Other than Subnautica, that vork by itself, i don't have other of the listed games, i have some others in Unity but none of them works, like Ziggurath on Gog.

There shouldn't be any difference if i'm using a Vive, a Rift or a Wmr, as Steam fully support it, and the SteamVr for Wmr it's here for that, so you can use almost anything out of the store whitout thinkering.

[ArkanHell]

I have bad news, i tried my dear esther gog version and a couple of games i played before with vrgin and no one works :( so looks like the problem is not only related to dear esther is something about the plugin itself, i try to change openvr_api.dll to newer ones into the game plugin folder but still dont working, i try with a older steamvr version ( i keep the one before motion smoothing cos for some games asincronous reproyection work better for me) and still no working, when i have more time im gonna try older steamvr versions and maybe older nvidia drivers too and if i find a working combination i post it here :).

And not sure if vrgin can handle the new stuff implemented in steamvr, cos the programmer dont update the plugin since a veeeery long time ago, and at this time steam vr dont even support WMR headsets.

Regards.

[illgib]

I have the VRGIN 1.1 version, but at this point it's something SteamVr related, maybe they updated something that broke the plugin.
I'm not gonna buy Vorpx just to see if it works, if it had a demo i would try, but i won't throw 30€ in the dark!

At the moment Subnautica it's the only game that i've tryied in vr, and was one who i swear i've never played in vr 'cause i'm a wuss for anything ocean/sea/water related, but i gave it a try to see a couple of scenes, and i'm alredy ok, i won't push too much my lucky star XD

[ArkanHell]

Hi again guys, good news after a looong time believing SteamVR broke something with VRGIN looks like they just change how the VR is started or maybe they fixed since last time i tried.
I been testing some of the games in my new pc ( most of them installed in a HD i pick from the old one) and when i launched Firewatch... it started in VR , i forget i have VRGIN active there and after that i try to launch Dear Esther Landmarks ( gog version :D), but aint work... so if the plugin work with a game, must work with the others...

After trying lot of weird stuff, i find the way to do Dear Esther start in VR too, and probably in more games who stop working with the old way to use the plugin, so this workaround may work with more games, if you try any, please tell us if works, we want more VR games!!

And now the how to...

Install the VRGIN template from https://github.com/Eusth/VRGIN.Template as usuall ( uncompress in the game folder and move the game .exe into IPA.exe), now instead use the shortcut created by VRGIN you must create your own shortcut to the game exe, then edit the properties of the shortcut and in destination add --vr at the end ( as example my "G:\GoG Games\Dear Esther - Landmark Edition\DearEsther.exe" --vr ). Now start the game using this shortcut and enjoy :D.

If you have the game on steam or wanna use steam as launcher to use steam controller or whatever, you can add --vr parameter to launch options and works the same.

Regards,

[Zerofool]

Thanks again for the good news, man!

When I was last able to use VRGIN, I couldn't find a way to force snap turning (I was playing Dear Esther). Smooth turning is quite uncomfortable for me, even with 4 years of VR experience now - I guess some people just can't get used to that.
Has anyone found a workaround for enabling some sort of comfortable turning option in these games?
When I have some free time, I'll play around a bit in the hopes of finding a solution.

[Kris.vdv]

Same here, always so disappointing when everything works but there’s just no snap turn.

[SuperDre]

+1 for real VR support

[MilkMan]

The VRGin method is not working for me, unfortunately. Might need to be the GoG version instead of Steam.

[kmz76]

The game can be run in SBS mode through Reshade with Depth3D. That SBS display can be interpreted by Bigscreen VR as a stereoscopic image. Everything looked toy scaled to me, but it was at least stereoscopic. The turning felt to happen at a few FPS, but advancing with W felt continuous. I played in 1440 res, on an i5-2500 and GTX 1070, that might explain some of the performance problems.

The Depth map flip had to be checked. You will probably want to crank up the Divergence slider to a higher value.

[ArkanHell]

Yeah, but Depth3D uses Zbuffer for 3d calculations, so even in Dear Esther in most places you have a decent 3d, dont work fine with transparency and some other shaders, if you want stereoscopic in geometry mode, give a try to Helixvision, you can play lots of 3d vision native and patched games in VR without a 3d monitor , its really cheap ( 4€) and the Dev and 3Dvision community still very active, even nvidia kick us in the nuts removing 3d vision official support since a while ago, so new patches for great games comes out often.

Regards.

[vsaR1SK]

Just completed game in VR with Oculus Quest 2 and DualShock 4.
Amazing!

[Kris.vdv]

Does it still work with VRgin?

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Just completed game in VR with Oculus Quest 2 and DualShock 4.
Amazing!

[nitejrny]

Man, it really sucks this game and Dissapearance of Carter don’t have WASD keyboard support. The game bad configuration is just too Jenky to work with VR treadmills.

[BroccoliUltra]

Confirmed that ArkanHell's post above worked for me - I only played the first level but its definitely working properly, just follow the steps and make a shortcut on your desktop and launch through that rather than going into Steam VR. Worked with M&KB and Xbox 1 Controller.