A way to play VR and Non-VR tittles at the same time

[Gesteppie / TTV]

At the moment you cannot play VR and Non-VR tittles at the same time on Steam. You are either forced to close the SteamVR instance to play a non-VR tittle, or force the non-VR tittle to override the current VR game.
Please make an option to run both VR and Non-VR side-by-side without forcing us into one or the other!

[76561198407601200]

Well if you are playing one game, more than likely you wouldn't be playing the other at the exact same time.

[Gesteppie / TTV]

I have actually found the way to do it!
And yes, because I have housemates who are obsessed with the VR and I'd still like to use my steam library to play other games whilst I wait my turn for the VR :)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Welll, it was never meant to act that way.

[Gesteppie / TTV]

So anyone wanting to know how to do this;

Go to Steam menu
Click SETTINGS
choose the In-Game tab
UNCHECK "Use Desktop Game Theatre when launching desktop games while SteamVR is active"

Wallah!!! ^_^

[Gesteppie / TTV]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Welll, it was never meant to act that way.

:qr:

With pc's getting beefier all the time, and VR becoming more popular, it's ideal to have one computer being able to do both VR and non-VR at the same time.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Gesteppie:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Welll, it was never meant to act that way.

With pc's getting beefier all the time, and VR becoming more popular, it's ideal to have one computer being able to do both VR and non-VR at the same time.

Same game, I can understand for co-op reasons.

Different games, I don't see why that would be necessary.

[Gesteppie / TTV]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Well if you are playing one game, more than likely you wouldn't be playing the other at the exact same time.

I have a bunch of Housemates that like playing the VR, but my computer is the only one capable of playing it. so it's handy for me to still be able to play/use steam for myself whilst they use the VR :)

[Sil]

Originally posted by Gesteppie:

So anyone wanting to know how to do this;

Go to Steam menu
Click SETTINGS
choose the In-Game tab
UNCHECK "Use Desktop Game Theatre when launching desktop games while SteamVR is active"

Wallah!!! ^_^

Thanks man! very helpful for me too, my daughter wants to play vr and i still wana play rocket league haha

[NinjaScars]

Thanks mate, I've been looking fir the same thing^^ However I still have a problem with configuring the sound and am wondering how you solved that one.

Obviusly while I play a game like DbD I want to only hear the sound from that game. When my wife is playing Synth Rider at the same time she obviously only wants to hear sound from that game. None of the two games allow it to configure an output device and just use the system standard..

[Gesteppie / TTV]

Originally posted by NinjaScars:

Thanks mate, I've been looking fir the same thing^^ However I still have a problem with configuring the sound and am wondering how you solved that one.

Obviusly while I play a game like DbD I want to only hear the sound from that game. When my wife is playing Synth Rider at the same time she obviously only wants to hear sound from that game. None of the two games allow it to configure an output device and just use the system standard..

You'll need to do that through Windows. (assuming Windows10)
Go to your Sound settings in control panel, scroll down to the bottom to Advanced Sound Options.
This should come up with a menu where you can individually control applications input/ output devices and individual sound levels.
You should be able to change the VR game to the VR headset only whilst leaving everything else to go through your regular headset. :)

Hope this helps!

[NinjaScars]

thanks, that's a huge help^^ I didn't know windows 10 had this feature..

[Enzo]

Originally posted by Gesteppie:

So anyone wanting to know how to do this;

Go to Steam menu
Click SETTINGS
choose the In-Game tab
UNCHECK "Use Desktop Game Theatre when launching desktop games while SteamVR is active"

Wallah!!! ^_^

Well i cant thank you enough!

I have AMD APU and nvidia CPU so i use windows settings to choose which app uses which. With this sollution i can play my normal games on APU and the one playing vr can enjoy vr!

[Gesteppie / TTV]

Originally posted by Enzo:

Originally posted by Gesteppie:

So anyone wanting to know how to do this;

Go to Steam menu
Click SETTINGS
choose the In-Game tab
UNCHECK "Use Desktop Game Theatre when launching desktop games while SteamVR is active"

Wallah!!! ^_^

Well i cant thank you enough!

I have AMD APU and nvidia CPU so i use windows settings to choose which app uses which. With this sollution i can play my normal games on APU and the one playing vr can enjoy vr!

Glad this could help! ^_^ thankfully the method of doing this hasn't changed since I created the post :D

[Watermelon]

So I have 1 person playing the vr using steam vr and I want to play another steam game while they play the vr but the vr player loses control as soon as I click off of the game. Is there any ability to allow to vr player to control the game whilst I control another game with my keyboard and mouse? Thank you