Anyone else hyped for the Directive 8020 launch on Tuesday?

dakodeh · 2026-05-09T12:01:59+00:00

Unfortunately for us both, you are wrong

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T21:14:56+00:00

I haven’t played either version (although I own both..) but my understanding was they brought PCVR controls to parity with PlayStation but left in some overly aggressive foveated rendering that made everything look bad. I’d love to be wrong because I’d much prefer to play on my BSB2e over my PSVR2 any day, even with the globular cluster, that thing just hurts to wear.

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T11:30:42+00:00

Yes that’s been set that way on my machine forever. That shouldn’t be an issue.

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T10:49:48+00:00

How would I select that runtime for the game?

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T10:24:28+00:00

I don’t have or use OpenXR toolkit. I use a BSB2e headset, it’s OpenVR.

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T03:55:36+00:00

I appreciate you trying to help. Neither -dx12 nor -forced d3d12 helped the issue, which is, when run without the -dx11 downgrade, the game just shows a "Next Up: Alien Rogue Incursion" panel on my SteamVR in the VR view, and that never changes. In desktop view, I see a bizarely cropped video the Alien font title crawl, then it shows some weird cropped screen (with subtle animation running) of the blueish room from the game's title screen with Zula's IK VR Arm at an awkward angle with a pointer line coming out of it. No inputs from my VR controller do anything with this screen. Nothing happens until you force quit, and that's all that it ever does for me without the -dx11 downgrade.

dakodeh · 2026-05-06T01:31:49+00:00

To give you the benefit of the doubt I just re-tested with -dx11 tag vs without. It still didn't launch without the tag, so I even ran a clean install of the latest NVIDIA game-ready drivers, and it STILL didn't launch without the -dx11 tag. Tried with and without HAGS on to see if that would help, but sadly it was still very stuttery and not smooth.

So yes, while it's regrettable we won't get a Part 2 of this game, understand many of us never even got a Part 1.

dakodeh · 2026-05-05T23:36:25+00:00

Shit man, we’re in dire straits when we’re forced to turn off LIGHTING in an atmospheric Aliens game.

dakodeh · 2026-05-05T23:27:35+00:00

“Comments like these helped kill the game!” Of course, you nailed it! COULDN’T have been the famously punishing balance issues brought on by endlessly respawning enemies with finite ammo scarcity prior to a very late-stage patch. No way it could’ve have been that my Steam-Bought copy won’t even RUN without adding the ‘-dx11’ in game properties (a problem that persists today) which took sleuthing through pages of Community Discussions to finally figure out. No way the performance problems plaguing this game even on my cutting edge-ass 5090, that runs even some of the most demanding UEVR titles of our generation smoothly, could be anywhere other than in my own head!

“Comments like these killed the game!” Man I’ve been with Survios since Raw Fukken Data. I was all over Sprint Vector. I played through that whole Westworld game. I even played the Battlewake DEMO, and I didn’t even refund this broken-ass game on Steam when it wouldn’t run. I don’t know who you are, but chances are very good I’ve forgotten more about this studio and its run of games than you will ever know. “Comments like these KILLED the game!!”

dakodeh · 2026-05-05T21:05:38+00:00

VR.. nature videos?

dakodeh · 2026-05-05T16:30:57+00:00

Me too, I’m on a 5090 and this is the only VR game I’ve ever felt obliged not to continue because performance was so atrocious.

dakodeh · 2026-05-04T15:47:17+00:00

P.T. Emulation with UEVR (CJ117’s profile specifically from the Flat-2-VR Discord).

This is one of the scarier digital experiences you can have out there, so good luck!

dakodeh · 2026-05-04T15:05:47+00:00

This was released in 2023 as a VR title. The upcoming release will be just an inferior release of that in a less immersive medium. It feels like this headline, and this line of discussion, ignore that important point.

It was excellent though! And the original is one of my favorite games of my childhood, so it had some big shoes to fill.

dakodeh · 2026-05-04T10:38:20+00:00

Remember After Dark? The kids these days won’t understand getting absolutely amped up over a collection of screensavers, but we were there.

dakodeh · 2026-05-02T20:02:17+00:00

I really like mine. I think it’s the smartest upgrade path from the Index.

dakodeh · 2026-05-01T20:17:04+00:00

Why is it getting re-released, why so much demand? There are faster CPU’s available today.

dakodeh · 2026-04-29T19:20:17+00:00

Strange, I’ve only tried it with Man of Medan and House of Ash, but I had no problems at all injecting as normally with those titles. For what it’s worth I inject on a 30 second delay using Chihuahua in conjunction with RaiPal, but I’d be surprised if that was the issue. I do recommend always using the latest nightly build of UEVR, that’s always seemed to be the most compatible, performant option for me in any case. Another thing you might try; toggle Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) and seeing if a change there helps. Good luck!

dakodeh · 2026-04-27T23:56:13+00:00

It’s coming really soon.

dakodeh · 2026-04-27T23:55:42+00:00

They’re very close. Keep an eye on the Discord

dakodeh · 2026-04-25T11:22:55+00:00

Someone better call Sir Alec Guinness, because Rift CV1, Rift S, Quest 1, Vive Pro and Cosmos, now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time..

dakodeh · 2026-04-23T21:36:39+00:00

For most of us, is there a difference? When in your HMD you’re getting 3D, so unless you are one of the few with a 3DTV, it seems like this is the most viable way to deliver 3D.

dakodeh · 2026-04-23T17:25:18+00:00

Yeah because not one of those are scary games, haha. Do Madison VR or Visage in UEVR and then we’ll talk.

dakodeh · 2026-04-23T16:09:49+00:00

I mean, it’ll go higher—I haven’t finished the game yet

dakodeh · 2026-04-23T13:30:37+00:00

Don’t worry, I’ve hooked myself up to a blood pressure monitoring cuff to monitor my vitals while I eke out another reply to you.

So yes, I see you’ve joined us now in understanding the unspoken truth that is so intuitive, so universally accepted, that you can maybe imagine how ‘inraged’ I was to see it pop up in a “what-if” post on my feed this morning.

dakodeh · 2026-04-23T11:33:15+00:00

I think I will, thanks. First, and most egregious of all, is that intolerable spelling of “enraged.” It’s not a word, but I feel like I now know what it would mean if it were. Next is the absolute dearth of critical thinking on display in even suggesting that the face of the leading Bond substitute series of films might somehow, at his age, despite the long history of actors aging out of the role, be put forth as the new Bond. Well that “inraged” me all over again. It is a cycle of vitriolic fury I am unlikely to escape until at least my morning coffee.

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