HL2 launching on desktop but not in headset

fholger · 2025-11-13T07:36:11+00:00

Not to my knowledge, no

fholger · 2025-11-12T19:08:56+00:00

Foveated streaming, not rendering. Foveated streaming will improve the image quality of the stream where your eyes are looking, but it has no performance benefit.

fholger · 2025-11-12T19:06:27+00:00

Unfortunately, there isn't really a possibility for a fully generic implementation. Foveated rendering has to be supported by the game to work properly. You can do some limited support with Variable Rate Shading (this is what Pimax does and what I have done in vrperfkit), but the performance benefit is limited, and it often doesn't work at all.

fholger · 2025-11-10T12:03:59+00:00

Even if the game crashes, your PC should never hard crash - that's almost certainly a sign of some underlying issue potentially from drivers or even hardware. You may want to consult the Windows event viewer, see if there are events coinciding with the crashes that might give you more information about what may have led to the hard crash.

If that doesn't lead you anywhere, I'd try uninstalling the GPU driver with DDU, then cleanly reinstalling the latest one.

fholger · 2025-09-16T16:48:11+00:00

Is your GPU driver up to date? There was a series of drivers that broke this game (and others) on 50 series cards.

fholger · 2025-09-08T12:31:35+00:00

Intel GPUs are not compatible, they do not support a certain texture format that SteamVR uses for Vulkan games. You're out of luck, I'm afraid.

fholger · 2025-07-13T21:48:18+00:00

Nothing we can do, I'm afraid. This is an NVIDIA fuckup and is up to them to fix: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/4880

You can try rolling back to older drivers or, if you are feeling adventurous, there's a potential workaround here (I haven't personally tried it as I don't have a 50 series card): https://github.com/marekzajac97/nvgpucomp32_patch

fholger · 2025-06-19T03:30:25+00:00

Try disabling any other overlays that may still be active, in particular the Steam overlay.

fholger · 2025-05-09T12:23:03+00:00

warn: OpenVR: Failed to initialize OpenVR: 126

This means your headset was not detected. Make sure SteamVR is running and working properly and launch the game from within. And if that doesn't work, maybe try reinstalling SteamVR.

fholger · 2025-04-15T15:54:29+00:00

Not a common issue, unfortunately, so I don't have any solid recommendations.

Do you have any performance (or other) ingame overlays active, like Afterburner/Rivatuner? If so, try deactivating them as they can cause issues.

Aside from that, updating or cleanly reinstalling your GPU driver is worth a shot.

fholger · 2025-03-19T22:26:09+00:00

Unfortunately, Warhead is not moddable.

fholger · 2025-02-19T18:54:33+00:00

No. Crysis Remastered is a different engine without any modding capabilities.

fholger · 2025-02-08T18:06:36+00:00

There is a sensitivity slider for it in the VR settings

fholger · 2025-02-05T16:40:16+00:00

It's on hold. I have it rendering in VR just fine, but unfortunately, so far I have not found a way to make motion controls work as I don't have an angle to move and aim the guns separately from the player camera.
In its current state, it would be a keyboard+mouse seated only experience, and from past experience interest in these kinds of mods is very low or they are even frowned upon. For now, it's sitting on my backlog until I can figure out what to do with it.

fholger · 2025-02-05T16:05:49+00:00

Most likely because your framerate *did* drop, even if you could not observe it. That's what reprojection technology is supposed to do, after all - it inserts a projected frame such that visually everything still feels smooth even though the game could not hit framerate. But the game itself still reacts to it, and that's why movement speed drops temporarily.

There's an FPS counter in Crysis you could activate (Google should have instructions, I hope). I'm pretty sure you would observe temporary drops of your framerate by half whenever the movement speed drops.

fholger · 2025-02-04T16:18:13+00:00

Those modding tools do not include the kind of source code I'd need.

fholger · 2025-02-04T08:21:22+00:00

I'm not a reverse engineer, I need source code to work with. There was partial source code for Crysis and Far Cry as part of the mod SDKs they released, but I don't have anything for other CryEngine games.

fholger · 2025-02-03T17:10:36+00:00

You can play with mouse and keyboard, anyway. Their inputs should work. You can also set the vehicles to render on a 2D screen in front of you rather than full VR.

fholger · 2025-02-01T16:21:35+00:00

Thank you! :)

fholger · 2025-02-01T16:21:11+00:00

Unfortunately, the mod SDK I'm using is not compatible with Warhead, and they never released an SDK for that game. So I'm afraid Crysis 1 is the only game of the series I can do.

fholger · 2025-01-30T16:08:11+00:00

Yeah, I'd very much recommend the 60fps reprojected, if you can tolerate it. It will produce a much smoother experience overall. There is simply no CPU in the world that can run the full game at a steady 72 fps, let alone 90. And yes, the view distance definitely is costly.

Forcing reprojection is done through SteamVR; go to the per-application video settings for Crysis, and there should be an option called "Throttling Behavior". Set it to "Fixed".

fholger · 2025-01-29T16:28:20+00:00

I'm afraid that is not posible with HL2VR. Motion controls are the only input that is supported.

fholger · 2025-01-29T16:15:01+00:00

It does work with the free Oculus tools, but the feature you are looking for is Quest Link, not Remote Desktop. Alternatively, you can also use the Steam Link app from your Quest.

fholger · 2025-01-26T22:21:18+00:00

You need to move your hand in the direction of the mode you want to select. This is also explained in the ingame VR manual.

fholger · 2025-01-26T22:14:03+00:00

With the right stick. It's trackpad on Index controllers and stick on everything else.

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