Careful with those crates!
Hey folks!
Just a quick heads-up to let you know that the R.E.A.L. VR framework now offers early access support for https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280350/DEATH_STRANDING_2_ON_THE_BEACH/ (I get no commissions).
5 days after release... not bad huh ;-)
What can I say about this game? It's another masterpiece, both on the technical side and in story writing. It's pixel poetry.
And the Decima engine is, well, unreal, if you'll excuse my pun. The performance is amazing, yet despite that, on a clear day you can see forever!!
Don't play this game in VR if you cannot stand to be moved, emotionally involved, scared, and transported to a magical world in the future.
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dude! when did you start charging members again and why didn't you notify your members that you will start charging again? I kept my membership because you said you won't charge until the copyright fiasco is over and I wanted to support you. I never received a notice that the membership fee is on again! I only use your mod for Cyberpunk, I have no use for it now that that title is out of the game, you should have sent out a notice before you start charging again! I looked everywhere, there is no notice, not even here! I find this very deceptive especially because most people only pay for one month membership to get the mod then cancel until the mod gets broken and needs an update! I want my money back from the March 28 charge! Honestly, I feel cheated! I only found out that you charged me on my card statement! I think it comes without saying that if you suspend the membership fee you will notify people that you are starting to charge again! This really sucks!
I have pinax crystal light and meta quest 3 I prefer pimax but understand r.e.a.l runs with meta xr is there a way to switch to metaxr from pimax xr without plugging in my quest 3? Minor inconvenience i knkw but would rather just leave my pimax plugged in and not have meta quest on and connected.
Why would you need to plug your Quest 3 in? As long as you have the Meta app installed and up to date, Pimax should use Oculus runtime if you have auto set in the REAL overlay. If you for some reason wanted to set Oculus as your OpenXR runtime, you can do that in the Meta Link app settings. When I have Pimax set as my OpenXR runtime in the play software, it still uses Oculus runtime.
Thanks guys, I solved the crash problem, now I have a little problem in the game, where the battery bar and the shoe wear bar don’t work properly is it a known bug? Thx
What do you mean by "don't work properly"? I can see when the battery is draining as well as when my shoes get damaged.
Guys, I need help like this please, at the beginning of the game it was perfect then without making any strange changes, Lucke Ross’s menu crashes the game. Please help me or at least give me some ideas to solve the problem. Hello and happy holidays. 🙏🙏🙏
Try disabling Steam input in the Steam controller settings.
Im having an issue with death stranding 2 , started happening yesterday, whenever I start the game it opens the meta app instead of starting vr , it's the only game that does this for my other games work right away , playing with pimax crystal light, I have already played ds2 around 5hrs before this happened
That is odd. Do you have Oculus set as your OpenXR runtime perhaps? Try setting Pimax as OpenXR runtime in the play software.
Hi all, a guide for setup the game for Vr!?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-setup-r-e-152405468 If you look up how to install REAL VR on YouTube, my video will probably come up. My channel is PTF. There are still some of my videos on some of the posts here. We can't use that one anymore obviously. It is still there though.
NeiR Automata…requested a million times, is it doable? Also March 25th was my 50th, nice to see DS2OTB hit. You’re appreciated Luke.
Y'all see this shit???? https://www.pcguide.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-vr-experience-announced-by-zero-latency-vr-coming-soon-to-locations-worldwide/
At least we know they are totally ok with paywalls 😉 Paying $10 one time to be able to play the whole of a particular Cyberpunk version as long as you want..... not OK! Paying per hour, or session, to play through a small chunk of the game each time...... totally OK!
Hey, does anyone know how to set up for Uncharted Legacy of Thieves properly? I get weird visuals, like the environment is huge and the character model is double. If I increase the world scale to around almost max of the slider the character model is clear but anything below that makes a double.
What headset are you using? There should be a setting in the game called "render scale" or something like that. Make sure it is at 100.
I still need to play the first one. Is there first person options or is it not really needed? If not can we position cam like ff7 also slow mo like ff7?
No FP cam. It is 3rd person as you will need to see if you are losing balance. There is a mod on Nexus that makes the compass view a toggle, so you can use it for first person. You can also just hold it when driving or looking at things normally. The mod may also get rid of the compass UI, don't remember for sure. There is also another option using Cheat Engine from VRified games. Tutorial for setting it up is at the 10:10 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3rXV9eClk0
How to hide the mouse cursor in the REAL VR mod? I'm using a very old version, 5.0.2. The REAL VR mouse cursor is always visible even when I don't bring up the overlay. How can I hide it?
I'm not aware of any shortcut or anything for that. Are you using a mouse to play? Must be playing one of those games that are no longer around? :)
Is there a way to have the Batman Arkham games in VR? So bumbed that Meta has the only available game.
Well, there is if Luke supports them :) Not sure if he will. You can always throw out request. Just don't post it constantly :)
keep on keeping on, master!
Otherwise would it be possible to make the mod think i has to output 180 fps or 240fps? And then just show the actual frames in the native frequency of the headset such as 90hz or 120hz? This sounds like something easy to do, and runnable on high end graphics cards.
That is already possible. AER V2 caps at 2x your headset refresh rate. It is only worth using in a handful of the games though, even on a 5090. CPU limitations are a thing still. There is no way I am hitting 180fps in DS2 for example or even DS1. I could do 144 in DS1 and I may be able to hit that in DS2 with some moderate settings and resolution sacrifices. I'd rather stick to 90 and play at high res though, because it is going to look far better. If you want to run at 90 but have the game think you are doing 180, you can't just do that without any kind of motion smoothing or frame gen or something like that. That already exists too, with 1/2 rendering mode. I don't know exactly what you are trying to say, but hopefully that covered it :)
Hello Brandon, could you ask Luke if for the GTA 5 REAL VR Mod it is possible to use AER V2? The current implementation makes me queezy. I don't have the stomach when the car takes a sharp turn. Too much ghosting.
It is not. He would have to port GTA V over to the current framework pretty much. Maybe he will someday, but I don't think it is any type of priority right now. I wouldn't count on it though, as Take Two tried to DMCA the free Github version of GTA V.
Somehow with the REAL option DLSSS turned on,something feels kind of strange to me.I already played about 10 hours of DS2 and after every session my eyes were hurting a little.Today i did turn off DLSSS and noticed despite of the shimmering it feels better to watch.Someone else noticed this?
You can also try using FSR, it works pretty well in this game. DS2 has the best DL(S)SS implementation currently though. FSR will give you better performance with not much shimmering in this game. It has more visible aliasing though. Were you playing for around the same time with DL(S)SS off?
Hello, I just downloaded Death Stranding 2 on Steam, and when I enable the mod, it crashes after about one second. Basically, the image starts to appear in VR, and then it crashes. Maybe it’s due to a recent update. Do you have any advice for me?
Disable Steam Input in the Steam controller options for that game :) It is mentioned in the release post.
I'm a bit confused as to how you actually download the... er... thingy... (not quite sure what to call it in light of recent events) and do the updates also include patches and updates for compatibility issues across the supported game stack.
I am not aware of any current broken games due to updates, so they should still work. The free version download should have all the past supported games with the exception of the current 3 early access games and any DMCA'd titles. The Early Access version has the latest 3 supported games along with all the supported games in the free version. If you are a member, you can just download the Early Access version, and it should cover everything. If there is a new release to the framework, the Early Access version will be updated to cover the new release. When a release leaves EA, the free version will get updated to support it. But to keep it simple, just download the EA version and it will work across all supported titles currently. With the exception of any games that were DMCA'd.
Since the last update of the game, I get a lot of random freezes. Game is still running on the desktop, but frozen in the headset.
It is an issue that people have reported having while playing flat as well. I have had 2 or 3 times where it freezes and then the cutscene plays at like 2x speed until it catches back up to the dialogue. Have you adjusted the settings at all to give yourself some performance headroom? There is this direct storage file upgrade on Nexus, I don't know if it will improve things or not, but it has seemed to help some people with stutters. Other people have said that they deleted the direct storage files entirely which helped with stutters and freezes but it will also increase CPU usage, so not sure if that is a good route to go here. Make sure to back up the dlls files first if you chose to replace them or delete them. https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding2onthebeach/mods/18 When you have a freeze, you are welcome to grab a copy of the RealVR64.log file, put it on pastebin.com and post a link here and I will look at it. Just to see if anything pops up there. You can also look at Windows Event viewer to see if it gives you any info. Especially if the game crashes.
I'm getting a weird screen tear effect when moving my head, that isn't FPS related, I've got a locked 90fps and lots of headroom. It happens even on the splash screens and seems to come and go. Not sure if it's a Virtual Deskptop thing or a game thing, but I've seen it appear in VD desktop mode too. I'm on a 5090/Quest 3. Anyone else experiencing this? It's driving me nuts! Seeing it in Doom Eternal and BG3 so far, but haven't tried other games.
Make sure you don't have any motion smoothing/SSW/ASW turned on. You are using VDXR in the streamer app and Oculus runtime? No SteamVR right? Also make sure you don't have frame gen on in game, Nvidia app. Also, no VRSS at the bottom of Nvidia settings. Have you tried connecting with Air Link to see if you get the same thing?
I'm encountering issues while playing DOOM: The Dark Ages. I'm using the latest Steam version. When I apply the VR Mod v26, the game throws an error. From forum guides, after enabling Steam Input, the error disappears, but the opening intro cutscene becomes extremely laggy, and I can't get into the game afterwards. If I use the non-Steam cracked version with the VR Mod installed, only a flat square screen appears in front of me — it’s neither proper VR mode nor mono mode, just a plain square display. What should I do to fix this?
Make sure you have the game in windowed. If you need to disable REAL to adjust settings, rename RealRepo folder to RealRepo_bak Here are settings from the original post. GAME: Environmental Screen Shake: Off UI: HUD Aspect Ratio = Default HUD Scale = 0.50 (do not forget this otherwise everything in your HUD will look huge) SUBTITLES Scale = 1.50 CONTROLS: Aim Assist = Off VIDEO: Window Mode = Windowed Aspect Ratio = 16:9 Resolution = 1920 x 1080 Vertical Sync = Off Enable HDR = Off Present From Compute = On (recommended value, but can also be set to Off in case of problems) Resolution Scaling Mode = Off Field of View = 90 Depth of Field = Off Upscaler = DLSS if you have an NVIDIA card. Unfortunately this title is not yet supported by OptiScaler, so if you have an AMD card you will need to select FSR here and won't be able to take advantage of DL(S)SS yet. Keep monitoring their Wiki though, as I'm sure that somebody will soon find a way to spoof an NVIDIA card. Enable HDR = Off Motion Blur = Off (very important in all my mods to avoid image smearing) Reflections Quality: Sadly this game follows the modern trend of making ray tracing mandatory, which really kills frame rate even if you have an RTX 5090. You can try to gain back some fps by setting Reflections Quality to Off or Low, which apparently limits ray tracing to shadows and general lighting.
How can I find the INFO for the games I supported before? Only the three new games now have detailed viewable requirements and settings in INFO, while none of the older ones can be displayed.
They need to be redone to fit the new format of release posts.
I waited for this game and I knew that you will don't miss it :) Diving in a wonderful world;)
Have fun!
Am I tripping or is there not a download attachment on this post? Last one i see with a file download is the first early access post.
Can it be both? :) The Early Access download will include anything new upon release. You just re-download the EA version and you should be good to go.
You better be quick with Crimson Desert before Mutar cracks it.
If Mutar is working on it, why would Luke also work on it? That makes no sense. He just did DS2. If Mutar does Crimson Desert, then that is great. It is not a competition. I much prefer REAL over Mutar's framework but that doesn't mean it needs to be some kind of competition. Pretty sure it took Luke a ton of work to get DS2 working in 5 days! Lets just appreciate that.
to remove black bars in cutscenes use https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding2onthebeach/mods/19
Hi guys! Can someone guide me how to setup for crystal light openxr via oculus? Seems i can't find any information.
install Oculus ，than you can use Oculus Runtime.
Actually, why don't you get commissions? :) I'd love to buy all games supported by your framework with a referral - that way we could make it more visible that we buy these games specifically to play them in VR and hopefully you could get a small commission as a bonus!
Ah well, fair enough :(
Oh awesome! Is it 3rd person only, or is there 1st person functionality?
No FP added in. You can use the compass view as FP though, which works for scenic moments when driving or something like that.
HI is there a chance crimson desert will follow?THX
Unfortunately Mutar mods do not run smoothly on VRto3D on 3D TV. Much less options like 1/2 or 1/3 compared to Luke Ross mods.
Excellent, incredibly fast work! I am really looking forward to playing this return trip to our troubled future in Death Stranding 2. I have almost finished your last masterpiece - Baldur's Gate 3 (a great, very long game). My only BG3 issue has been blurring of the second mini-window of 2 items when comparing items in one's inventory. I still think you might broaden your marketing by posting in the Luke Ross general topic in the flat2VR Discord forums, describing the recent releases like DS2 and BG3, as well as the extensive list of free games. Ideally, you could pin the latest list of free and exclusive games in this topic area.
Hey Luke, hey Brandon, glad to have you back and that the VR Journey continues. I appreciate that you went through this impact and decided to go on with your loyal Patreons. I have only a quick question according to upcoming games supported by you: have you planned to jump into the Assasins Creed Series? Especially into Valhalla? This is my favourite AC game and every time I play it in 2D and see these beautiful landscapes I think that this would be perfect in glorous 3D and VR.
NoMoreFlat (Mutar, another creator on Patreon) has VR mods for most of the recent Assassin's Creed series games, as well as other games like Alan Wake 2 and God of War Ragnarok.
Hey Luke, I just wanted to congratulate you sincerely for your incredible work. The emotions your mods bring are truly something special. I’m really glad you didn’t stop, and that you keep going. Much respect to you, stay strong and keep it up.
Hello, will the next version be able to update support for EA F1 2021?
you're the boss :) thank you for this ! once more, you are doing such great job to bring us AAA titles to enjoy in glorious VR, i cant thank you enough !
I found a youtube video that said to download this and how to install it to play forza horizon 5 in vr. "How to play forza horizon 5 in vr (full guide)" did i just waste 15$ and 1.5 hours of my life? Because i did everything. Supported the creator fully. Followed the install and nada. Have i been bambooozled?
Yup, doesn't work with FH5 🙁 Works with lots of others though. You got a link to the video?
You the man
Great.But sorry the stupid question: Where do i found the download now? I see only a early access version under 11 of March
Should be in the EA download now
For me performance/visuals seem lesser than with DS1, I'm at 23 scaling with a 4090. I'll try turning on "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling" in windows... that seems to magically boost things for some games (like Pandora/Avatar). Is it recommended to use the latest NVidia drivers?
Latest drivers are usually best for new games. It's a new game with updated graphics, of course it will be somewhat more demanding. Are you using all the highest settings? I get really good performance with everything set to High except for texture quality (Very High). I hit a stable 90fps at 40ppd using Legacy on a 5090. I also have reflections off because I don't like the shimmer it causes on things, but you can turn those to high as well. Using DLSS balanced.
Amazing work and very many thanks Luke!
How many days would it take you to crack Witcher 3, technically ?
All of them.
Wow that was fast! Thanks Luke!
Hello. How do you properly measure performance? For any game including GTA 5 Legacy, the SteamVR graph shows nothing and the virtual desktop performance overlay does not as well. They all seem to report a really low frame time that does not mate what the game really takes to render each frame. What tool can I use otherwise?
There are fps and latency boxes you can check in the Overlay tab of the REAL overlay. There is also Riva Tuner/Afterburner which works well. HWinfo sensor panel is really good too.
5 days ??? You're getting old :P
You're awesome!!!
So being that crimson desert can go into a first person were you thinking about that one? (Asking for a friend) LOL
No more neck craning with the decoupled camera controls, trippy. Your amazing man 😎
Awesome, cant wait to play it. Thanks for all the hard work.
5 days? Holy crap, great job Luke!