realvr

Gaming in VR at 60 fps

If you're here, reading this, it's likely that you already know how grandiose it is to play your favorite games in VR. Just to be there, inside the virtual world. To be able to crane your neck and peek behind a corner. Friend or foe? See and admire details that would never even register with your brain if you were playing on a flat screen.

And yet, if you're here reading this, it's also pretty likely that your favorite game is not in VR (at least officially), because publishers are so scared to invest in the sector, the poor things. I ...

Are you afraid of spiders?

Hey fellas! I have been silent for a while, but in the upcoming days I'm going to positively flood your inbox with posts, to the point that you will probably think "man, I wish he would just shut up already".

Well, if my health permits. I have come down with something that feels suspiciously like COVID. These days it's become really hard to tell it apart from a normal bout of the flu, and even tests are inconclusive, especially in the beginning, but I have been feeling some shortness of breath, which for me is a first, so that makes me...

The state of the mod

Hey dear friends,

it's been a while since my latest post, so I wanted to give you a status update and let you know where we are in terms of advancement on the various fronts (wow, that almost sounded like we're at war).

As you'll remember from my teaser of a month ago, Let's do the Space Warp again!, I have been working like a madman to improve the R.E.A.L. mods framework, addressing what is by far the most commonly reported issue: the ghosting, or dou...

Dark Souls: Remastered servers back online!

So many game updates these days, it's becoming hard to keep track of them ;-)

As was promised a few months ago, FromSoftware and Bandai Namco (to neither of which I have any affiliation) have reactivated the servers for Dark Souls: Remastered.

That means that it's now possible to play DS:R online/multiplayer. However, the official update to the game client that came out yesterday broke my VR mod.

Release 8.4.0, attached below, fixes the issue and restores VR functionality.

Also, from my initial (very brief) testing, i...

Release 8.3.0 (hotfix for CP2077 patch 1.61)

Today Cyberpunk 2077 was updated to game version 1.61, and that broke my VR mod. Release 8.3.0 fixes the issues introduced by the patch and allows you to play again!

I also added a small option, as requested by some of you, in case you wish to prevent the game HUD from ever becoming headlocked. It's imaginatively called "Allow HUD headlocking" and you can find it in the "CP2077" tab of the mod overlay. Leaving it enabled (the default) will keep your gameplay unchanged. I don't actually recommend turning it off, because while it's true ...

Let's do the Space Warp again!

Hey friends, I'm sorry if lately things have been a bit quiet here on the release front ;-)

As you know, I've been working on a few new titles. One of them, which might or might not have swinging from skyscrapers as its awesome map traversal mechanic, gave me the insane urge to return to the drawing table and see whether Alternate Eye Rendering could be made even better. If you already know all about AER and/or want to cut to the chase, please skip to the "What's cooking" section below; otherwise keep reading for some ...

Performance and quality: can we haz both, pleez?

Not sure why I'm speaking LOLcats today, and in a public post to boot O_o

Anyway, Cyberpunk 2077 has attracted lots of players after the 1.6 Edgerunners update, and many of you have been asking for advice on how to make the game perform better in VR. Let me begin by stating that the problem is your typical triangle of constraints. Cheap hardware, image quality, frame rate: choose two out of three []-)

For example, you can upgrade to the incredible NVIDIA RTX 4090 (assuming you can actually find one in stock, which I haven't been ...

Hotfix for 60 fps cap (NVIDIA cards)

This is an emergency release to work around an issue that is ruining the mod experience in VR for many of you.

There seems to be a bug in recent NVIDIA drivers that severely limits the performance of windowed applications. The driver is erroneously forcing V-Sync on, even if the application explicitly asked for an uncapped frame rate. That results in serious ghosting/jitter/judder in the best case, and can also lead to the eye images randomly being drawn out of place or even swapped. As you know, that very quickly leads to motion sickn...

Release 8.0.1 with a fix for AMD users

This is a maintenance release with a small (but crucial) fix for an issue that could prevent my latest mods from entering VR, especially on systems with an AMD GPU. Potentially affected games are Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Ghostrunner: Complete Edition, and Stray.

I already tried and failed twice to exterminate this particular bug, so let's hope that third time's the charm :-)

If you weren't affected by this problem, you don't need to update as there are no other significant changes.

N...

Science fiction, double feature

Who wants to be a cat? Everybody wants to be a cat! Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at :-P

For the first time, the new release attached below (8.0.0) supports two additional games! The idea for one of them was put in my mind by Brian Tate of Flat2VR. A few weeks ago, when I mentioned to him that I was going to mod Ghostwire: Tokyo, he quickly replied: "[...] Can't wait to do some wall running in VR soon!"

I thought: "Mmm. Wall running?!" I never knew there was any wall running in GW:T. Walls disappearing, or cat...

Release 7.3.0

Sep 18: Thanks for all the feedback, folks! It looks like this new release is working well, phew. Just a quick heads-up, courtesy of Patron Tomo: if you have been holding back on Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade because of its price, know that it's on sale at 30% off until Sep 29!!!

Since the Edgerunners Update (version 1.6), it seems that many people have returned to playing Cyberpunk 2077 in VR. Some of you, however, have been experiencing more frequent crashes ...

Release 7.1.0 supports Ghostwire: Tokyo!

7.2.0 update: Release 7.2.0, attached at the bottom of this post, fixes all VR-related problems introduced by the Edgerunners Update (1.6) that came out yesterday for Cyberpunk 2077. It also solves a regression in my VR conversion for Horizon: Zero Dawn that was making the crosshair appear very close to your eyes, instead of placing it at the correct depth in the world. I'm aware about the binoculars issue in Ghostwire: Tokyo; I will try to fix it too, but for the moment you can play that segment (and in general...