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You can play Elden Ring co-op in VR!

Dear friend and VR connoisseur extraordinaire Brian Tate (yes, "the" Brian from the wonderful Flatscreen to VR modding community) sent me a heads-up that I feel deserves its own post: you can now experience the incredible fantasy world of Elden Ring in VR together with your friends, thanks to the Seamless Co-op mod!

In the description of the video above you will find a brief tutorial. It mentions that f...

Steady 1st person cam, orange is the new blue

Hey friends! Just a couple of weeks have gone by since this beautiful community's first birthday, and I already have another amazing number to add to the list: 3,055 Patrons as of today!!!

Now, I know that on average one in three will cancel the pledge before the end of the month, so as June rolls in the number is likely to drop to around 2K again. But still, for a moment there we touched the stars []-)

Happy Birthday, community!

Today our Patreon turns 1! I just can't believe it.

It was May 15, 2021 when I put out the first post into the void of the Internet, unsure if anybody would be interested, and since then the ride has been so wild and breathtaking that it feels both like an age and just moments ago O_O

Some numbers for the growth of our virtual baby:

• 7 open-world modded games, not including GTA V and NOLF2 which are freely available on GitHub;
• 67 posts;
• 3,281 private m...
  2022-05-15 09:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Virtual tourism, slow motion and lots of 3rd-person combat from Ian!

And you don't want to miss his truly rigorous, in-depth analysis and exploration of, ahem, creature buttholes []-D

I'm sorry for the post flood these days, but I just finished watching the whole video and Ian has really outdone himself this time. I simply had to repost it here!

Almost a full hour of traveling around the Lands Between, giving a close inspection to Torrent's mane, comparing the relative merits of giants' and dragons' behinds, beating bad guys in slow motion after ta...

Elden Ring VR troubleshooting

This post is meant to be a collection of known issues and (when possible) solutions. Please add a comment here if you have trouble with the R.E.A.L. VR mod for Elden Ring or if you have found a fix that you want to share with the community. I'll keep updating the FAQ when new information comes up.

The main post for Elden Ring with full instructions on how to install and use the mod is here, and the current re...

Release 4.1.1

This is a maintenance release that brings some improvements and stability fixes.

The main post for the Elden Ring VR conversion, with full instructions for setup and gameplay, is here. Please always remember to run RealConfig after you update. A troubleshooting post will follow soon.

What's new in 4.1.1:

• Mounted telescopes (those you find alongside paths) should now be worki...
  2022-05-07 23:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post

R.E.A.L. VR mod for Elden Ring

Welcome to Virtual Reality, o ye tarnished!!!

Quick setup

Installation is very simple:

• make sure the game was run pancake at least once, so that it had a chance to create your user profile;
• unzip the mod archive attached at the bottom of this post into the "ELDEN RING\Game" folder where "eldenring.exe" is, without creating a subfolder and without moving any files around manually;
• lastly run RealConfig.bat, which will install the mod and a...
  2022-05-06 11:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post

RDR2 mod working again (Release 3.3.3)

Alexander Blade never fails to deliver the goods! I also had to make a small revision to my own R.E.A.L. VR mod as the Rockstar update had caused one of my hooks to fail.

Find the new release in attachment: it already comes with AB's updated Script Hook for convenience, so you won't have to make a separate download and patch things up manually. There is also a README file with quick setup directions for new users.

For you returning cowboys, remember that you always need to run Rea...

How to temporarily deactivate my mods to play pancake

Since the official game updates from Rockstar have been breaking VR play, a few of you have been asking how to keep playing flat while we wait for the replacement Script Hook libraries to drop.

You don't need to uninstall anything, much less to reinstall the game(s). With just a couple of simple steps you can easily prevent my mods from attaching and return to your original 2D graphics settings.

In Windows, open the folder where the main game executable is found, and make sure tha...

GTA V and RDR2 updated

A quick heads-up: Rockstar just released updates for both Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2. As is usually the case, the updates change everything around in the game executable, and that means that Script Hook (a base component for modding Rockstar games) needs to be revised by its author.

Alexander Blade, the mastermind behind Script Hook, typically takes a few days to release a new version of his tools. This time however he will have twice the fun, due to the synchronized r...

The Big One is coming!

In case you had any social lives left after Cyberpunk 2077, this is going to take care of that little problem for you. Modding it certainly took care of mine []-D

Soon! This will likely be a work-in-progress for quite some time, but I'll be doing my best to have a first playable version by the end of next week. Keep your VR legs in shape, because they're really going to be put to the test *_^

BIG kudos to Robert Zak from PC Gamer for his great article on the upcom...

The state of VR

Or, "You can put your hands down now, citizen" []-D

I was recently interviewed by Tomislav Bezmalinovic from German website https://mixed.de/ about my Patreon, VR modding and the state of VR gaming in general.

Tomislav's questions led to a rather interesting discussion, which of course had to be summarized in the published article, so I've decided to put the full transcript to the original interview here. I'm also opening t...

Solution finally found for RDR2 freezes/crashes!

Wow. After almost a year, I have stumbled upon a totally undocumented, hidden setting that actually appears to solve the asset-loading-related bug in Red Dead Redemption 2.

If you don't know what bug I'm talking about, please see this post.

Rockstar never acknowledged the issue, despite many people reporting it all over the Internet. It's not VR-specific, although the additional stress on the GPU caused...

Become a master of time in CP2077!

This update needs to be seen to be believed. And actually, it needs to be seen in VR, but since VR videos are not yet a thing I made a video on YouTube :-)

Video description:

• 0:00 Danger/awareness markers above enemies' heads now work in VR.
• 0:11 Those enemies look tough, better use my new trick...
• 0:26 Never since F.E.A.R., the wonderful 2005 game created by Craig Hubbard, was so much slow-flying debris seen in a video game!
• 0:49 ...
  2022-04-03 00:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Cyberpunk 2077 1.52 update broke some mods...

... but apparently it didn't break VR!!!

When I first wrote this post I was cautious because my log reported a few patching errors, which are normal after game updates but usually require intervention on my part.

Instead it looks like the patches that fail are no longer necessary with the 1.52 game version, and everything appears to work as it should :-)

As a few users have reported in the comments below, you might want to hold back a few days on the update because some othe...

3.2.2 (the "You guys are amazing" update)

I have incredible news, and it's all thanks to you guys! We made the world's Top 50 for the "Games" category O_O

https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/games

It's even more amazing because we're not talking about a "VR games" category, but games in general! That gives me great hopes that we're going to save VR yet, save it both from the publishers and studios that are too afraid to inves...

Full combat tutorial in VR

Release 3.2.0 of the R.E.A.L. mod for Cyberpunk 2077 (which will be attached to the next post today) brings many improvements to the VR conversion, and as announced it also introduces a new interaction model for the HUD.

Since there is so much new stuff, and they say a video is worth a thousand screenshots (or something like that, can't remember) I decided to record my realtime gameplay of the full combat simulation tutorial, which was one of the most problematic sections of the game in...

Mr. Scott! We need more power!

The new release is almost ready :-)

As promised, a brief introductory video to some of the most important new features:

• fine control over the rendering quality (pixels per degree)
• full support for raw/canted projections
• automatically finding the best custom resolution for your HMD.

Another video will follow soon, demonstrating all of the additional improvements during an actual gameplay session.

The footage was captured in real ...

Mega-update coming soon!

Status as of March 15: Adding to the list below, I came up with an idea for a novel user interaction mode that will allow you to read all the information in the HUD comfortably, even when it's headlocked (like during scans, remote hacks, looting, etc.), and no matter how small the center focus area on your headset is. I find it very intuitive and easy to get the hang of; it doesn't break the immersion in any way, and it completely changed my enjoyment of the more...