Huge kudos to Cas from Cas and Chary VR for the spectacular video that you can see above! It even comes with a quick setup tutorial at the end. Don't forget to subscribe to their channel :-)
Several of you guys guessed the new title correctly, while others were wide off the mark... But the special ENIGMA award goes t...
2021-12-18 12:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, sorry for the radio silence of these last few days! I was actually about to package and release the new mod at the beginning of the week, when it suddenly dawned on me that maybe there was a way to implement a first person camera for the game. (So yes, as some of you have already guessed, it is originally a third-person title.)
I hate last-minute ideas, because they inevitably bring crunch and a huge risk of failure and disappointment. Yet, there was zero chance that I could ...
2021-12-16 21:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the most sober quotes from the video:
"I've been doing donuts on this roundabout—and people—for about five minutes now... excellent fun."
"Can I... dispose of this body in the river? Let's just feed him to the—ha! That is a crocodile in there!"
"But to be honest with you, in VR, he's got some incredibly realistic nipples."
2021-11-14 17:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as I promised some time ago, now that the Mafia trilogy is done I'd love to hear your voice: where should we go next?
During the ~6 months since the Patreon started, I collected suggestions from many of you, and I have to say that they're all over the place :-) No clear winner has emerged, so let's do a poll!
Also, to complicate the matters a bit, I have two games still in the pipeline (I won't spoil the surprise, but if I do manage to convert them to VR they will be simply AW...
2021-11-12 08:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the Mafia Trilogy is now fully converted to VR!!! What a wild ride it's been []-)
Mafia III DE on Steam - Update: All issues with the Steam version of the game should be resolved in release 2.1.2 (attached to the bottom of this post)! To check that you have the latest version, hover your mouse on the dxgi.dll file in the game folder: it must be at least version 2.1.2.2596. If you get a lower version number, please download the attach...
2021-11-07 11:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A brief post just to announce that Mafia III: Definitive Edition is looking good, and unless something unexpected comes up, it should be ready for release in a few days.
As I was saying in comments to previous posts, it is a more divisive, love-it-or-hate-it kind of game. The gameplay is probably not very inspired and the mission structure is quite repetitive, but the story is excellent and it really brings you into the world. The map size is huge, comparable with GTA V (see 2021-11-01 19:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, thanks to dear friend and VR connoisseur Beardo Benjo, I can open the post with a fun video (it has major SPOILERS though, beware if you never played the game before!) Don't forget to subscribe to his channel if you want more VR gaming news delivered with his trademark sense of humor!!
Quick setup: it's the usual drill. Install Mafia II: Definitive Edition and run it at least once, to make it generate the folders for your user profile. Quit the ga...
2021-10-18 17:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, I know that you're all busy playing Lone Echo II, but here comes another offer you can't refuse.
My new mod for Mafia II: Definitive Edition is almost ready, and I'm really happy with how it's coming out. Though I say so myself, I believe it might be my best work yet!
Beside support for the new game, the next release is going to introduce a major change that will make your VR experience even more R.E.A.L. :-D
Stay tuned and have fun, it's a good month for VR lover...
2021-10-17 08:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostA brief post to cover two issues that are coming up with some frequency.
Mod installation: recently I made a lot of updates to the mod, and I didn't have any time left to keep the README current. So, it might be difficult for users to find information about the correct installation procedure. It's actually very simple, just three steps:
1. if this is your first time playing the game, run it (either Mafia: DE or RDR2) in 2D at least once without the mod, to ha...
You asked for it, I wanted it, the game needed it... here it is: on-foot first person camera for Mafia: Definitive Edition :-)
This release has so much new stuff that the post will be about a mile long, so to lighten things up I also embedded a fun video above. It's not yet for the first person version, but it's so hilarious that I just had to post it. Ian's a barrel of laughs!
Who will be the first to find out what important detail is missing in this Mafia:DE screenshot?
2021-09-23 12:41:24 +0000 UTC View Post
As teased, here is a new release of my R.E.A.L. mod, adding support for Mafia: Definitive Edition!
And a special gift: VR YouTuber extraordinaire Beardo Benjo has agreed to do a preview video of the mod!! You can watch it above, and don't forget to subscribe to his channel for more fun with VR and irreverent beard humor :-)
The other two games in the Trilogy will come later; I will probably need at lea...
Hey guys, hope you're all having a nice summer! I know it's quite hard to stay positive in such trying times, with this pandemic that never seems to abate, but when everything feels like it's just too much to handle we can at least take some solace in VR :-)
It's been almost a couple of weeks since my latest post, so I wanted to give you a quick pulse of where things stand. As those of you who have been following me from the beginning know, the new VR modding framework that I created fo...
2021-08-25 20:19:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe new, unannounced update to RDR2 that came out yesterday has made the mod unusable for some Patrons. This release is a hotfix that solves the issue. I took the opportunity to make my automatic game settings detection code more robust, so hopefully it should keep working if/when RDR2 gets updated again.
For those of you who bought the game from Epic or directly from Rockstar (i.e., not from Steam), let me remind you that the mod will only work correctly if your Windows account has wri...
2021-08-12 09:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostA few Patrons who have streaming utilities installed on their systems (like OBS Studio, Twitch Studio, etc.) found that RDR2 was behaving erratically in VR. We investigated the problem together, and as it turns out, those utilities silently create a D3D11 device inside every game they detect, even if you are not using them at the moment. Talk about intrusive behavior. This is especially bad because Vulkan has a specific mechanism designed for this kind of "helpers", and it certainly ...
2021-08-06 18:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for responding to my hardware poll. Although many people haven't voted yet, it looks like Team red is stabilizing around 8-9%.
I have been trying my best to understand and solve the freezing issues that have been ruining the game experience in VR for some of you. For those who are interested, I'll give more in-depth details in the "Technical discussion" section below, but let's start w...
2021-08-02 14:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostI am almost ready to put out a release candidate that should mitigate the freezing problems that some of you are experiencing, particularly after the DLSS update. It should be no more than a day or two away.
In the meantime, I would like to have a quick hardware poll to help me allocate development resources in the future. I already know from the Steam hardware survey that only about 15% of gamers use AMD video cards, but I suspect that number may be even lower when restricting the samp...
2021-08-01 17:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi! As I kind of expected, version 1.4.0 was a bumpy ride. Many people seem to have the game running correctly in VR, with DLSS and all the bells and whistles. However, others are reporting a few different problems, some of them blocking issues, and of course I want to solve all of them and have the mod work at its best for everybody.
This 1.4.1 version is just a debug release. It brings nothing new to the table, so if your game is running fine you don't need to upgrade. When all the pr...
2021-07-27 17:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Oh yes, I already went and spoiled some of the good news in the post title: the mod is working again, having fixed the compatibility problems with the latest 1.0.1436.25 build of RDR2, and not just that: DLSS is now fully usable in VR! Of course, if you had downgraded the game to keep playing during the last few days, you'll need to let it update again to get the new features. The bad news is that, due in part to the added complexity...
2021-07-25 16:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi! A short post to tell you that I'm making good progress on fixing the mod for the "update that broke all the things". I have an internal build where VR works again (and better than before: it's now possible to change graphics settings on the fly without crashing the game!), and DLSS kind of works too, although it exhibits slightly worse haloing and shimmering than TAA used to have in Stereo before I fixed it in 1.3.0-1.3.1.
I just wanted to have a quick poll to help me decide what to...
2021-07-20 20:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostAs you know, the DLSS update to RDR2 has broken all mods based on ScriptHookRDR2, including mine. However, it's possible to keep playing in R.E.A.L. VR by downgrading the game, or by avoiding the update. Whichever method you use, after the downgrade you might need to run RealConfig.bat again, because the system.xml format has changed a bit in the latest build.
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Jul 13: The DLSS update has landed, and it's as bad as it could be. Scenario 3. Thanks a bunch, Rockstar. Script Hook RDR2 (a fundamental component of all mods) is not even being loaded. They probably blocked it explicitly, because it doesn't die with an error message or write anything to the log: it just doesn't load anymore. So, we must first wait for Alexander Blade to update his Script Hook RDR2. He usually only takes a few days, b...
2021-07-12 07:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a hotfix release for a problem that was affecting some users with the previous 1.3.0: having "Fix TAA for Stereo" activated was causing severe frame rate drops, especially in town streets when several NPCs were in view.
Huge thanks to many Patrons (above all Ed Truthan, Clint, Miguel Augusto and others) who helped me narrow down the issue with their tireless testing and detailed reports. It turns out that recent NVIDIA drivers introduced a silent, undocumented change that could ...
2021-07-08 20:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I already gave away the secret by putting a spoiler in the post title :-)
But it wasn't a big secret anyway because you knew what I was working on, as it was the most wanted improvement.
I have to admit that it was much harder than I first thought, and there were several days when the temptation to give up was almost too hard to resist, as it felt like chasing a mirage that always s...
2021-07-04 18:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends! As you probably all know, a week ago we got the final results from a poll to decide what I should be doing next. There was a hands-down winner, with an astounding 43% of the 219 people who voted: trying to fix the game's TAA implementation so that it would no longer shimmer when used with stereo rendering.
I have been working very hard on the problem, and although I've made some ...
2021-06-19 11:38:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'm making this post public (as opposed to Patrons-only) so that new users can make an informed decision before they possibly join my Patreon.
My aim with this series of R.E.A.L. VR mods has always been to stay as faithful as possible to the original spirit and gameplay of the games that I port to VR. I want to enable other people (and myself!) to experience those beautiful virtual worlds from the inside, as if you were really there, but at the same time I strive to keep intact the narr...
2021-06-07 08:41:26 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the support dust storm is finally beginning to settle down, I would really like to hear your opinion about what I should be doing next.
The different choices do not have the same impact in terms of complexity and time needed to deliver, so I put [small | medium | large] effort next to them to have some context, although in modding it is very hard to make reliable time estimates: what looks like a small undertaking might very well turn out to be impossible in the end du...
2021-06-06 08:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostI know that many of you guys can only play on weekends, so I did my best to publish this new release in time for you to enjoy!
There are two improvements in this version. One is minor, so let's get it out of the way right now: I fixed the corner case where starting the game with monoscopic rendering would lead to the crosshair being drawn at the wrong depth, thus appearing double. Most users play in stereoscopic 3D, so they didn't notice the issue, and others had already found a workaro...
2021-06-05 12:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, I want to thank you all for the incredible support and enthusiasm! I am so happy that a tightly knit community of users has already formed around the mod, and it's wonderful to see Patrons helping each other with suggestions, custom settings, troubleshooting... Also, the discussion has been very civil and friendly, an amazing departure from the usual standards of the Web at large where people sometimes don't show the best side of themselves ;-)
Another positive note (which brings...
2021-06-02 08:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostWith this release, gamepad activation and navigation of the mod overlay should finally be fixed for all users. It turns out that Steam's own hooking of the controller was interfering.
Another small change: RealConfig.bat will now create the Settings folder in case it doesn't already exist. That should solve the issue where you needed to have run the game at least once after the first installation in order for the mod settings to be effective.
v1.0.3: 2021-06-01 17:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post