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HL2 Black Screen Issue Resolved
I was having the following issue in HL2, the menus would show up but only the menus everything else rendered black. I think I saw the solution posted in another thread earlier and tried it out tonight...
I had black screen too - what i did
put the rift into extended mode open steam windowed - then I made the rift the main display on the pc * - steam will be on your monitor and the rift will looked jacked but never mind this - on steam launch steamVR (from view) then big picture will show up on the rift - go to library and launch halflife2 in vr - sometimes the game will be in black screen right in the beginning but will change - you will see a flat blurr plane for a few seconds and the text i still have not figured out how to fix it on the pause menu but it works it's just a little blurry** - now start the game -***
* Before I start anything sometimes I have to put the pc monitor to extend to rift, then switch It to rift main display only sometimes and I dont know why
** If you want to read the menu better to tinker - once you make It into vr mode In game (you have to do this for It to work), right click on your screen and switch pc monitor back to main to see the menu on screen clear and the rift is still tracking so when your done just switch screen back to rift and play on
*** - In the options you need to enable the gamepad for the controller to work also I had speed up vertical on the mouse and slow down the horizontal - you need to play with these to get the best "normal" walkaround to fast and you will get sick
I have all the settings maxed and its running nice,I don't have Fame Rate for you yet - some noticeable blur and blacking but really not bad at all
I hope the next update adds direct to rift from clicking Steamvr no messing with displays
I"m running - Win 7-64 - intel2 Quad Cpu:Q8400@2.66 - 8gbram - GTX480
not a developer just a gamer that tinkers
put the rift into extended mode open steam windowed - then I made the rift the main display on the pc * - steam will be on your monitor and the rift will looked jacked but never mind this - on steam launch steamVR (from view) then big picture will show up on the rift - go to library and launch halflife2 in vr - sometimes the game will be in black screen right in the beginning but will change - you will see a flat blurr plane for a few seconds and the text i still have not figured out how to fix it on the pause menu but it works it's just a little blurry** - now start the game -***
* Before I start anything sometimes I have to put the pc monitor to extend to rift, then switch It to rift main display only sometimes and I dont know why
** If you want to read the menu better to tinker - once you make It into vr mode In game (you have to do this for It to work), right click on your screen and switch pc monitor back to main to see the menu on screen clear and the rift is still tracking so when your done just switch screen back to rift and play on
*** - In the options you need to enable the gamepad for the controller to work also I had speed up vertical on the mouse and slow down the horizontal - you need to play with these to get the best "normal" walkaround to fast and you will get sick
I have all the settings maxed and its running nice,I don't have Fame Rate for you yet - some noticeable blur and blacking but really not bad at all
I hope the next update adds direct to rift from clicking Steamvr no messing with displays
I"m running - Win 7-64 - intel2 Quad Cpu:Q8400@2.66 - 8gbram - GTX480
not a developer just a gamer that tinkers