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OpenXR Runtime
Hello, When trying to play any games on-air link which have worked perfectly in the past now won't work. It brings me to a black screen because my OpenXR needs to be set to active, in which case it'...
Anyway, back to the op's problem, OpenXR isn't needed for Airlink. Right now I've got OpenXR set to my WMR Reverb G2 headset, but Airlink with my Quest 2 is working fine.
OpenXR is only needed for OpenXR games, which are pretty rare at the moment.
Perhaps it's an admin thing. What these OpenXR settings do is just change a registry key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenXR\1 to point to a json file for WMR, SteamVR or Oculus. That may be failing if you aren't using an admin account.
So do you need openXR installed on your device to run these openXR games, because i have watched many videos on how to fix it and nobody said, that you need to have openXR installed
OpenXR doesn't really have a separate install. Meta, Valve and Microsoft have each made a version that now comes with their headset drivers. When an OpenXR game starts, it checks the windows registry to see which OpenXR provider is the one to use.
For example, the actual OpenXR implementation is located at:
Oculus: C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime\LibOVRRT64_1.dll
SteamVR: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\bin\vrclient_x64.dll
WMR: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsMixedReality.Runtime_112.2211.2002.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\x64\WinXrRuntime.dll
As long as you have up to date drivers for your headset, it should be good to go.
ok thanks for clearing that up for me, but i somehow still cant change oculus to the openXR runtime. Mabe its a simple solution and i just dont get it but as i said it doesnt work
