Just got my Rift a few days ago, never tried ANY kind of VR before this and I gotta say it's blowing my mind everytime I put it on. I mean I thought it would probably be pretty cool but I'm nothing short of amazed on how incredibly real it feels!
Anyways while there are a few cool games on on the Oculus store there's alot of other games I'd like to try and play on my Rift so I did some research and found vorpX. Is this any good? I was thinking of buying it to play some of the other games I have on my Rift but I don't wanna spend time on it if its a poor experience.
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this software and if its even worth it to try using it?
right first off the bat ... I bought vorpx .... my advise to you ...DONT BUY IT ! I persistently kept getting "invalid license code messages eveytime I attempted to use it ! and no matter how many emails I fired off to them for assistance I received the same automated email back ! ...that's my experience with them ... other peeps experience may differ ...I personally would look elsewhere ... there are other similar pieces of software out there ..
I'm sorry you had a bad customer service experience, but since I know for a fact it isnt a hoax and that many others have used it I'm more interested in the experience of using it itself.
I have a Deepoon E2 which works in DK2 mode I got VorpX and yes it works with all supported games and sometimes unsupported games you need to play around with some settings but it's pretty cool! tried a bit of Fallout 4 with it and it's great, just remember to adjust the FOV to your liking
I bought it a long time ago, never had any license issues. My problem is I haven't found a single game that looks right. I tried Fallout 4, CoD, WOW etc... Its so bad I never use it. I say wait for the games to officially support VR. If I could get a refund I would.
My experience with VorpX is that it does what it says, but it can take a lot of fiddling to get the settings right for any particular game. Although it has profiles for games, I never found they set the FOV right for me (which is weird, because no Rift game/experience ever had a 'wrong' FOV). When you do get the settings right, it can (literally) add a whole new level of immersion to a big, much loved old game 🙂
However, because of the way VorpX has to work, it can have rather more than twice the rendering load of the original game when run in full 3D mode (VorpX 'geometry' rendering), so running a recent game may need a very beefy PC and to have the detail settings turned down. Even if running in one of VorpX's faster, less immersive modes a mid-range PC might struggle to keep up the high framerates needed for a recent title.
Another issue, which varies from game to game, is how well the controls work. In lots of games VorpX has to map head movements to mouselook, and a lot of games don't allow mouselook at the same time as Xbox Controller use, so VorpX has to map the controller to keyboard/mouse control. That can be a bit clunky.
And (finally) VorpX can't work miracles. Games not designed for VR, especially first-person free-movement games (shooters and the like) will really test your tolerance for VR motion sickness. There will also be graphical glitches due to some elements in games rendering without depth information, or developers using false perspective to make small, close elements seem bigger and further than they are actually rendered by the game engine.
In summary, VorpX is cool, and from what I've read it is currently the most complete package for cramming old non-VR games through a VR display. Other solutions do exist, and for particular games they may do a better job (I can't be sure because I haven't researched that extensively, but Vireio does have its supporters, as does TriDef). Whether VorpX is worth the asking price, given its unavoidable limitations, is a matter of personal choice.
Thanks for the replies I decided to invest in it for fun since... fuck it. I'm so mindblown by the Oculus ive decided to just throw money at it like a crazy person.
AndyW1384 do you have any games you recommend trying through vorpx? Perhaps some games you know work really well with it?
Thanks for the replies I decided to invest in it for fun since... fuck it. I'm so mindblown by the Oculus ive decided to just throw money at it like a crazy person.
AndyW1384 do you have any games you recommend trying through vorpx? Perhaps some games you know work really well with it?
Alien Isolation, Borderlands series, Fallout series, and if you have some money to spare, go ahead and get The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, it supports VR and do not need VorpX and this game has truly amazing graphics
AndyW1384 do you have any games you recommend trying through vorpx? Perhaps some games you know work really well with it?
I haven't had time to do a lot of checking (as my Rift has had be RMA'd), but I'd say Fallout 4 is well worth trying, and Aliens: Colonial Marines (if you're not put off by it's reputation) is looking pretty nice in VR. I understand that VorpX has also had a lot of attention put into its Skyrim support, so if you have that it'd be well worth giving it a go, especially as there are quite a few mods (like 'Enhanced Camera', which enables a body visible in first-person) which can enhance VR.
But probably start off trying out games you already own (if supported by VorpX) so you get a feel for what you can achieve before you start buying all the old games :smiley:
The VorpX forums are also a good place to find other people's suggestions for tweaking games to work better in VR. I believe there's a new version of VorpX coming out in a few weeks which may improve some things.
