OpenOVR Released - Play Steam VR Games Without SteamVR!!! :Oo

[Anonymous]

Details here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9i7s16/openovr_released_play_steamvr_games_without/

Haven't tried it myself yet because I'm unable to play Skyrim VR until my leg is fully healed but this is pretty huge if it means that we won't have performance issues playing VR games in our Steam libraries. 😮

[znixian]

Hello, dev here. Colour correction should be fixed in the latest update.

[Anonymous]

I confirm, it's gone! Thank you so much!

[YoLolo69]

Mmmm that's great news! Something I'll dream for long 🙂 Thanks @znixian 😛 I'm discovering the project right now on gitlab and will definitively test it with the few games using SteamVR on my system, and mainly the one I'm using the most and benchmark regularly : IL-2 Sturmovik. I'll report back asap.

[Anonymous]

Quick update on Skyrim: the few problems are now gone, the game totally works with that dll! (Some controls didn't work properly, but now everything works fine, at least on my side).

[Fazz]

@LuluViBritannia - How can it be fine if some of the controls don't work properly? What controls are you having problem with?

[YoLolo69]

@znixian , IL-2 Sturmovik don't work using OpenOVR. I tried both 32bits and 64bits. The latter make nothing, executable don't launch, no message, instantly exiting, I didn't even had the time to see the executable IL-2 appearing on the task list. I tried first 64bits as several dll appear to be 64bits on this directory...

With the 32 bits version I have an error message in French saying the application didn't succeed to run with an error :

On this screenshot "openvr_api - Copie.dll" is the original file, "openvr_api.dll" is your 32bits version and obviously "openvr_api_64bits.dll" is the previous test with your 64bits version (renamed to "openvr_api.dll" when tested).

I'm not able to find any log file openovr_log next to the executable 😞

I'm not familiar with gitlab, I'll try to report like described, thanks!

Edit : Ok just saw 2 others pilots reported same issues on gitlab with IL-2, I'll not create a new report 😉

[Zenbane]

Awesome! One step closer to being Steam-free. Love it.

I ran across another article about this today:

https://uploadvr.com/openvr-for-oculus-vr-lets-you-play-steamvr-games-through-oculus-runtime/

[Anonymous]

@RedRizia : I used past tense buddy ^^'. All the controls work with the latest release.

[znixian]

@YoLolo69 IL-2 should work fine as of now. Here's what you need to do:

1. Install the 64-bit DLL

2. Create a file named opencomposite.ini and put it next to the DLL

3. Write enableAudio=off into the aforementioned INI file to disable audio redirection (audio will still work fine, this disables a feature which sends audio to the Rift regardless of your default Windows audio device)

more details on the config file: https://gitlab.com/znixian/OpenOVR#configuration-file

[bigmike20vt]

I look forward to hearing people's experiences of this with IL2 🙂