Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NeoTheFox

Quoting: WorMzyI was excited for Alyx, until it was confirmed that it is a VR exclusive. Hopefully poor sales will prompt them to revise that decision and release a more accessible version of the game.

It's not fair to call this game an "exclusive". It was simply made for VR, you just can't get the same level of control without it. Unless you want to somehow emulate 18 degrees of freedom on some other device, making the most sophisticated QWOP ever. The game design is just not going to be compatible with a flatscreen, nor you would have a good time trying to emulate VR on it - you are free to try however, since OpenVR emulators are easily downloadable.

I have nothing against VR, but I don't actually see why the controllers used for VR couldn't be used for ordinary 3d games on a screen. You have depth of field, you could have things on your hands and "reach" with them and manipulate stuff.
It's just that if you've spent enough to have those controllers and motion sensors to tell when they move and stuff, you might as well spend a bit more and have VR. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't work; the two things have no necessary connection.

The game design goes deeper than bare controls. Every VR controller has 6 degrees of freedom - it can move along XYZ in space and it can also rotate around X Y and Z. This alone you can pull off on a flatscreen, but your head is a whole another controller, that can also move in X Y Z and rotate along them. This means that the approach game designer takes when creating the level accounts for your head being constantly in motion and being able to look around. It would simply not be an enjoyable experience if you don't have another controller for your head, because you can't observe everything around you. This would mean that things that specifically designed to happen around you are going to happen without you knowing. Have you ever noticed how in most games any notable event happens right in front of you and some times the camera even locks on it? Well here it's not going to be made this way. You would have to constantly spin your screen around, and maybe something like OpenTrack would help, but I bet it's going to be a lot of "how am I dead" moments, just because you haven't seen something happen.
The developers always take that into account when creating levels, and while you can absolutely emulate any controller, you can't emulate the experience.

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Quoting: WorMzyI was excited for Alyx, until it was confirmed that it is a VR exclusive. Hopefully poor sales will prompt them to revise that decision and release a more accessible version of the game.

It's not fair to call this game an "exclusive". It was simply made for VR, you just can't get the same level of control without it. Unless you want to somehow emulate 18 degrees of freedom on some other device, making the most sophisticated QWOP ever. The game design is just not going to be compatible with a flatscreen, nor you would have a good time trying to emulate VR on it - you are free to try however, since OpenVR emulators are easily downloadable.

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Not unforeseen this time huh?

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I wanted to try it for a long time. I wonder how well it would work.

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Quoting: x_wingyou can activate ACO backend by setting RADV_PERFTEST=aco env variable.

Does it work if I put DRI_PRIME=1 RADV_PERFTEST=aco %command% in the launch option of the game?

Yes, that's exactly how you should enable it

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Woo! So far not bugs found, I already enabled ACO system-wide. I love seeing all the improvements, even with them being just 1-2% they still do add up.

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One of my favorite games recently, it gets the spirit of the early internet perfectly

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It's a very cool but also very short game that reminds me a lot of Penumbra games. If you like that kind of stuff you should really dump that under 1 hour time into it, the thing is solid

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Great job on that sliding preview, it really works well for side-by-side. You are very good at this Liam.

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Nice to see better controller support! They still have to fix that bug when the Steam Big Picture UI gets activated out-of-screen but prevents the game to read the gamepad. Right now it is solved by disabling the big picture UI for games started with a gamepad.

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