Oculus VR Crash

[fishdbaz]

Man it's been a while since I've posted on these forums...

Anyways, I just got myself an Oculus Rift and was all hyped up to play Half-Life 2 on it. So I activated the Steampipe beta, added in '-vr' to the launch options, started up the game and... Nothing. There's a brief white flash as the game opens and then immediately closes.

The Rift itself is fine - I've played other games with it and it works perfectly. Half-Life 2 works perfectly too, if '-vr' is not used. I tried using the Rift with Team Fortress 2 and encountered the exact same white screen result.

I'm running on Windows 8 BTW.

Any ideas, guys?

 

[Krynn72]

There's probably a better forum to ask this in than VT.net. You'd probably want an Oculus Rift forum over a halflife forum since most hl2 players don't have a Rift, but probably most rift owners are hl2 players.

 

[FoB_Ed]

Didn't know you could actually get the Rift yet. How is it?​

 

[fishdbaz]

I've posted in other forums already - I just figured I'd have better luck if I tried every possible option, however dubious.

The Rift is amazing! I was unsure of it after my first experience. It was neat but seemed lacking... I then realized I had the resolution messed up and tried again with a virtual theater demo. It was crazy: I felt like I was actually there. I've yet to try a real game with it yet however, so I don't know yet how well it'll do in that respect.

 

[Omnomnick]

Pi Mu Rho owns an Oculus Rift dev kit. He might be able to help you if the problem you're having is a common one.

Also hello, welcome back, etc.

 

[fishdbaz]

I've solved it. The answer was a headslapper: you have to start the game with the Rift plugged into the HDMI outlet. If a regular monitor is plugged in instead then the game crashes. I've been swapping wires while in-game for everything else, so I didn't see this coming.