Calibrating Team Fortress 2 to generate the right Config Initial Run check and Enabling the Developer Consoleġ) Go to ‘Options’ from the main menu, select the ‘Keyboard’ then click the ‘Advanced’ button.Ģ) Make sure the ‘Enable Developer Console’ checkbox is ticked and click ‘OK’.ģ) Exit from the game. *** If the game complains about a particular Direct X mode, add: Just add ‘-dxlevel 90’ to your launch options (without single quotes) ** Credit to vesper73 from /r/oculus for that. Add ‘-vr’ (without single quotes) to the text box and click ‘OK’.ĥ) I now recommend closing Steam and reopening again to initiate any downloads and updates activating the beta has triggered.Ħ) Start ‘Half-Life 2’, you should now find it running in stereo 3d with the familiar pre-warping for each eye present. To do so:ġ) Open Steam and ensure you’re not in ‘Offline mode’.Ģ) Go to your game library and right click the ‘Half-Life 2’ entry then select ‘Properties’įrom the Makers of 'MYST', VR Puzzle Adventure 'Obduction' Goes Free on Epic July 15thģ) Click the ‘Betas’ tab and select ‘Beta – SteamPipe beta’ from the dropdown list.Ĥ) Click the ‘General’ tab and then the ‘Set launch options’ button. HL2 with Rift support is supplied as part of the SteamPipe beta branch and as such you’ll have to ‘opt in’ to receive this new version. Please do let me know if there any errors or anything you think should be in the guide. This guide, like this experimental mode, is very much a work in progress. Note: At present I have been unable to get Episode one of the story to work properly, Episode 2 and beyond seem to display as expected however. For easy reference we’ve summarised these steps as part of the article.

We posted earlier the basic steps supplied by Oculus on how to at least activate the experimental VR mode in Half-Life 2. However, getting the game working optimally is currently a minor challenge, for those of you unwilling to pour time into config tweaking we run through the basics. Compared with unofficial mods and hacks, the experience (once working correctly) is incredibly compelling and impressive. A couple of days ago, Oculus announced that Half-Life 2 now has official support for the Oculus Rift, albeit in an early beta form.

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