Hey everyone,
this month, we have prepared a new update for you with a number of new features and bug fixes that we hope you'll enjoy!
Physical hands
Your hands now collide with the environment and will no longer pass through walls. You can also tip over bottles and other objects. A short controller rumble will indicate when your hands make contact with something.
Please note: due to technical and gameplay reasons, the hands do not inflict damage on objects directly, and they do not collide with NPCs or enemies.
This feature can be disabled in the gameplay options if you prefer the hands the way they were before.
ProTubeVR support
Do yo own a ProVolver or ForceTube device from ProTubeVR? Then this update enables native support for them - enjoy your guns' recoil on a new level!
dxvk update and stutter fixes
HL2VR uses dxvk to translate the old D3D9 API (which is not supported by VR runtimes) to Vulkan. We have updated our version of dxvk to 1.10.3. In the process, we also discovered that the async patch we applied to avoid dreaded pipeline compilation stutters was too conservative in its decision when pipelines could be compiled in the background. As a consequence, it could still happen that the game's rendering would occasionally freeze for a short moment while waiting for graphics pipelines to be ready.
This wasn't really an issue on NVIDIA cards, but it did affect AMD cards more often. We have adjusted async compilation to be used more aggressively, and these situations should no longer occur.
So, if you've had issues with the game's rendering occiasionally stuttering or freezing during normal gameplay that didn't coincide with a level transition and could be observed in e.g. fpsVR as spikes in the CPU time, this update should hopefully resolve the issue.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed the SMG firing animation sometimes playing when in the weapon selection menu
- Added controller rumble effects when ejecting a magazine, grabbing a mag from the sholder, inserting a mag or grabbing a weapon with your second hand