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This post is especially meant for people who have just joined my Patreon and are in need of orientation, although even old friends and aficionados might find it useful to have most of the essential information and the links gathered in one place.
Patreon allows for exactly 1 pinned post, so this will be the one that's always at the top of the list. I will try my best to keep it up to date with all the changes that I make to the mods and in sync with my other posts; please bear with me though, as it might take some time to get everything organized.
IMPORTANT:This post has now become obsolete after the release of AER v2. At some point in the future it will be archived and replaced by a new one; for the moment however please refer to my latest entry at https://www.patreon.com/posts/108541039 for the new information and the most recent download.
Where is the mod? Which games are supported?
I will keep publishing dedicated posts each time a new release comes out, but from now on, for convenience the latest version of the mod will always be attached here at the bottom too.
There is only one package to download, which supports all Patreon games. Currently there are 25 of them:
Atomic Heart
Cyberpunk 2077
Dark Souls: Remastered
Elden Ring (with its massive Shadow of the Erdtree DLC)
Far Cry 4
Far Cry 5
Far Cry 6
Far Cry New Dawn
Far Cry Primal
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Ghost of Tsushima
Ghostrunner
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Grounded
High On Life
Hogwarts Legacy
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Stray
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs 2 (new)
Of course you'll need a legit copy of the original game installed on your system in order to be able to play it in VR with my mod. Legal notes: all trademarks belong to their respective owners, and I am not affiliated in any way with the developers or publishers of the games.
Support for more titles will be coming in the next months!
I also have an older conversion for No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way that predates the Patreon and can be downloaded for free from my GitHub repository.
Additionally, my VR framework was able to connect to a few well-known games by Rockstar and 2K, which people loved to play in VR with the help of my mods, but following a DMCA notice issued by Take-Two (owner of Rockstar and 2K) they are no longer supported in any way. If you wish to play those games in VR, you can sign the petition, try to contact the publishers asking them to allow my mods, or if you're very patient you can wait for official ports.
Quick Setup instructions
Installation is very simple!
Make sure that the game was run flat (i.e., not in VR) at least once, so that it could create your user profile.
Unzip the archive attached at the bottom of this post into the game's .exe folder, being careful to preserve the folder structure. In other words, don't move anything around manually, don't flatten the folders, and don't put the mod into its own subfolder: RealConfig.bat must end up at the same level as the game main executable. If you are upgrading from a previous release you might be asked whether to overwrite existing files, in which case you should answer yes to all.
Then run RealConfig, which will automatically select graphics settings known to work correctly in VR and finish installing/configuring the mod for you. NOTE: if you omit this step or ignore any errors that the batch file reports back to you, the mod won't work correctly, even if you are just upgrading from a previous release.
Only for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, you'll also need to adjust the launch options to make the game use the DX11 renderer: more information here.
The original posts for the various games come with LOTS more information on how to get the most from your VR experience, and on how to troubleshoot your installation in case anything goes wrong. Each post is tagged with the games and categories it discusses, so it should be easy enough to find information.
Have fun!!!
How to temporarily deactivate my mods to play pancake
In case you ever want to play flat (boo!) you don't need to uninstall anything, much less to reinstall the whole game(s). With just a couple of simple steps you can easily prevent my mods from attaching and return to your original 2D graphics settings.
In Windows, open the folder where the main game executable is found, and make sure that you can see file extensions so you're not flying blind (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTah9YBG2Y if you don't know how to do that). Then:
for Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cyberpunk 2077, Dark Souls: Remastered, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Ghostrunner and Stray just rename dxgi.dll to dxgi_bak.dll
for Elden Ring instead you need to rename 3 files: dxgi.dll to dxgi_bak.dll, start_protected_game.exe to start_protected_game_bak.exe, and finally start_protected_game_ori.exe to start_protected_game.exe
That is enough to play flat. If you also want to restore the original graphics settings that you were using before you installed the R.E.A.L. VR mod, you can go to the folder where the game stores its setting and manually replace the current settings file with the one RealConfig saved for you:
for Horizon: Zero Dawn go to %UserProfile%\Documents\Horizon Zero Dawn\Saved Game\profile, then delete graphicsconfig.ini and rename graphicsconfig_ori.ini to graphicsconfig.ini
for Cyberpunk 2077 go to %LocalAppData%\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077, then delete UserSettings.json and rename UserSettings_ori.json to UserSettings.json
for Elden Ring go to %AppData%\EldenRing, then delete GraphicsConfig.xml and rename GraphicsConfig_ori.xml to GraphicsConfig.xml
for Dark Souls: Remastered go to %LocalAppData%\FromSoftware\NBGI\DarkSouls, then delete DarkSouls.ini and rename DarkSouls_ori.ini to DarkSouls.ini
for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Ghostrunner and Stray there is no need to restore anything manually, just use the game menus to change back the resolution to your favorite one
for Ghostwire: Tokyo go to %UserProfile%\Saved Games\TangoGameworks\GhostWire Tokyo (STEAM)\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor (or the equivalent path if you don't have the Steam version), then delete GameUserSettings.ini and rename GameUserSettings_ori.ini to GameUserSettings.ini
Hope this helps... but seriously, why go back to 2D when VR is so awesome?!?
As soon as you realize the error of your ways, to get into VR again just follow the Quick Setup steps outlined above as though you were installing the mod for the first time :-)