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FlatOut 2 VR 1.3

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@Saikava Saikava released this 22 Oct 19:41
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v1.3
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New

  • No more silent waits for the VR runtime: when SteamVR (or Virtual Desktop, or another runtime) takes more than a few seconds to start, a window says what the game is waiting for and closes by itself once the runtime is ready. When the runtime fails, the window says why and what to do, with Try again, Play without VR and Quit. Before, the game just stood still with nothing on the screen.
  • 4 GB of memory for the game: FlatOut2.exe, as released, may use only 2 GB of memory, which it shares with the VR runtime and the graphics driver. With VR, some larger tracks ran out of it and the game stood still at the loading screen (seen with SteamVR on a Valve Index). Now the mod sets the "large address aware" flag in FlatOut2.exe when the game starts (the original is kept as FlatOut2.exe.2GB.bak) and starts the game once more with 4 GB. A window appears only when the file cannot be changed, e.g. when the game's folder is not writable. LargeAddressAware=0 in scripts\FO2VR.ini leaves FlatOut2.exe as it is.

Good to know

  • The first start after updating restarts the game once: that is the mod setting the flag. Launched from Steam, Steam may then show the game as closed, and its overlay may be missing for that session.
  • If Steam (Verify integrity) or GOG Galaxy restores FlatOut2.exe, the mod sets the flag again at the next start.
  • If SteamVR hangs while it starts (its window never shows the headset), close it and start it from Steam: when Virtual Desktop's Streamer runs as administrator, the SteamVR it starts may not come up. See Troubleshooting in the README.

Install: extract the zip into the game folder (where FlatOut2.exe is), pick the runtime in scripts\FO2VR.ini (steamvr by default; Virtual Desktop users: the VDXR path given in the ini), start the runtime, then the game. Works with the GOG and the Steam release. See the README for settings and controls.

Updating from 1.2: replacing scripts\FO2VR.asi is enough (the new setting is on without a line in your FO2VR.ini). Extracting the whole zip also replaces scripts\FO2VR.ini, and with it your settings.

Contains the mod (scripts\), Ultimate ASI Loader 9.7.4 (winmm.dll) and DXVK 3.1 (d3d9.dll, 32-bit), with their licenses (the same as in 1.2).

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