Venture 0.1.4.1

Venture 0.1.4.1

New

• Settings > Runtime > Game language: pick the language games see as the system language. Useful for games without their own language option, like Asgard's Wrath 2. "System language" keeps following Windows or Linux.

Fixed

• Ghost Giant and other 32-bit games could load forever on some PCs. On those runs Venture fell back to a much slower memory mode; it now keeps the fast one.
• The Climb 2 looked cross-eyed, and appeared as a flat panel on Virtual Desktop. Thanks to Saikava.
• ForeVR Darts crashed at start. Thanks to Saikava.
• The 7th Guest VR crashed at start with recent NVIDIA drivers while Steam was running.
• Robo Recall took a very long time to load levels.
• Double-clicking Play could quit the game right after it started (Quit game takes the Play button's place). Quit game now ignores clicks for 3 seconds after a launch.
• Venture could say a game was missing an expansion file (.obb) when it had stopped for another reason. It now only says so when the game itself reports the missing file.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report.

Everything from 0.1.4 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.4.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.4

Venture 0.1.4

Fixed

• Batman: Arkham Shadow showed a black view with music on SteamVR when no room setup had been done (seen on a WMR headset). Venture now gives games a level floor and view, as a Quest does.
• Batman: Arkham Shadow closed at start on the Oculus runtime with an AMD GPU.
• The Simpsons: Hit & Run VR and Pinball FX crashed at start on AMD GPUs.
• The Climb crashed after loading, and The Climb 2 was treated as running on a Quest 1.
• Epic Roller Coasters closed with "Failed to create swapchain" on SteamVR with AMD GPUs.
• Ninja Legends stopped at launch.
• Ghost Giant wouldn't launch.
• World Of Mechs showed one frame, then went black.
• Path of the Warrior closed right after starting.
• Games built with Unity, Unreal and the Oculus SDK could stop when they reached one of 152 Android functions Venture didn't have yet. All of them now exist.
• Linux: Upload debug report failed with a certificate error, because dpaste.com's certificate now chains to a new Let's Encrypt root. It works again with your system's normal certificates.
• Linux (Bazzite and other rpm-ostree systems): debug reports now hide your home folder path completely (it showed up as /var~).

Diagnostics

• If a debug report can't be uploaded, Venture now tells you where the report file was saved, so you can attach it to your issue.
• If a game is missing an expansion file (.obb), Venture names it.
• If a game quits because it needs a Meta sign-in or a real headset's device check, Venture says so instead of closing silently.
• If your GPU's Vulkan driver is broken or incomplete, the debug report says to reinstall it.
• If a game hangs, its log now names the system call it is waiting in.

Known issues

• 32-bit games built for OpenXR (recent Unity versions) still don't start: Venture translates OpenXR and Vulkan only for 64-bit games. Older 32-bit games that use the Oculus Mobile SDK are not affected.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report.

Everything from 0.1.3.1 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.3.1

Venture 0.1.3.1

Fixed

• First Steps closed right after starting: its avatar system needs a part of the Quest's system software. Venture now provides a stand-in, so games using it start; avatars don't appear.
• Guitar Gods crashed when it checked whether the microphone was in use.
• Prey VR didn't start on SteamVR: it requires an OpenXR extension that SteamVR doesn't provide. Venture now provides it on every runtime.
• Sound crackled on Linux (PipeWire) in games like Resident Evil 4: Venture now uses larger audio buffers on Linux.

Diagnostics

• If a game hangs before showing anything, or is closed before it does, its log now records where the game was stuck.
• Logs now record audio dropouts, so a debug report shows whether crackling came from starved audio.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report.

Everything from 0.1.3 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.3.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.3

Venture 0.1.3

Fixed

• Batman: Arkham Shadow stutters much less when loading new areas. The longest pauses are about half as long, and the total time spent stalled during a load is down by about two thirds.
• Hellsweeper VR showed a black screen on GPUs with 8 GB or less: its textures ran the GPU out of memory. On GPUs without native support for the game's texture format, textures are now stored compressed (converted once and cached) and use a fraction of the memory.
• Epic Roller Coasters stopped at launch on the Oculus runtime with an AMD GPU.
• Dreadhalls stopped at launch on a missing ARM32 function.
• The Climb stopped at launch on a missing Android function.
• Stremio couldn't be installed: the conversion of its Java stopped on classes the game ships for Blu-ray playback.
• Bogo's avatar loader stopped on a missing Android function.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report.

Everything from 0.1.2.3 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.2.3

Venture 0.1.2.3

Fixed

• Resident Evil 4 froze when loading some areas. The game decompresses data on a stack it creates itself, and Venture stopped the game thread when a call was made on that stack.
• Supernatural (both versions) stayed on a black screen. The game's crash reporter needed an Android function Venture didn't have, and the game's startup stopped when it failed.
• Pickleball One stopped at launch on a missing Android function (a Google Play services lookup).
• Prey VR stopped at launch. It requires the passthrough extension, which Venture now offers; passthrough itself is reported as unavailable.
• Hellsweeper VR stopped at launch because the game ships a desktop library among its Android ones. Venture now keeps such a library and continues, as Android does.

Other changes

• Dropdown labels in the launcher are centered.
• When a game's Java can't be converted, the debug report now says why.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report.

Everything from 0.1.2.2 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.2.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.2.2

Fixed

• Pickleball One stopped at launch after the 0.1.2.1 fix (Firebase needed Android's StrictMode policies).
• Syberia VR: videos did not play. Games that decode video into an image reader (AImageReader) now get the frames.
• Dread Halls stopped at launch (a missing Android permission lookup).
• Importing saves from a headset no longer fails when the headset refuses to send one file (seen with Asgard's Wrath 2). That file is skipped and noted in the log, and the rest of the saves are imported.

Better crash and freeze reports

• If one of a game's threads stops on a Venture error, the game now closes and the debug report names the error and where the game was. Before, the thread just disappeared and the game froze with nothing in the log (seen in Resident Evil 4).
• The freeze recorder now captures every freeze in a session (up to four), not only the first.
• Debug reports now log GPU memory use against the driver's budget, including at each freeze.

If a game crashes or freezes on this version, please send a new debug report: after a crash, use Report issue on the game's page; after a freeze, use Settings > Upload debug report. The extra detail is what we need to fix it.

Everything from 0.1.2.1 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.2.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.2.1

Fixed

• Pickleball One and other games using Firebase stopped at launch on Windows. Android allows characters in file names that Windows does not (such as :); Venture now stores those names in a Windows-safe form and shows them to the game as written.

Everything from 0.1.2 is included.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.2

Fixed

• The Climb stopped at launch.
• IMMERROCK stopped at launch.
• TRIANGLE STRATEGY stopped at start.
• A Fisherman's Tale, A Fisherman's Tale 2, Ghostbusters, Maestro, Journey to Foundation and other games that bundle Google Play Services stopped at "APK conversion/verification failed". Code the game never uses no longer blocks it.
• PreyVR and other games using curved (cylinder) panels stopped at launch on SteamVR. On runtimes without curved panels, Venture now draws them curved itself.
• Gorilla Royale closed when joining a room (its voice chat).
• Linux: audio threads keep their raised priority instead of asking the desktop again on every sound start. The desktop's limits could leave later audio at normal priority, a likely cause of crackling and wavering cutscene audio (Resident Evil 4 on Monado).
• Split Second crashed at start on SteamVR with AMD GPUs.
• Assassin's Creed Nexus and other space-warp games had their depth refused on Virtual Desktop with AMD GPUs.
• Importing from the headset no longer fails "right at the end" on a save or cache file the headset changes or can't read (Resident Evil 4, Asgard's Wrath 2). That file is skipped and named in the log.
• Library: "Meta could not list your games right now (HTTP 500)" on large libraries. When Meta keeps failing the full list, Venture now lists your library the way a Quest does, a page at a time.
• Pickleball One stopped at start.
• Call of the Sea VR stopped at launch.
• Steam Frame: holding both sticks did not open the game menu unless "Menu from both stick clicks" was set to Always. Automatic now turns it on in every game that does not use stick clicks itself (the game menu is also on the left View button).
• Batman: Arkham Shadow stopped at its in-game videos (the endgame dream sequences). Games that play video through ExoPlayer, Android's common video player, now play it.
• Space Pirate Trainer DX: voice chat and fragment fixes (community contribution).
• CitraVR gets further at start: its database, background work, notifications and graphics driver loader now start. Its menus use Android's full 2D interface, which Venture does not have yet, so it does not reach a game.

New

• Downloads at once (Settings > Library): download up to four games side by side on a fast connection. Off by default (one at a time).
• Save data on the Import page: bring a game's saves from a Quest or a folder.
• Search in the headset import list when it is long.
• Clearer description of the Menu from both stick clicks setting.
• Saves and mods on the game page: import save data, and open the game's mods folder: a file there with the same name as one of the game's expansion files (OBB) replaces it at launch, without touching the installation. This is how Quest OBB mods such as RE4 VR Definitive Edition are installed.
• Games no longer leave old converted Java code and caches of earlier versions behind; uninstalling also removes the game's cache.

Debug reports

• A game that freezes (no new frame for 5 s while in focus) now records where every game thread is. If a game freezes for you, please send a debug report after it happens.
• A failed headset import says which file failed and why.
• The Simpsons: Hit & Run VR: the log now shows why its graphics context is refused.
• Linux: a Meta sign-in window that stops unexpectedly is reported as an error with its cause, not as "Sign-in cancelled".

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.1.1

Fixed

• Transparent edges of icons and cutouts showed as boxes with compressed textures (the 0.1.1 default), such as Batman: Arkham Shadow's combat icons. Compressed textures now keep fully transparent and fully opaque areas exact.
• Creed: Rise to Glory and other Unreal games said "No OBB found" when the games folder is on a different drive than Venture's data.
• Lambda1VR and Quake3Quest stopped right at launch.
• Asgard's Wrath 2 stuck at its first screen in languages other than English: games now download their language packs (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, ...) when they ask for them.
• "Games will appear in Steam after it restarts" no longer shows at every start when Steam already lists them.
• Add a game by store link (Library, under the sort menu) now also appears when Meta doesn't confirm your whole library.

Debug reports

• When a game stops inside Venture, the report now names the game code that made the failing call, and includes the previous run's Java errors. This helps with The Climb, which still stops at launch for some players: please send a new debug report from 0.1.1.1.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.

Venture 0.1.1

Fixes from your reports since 0.1.0.3, lower GPU memory use, and a few launcher additions.

New

• Update in place. Update installs the new release for you (Windows installer, AppImage), checked against the release's SHA256SUMS.
• Import save data in an installed game's menu: from a Quest over USB (developer mode) or from a copy of its Android/data folder. It overwrites the game's current saves in Venture after keeping them in a backup.
• Add a game you own by its store link when Meta cannot list your library, and installs and updates now check ownership one game at a time, so very large libraries work.
• Quit game button on a running game's page; the game saves and closes as on a Quest.
• Menu from both stick clicks (Settings > Runtime) for controllers whose menu button the PC runtime keeps for itself, such as Valve Index.
• Interface size (Settings > Appearance), with larger small text by default.
• Choose the drive a new game installs or imports to when you have libraries on several drives, in the same dialog as Add to Steam; Show game data opens a game's Android/data folder (for homebrew ports).

Fixed

• Meta sign-in failing with "HTTP 500" on accounts with many games. Sign-in no longer needs the library list; a library Meta cannot list is retried and explained, with Refresh library.
• "Unable to verify license" (Ghost Town and others) when Meta's library query fails.
• "locale not supported" when importing or connecting a headset with non-English letters in a folder on PATH.
• Black screen in Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice with SteamVR on AMD GPUs.
• Assassin's Creed Nexus freezing on SteamVR (Linux) when the game shows many panels.
• Games installed on a drive other than the system drive no longer copy their data files (several GB) into AppData at launch, which filled the system drive and stopped the game with "Could not save local file". Copies left there by 0.1.0 are removed.
• Batman: Arkham Shadow stuck at Begin New Game on imported copies. An import now also refuses a game file that was cut short before it reached the PC, and names it.
• Resident Evil 4 fades, Asgard's Wrath 2 at high resolution, Creed: Rise to Glory, Pinball FX, PILO on the Oculus runtime, IMMERROCK, Unreal movie playback (Galaxy's Edge intro), Puzzling Places downloads, homebrew ports such as Galaxy Quest.
• Linux: a closed KWallet now asks for its password at start instead of Venture showing you signed out; Meta sign-in popups and security checks, Flatpak sign-in and folder opening, NVIDIA without headless surfaces, OVRPlugin/Unreal titles.
• ACE stopping at launch ("Java application launch failed").
• The Climb stopping at launch, and The Climb 2 closing when its tutorial loads.
• Batman: Arkham Shadow language downloads (Options > Audio) not starting.
• Asgard's Wrath 2 stuck at its first screen in languages other than English: games now download their language packs (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, ...) when they ask for them.
• When SteamVR fails to start a game's session, Venture now says to restart SteamVR instead of showing an error code.
• A game that closes because it needs a Meta account now says so and how to sign in.
• An import that keeps the saves already on this PC now says so.
• Custom artwork you set in Steam for a Venture game is kept; adding another game no longer puts Venture's artwork back.
• "Games will appear in Steam after it restarts" no longer shows at every start when Steam already lists them.

Performance and memory

• Less GPU memory for every game that ships compressed textures (Batman: Arkham Shadow about 0.3 GiB less).
• Game textures are now stored compressed (BC7, a quarter of the size) by default, so games that filled 8-12 GB GPUs (Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Asgard's Wrath 2) fit. Compress textures in Settings > Runtime: Always (default), Automatic (only once a chosen share of GPU memory is in use, 50% by default) or Off.

Debug reports

One-click reports now include headset, eye field of view, audio device, display rate, the game's asset files and the Android classes it needs, plus where a crash happened (the driver or layer it was in), the Java errors a game ran into, and how GPU memory grew while playing.

Install

Windows 10/11: download Venture-windows64-setup.exe and run it.

Linux: pick the file for your distribution.

Distribution	Install
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt install ./Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz and run venture

Then: start your headset's runtime (SteamVR or Quest Link on Windows, Monado on Linux), open Venture, sign in with Meta, choose Install on a game and press Play.