Venture 0.2.1

Venture 0.2.1

New

• Controls: a Quest button can be bound to several buttons on your controller, for example Stick click on both the stick and a bumper. Hover a row and press + to add one, or x to remove it.
• Library: hide titles you don't want to see (demos, trials, apps). Hover a card and press the eye button, or right-click it. Show hidden brings them back.
• Pavlov Shack can sign in through Steam (thanks TMMarkus).

Fixed

• Batman: Arkham Shadow: audio no longer crackles when the PC is busy, and the 8K dream sequences play every frame in time with the dialogue. Large videos now decode and convert on the GPU (Vulkan Video) when the game shows them in VR.
• The Climb no longer crashes at start on NVIDIA GPUs.
• First Contact: everything a few metres away is drawn with its textures and lighting again, not flat and dark.
• Shadow Point and other 32-bit games that stopped at launch on missing C++ runtime functions.
• The Climb 2 no longer crashes on later launches with Keep translated code on.
• Pavlov Shack: the Mod Browser search field no longer crashes the game (thanks TMMarkus).
• Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge no longer shows the game as a small panel in black on Virtual Desktop.
• Asgard's Wrath 2 and other games: the default menu button works on every runtime, including VDXR.
• Quest Pro controllers in Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 and other Unity games.
• Pinball FX VR starts on GPUs without Resizable BAR.
• Max Payne Mobile's VR port no longer stops at start on a missing Android class (issue 104).
• Launcher: Steam logo on Add to Steam, the texture compression warning appears every time you turn it down from Always (also per game), the library hover outline is no longer cut off, the Playing as and Mods rows no longer jitter, and the window buttons show the hand cursor.
• Controls: dots sit on the visible part of an input and only turn dotted when it is really hidden, and installed Touch models get their thumbrest line back.
• Pinball FX: updates replace the old version, and uninstalling removes every version.
• Puzzling Places downloads its puzzle packs.
• Scotland2-modded games (Beat Saber mods) launch a second time.
• GLES games that ask for RGBA8 swapchains (issue 100), memory protection on partly mapped ranges (issue 97), Virtua Cop and House of the Dead 4 quitting, Vampire Survivors VR asset packs.

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.

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-0.2.1-linux-x86_64.deb
Fedora	sudo dnf install ./Venture-0.2.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	sudo zypper install ./Venture-0.2.1-linux-x86_64.rpm
Arch	extract the .tar.gz below and run venture
Any distribution	chmod +x Venture-0.2.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it
Flatpak	flatpak install --user ./Venture-0.2.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Anything else	extract Venture-0.2.1-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.