OpenXR API Layers GUI

This is a tool for:

• detecting and fixing common problems with OpenXR API layers
• viewing information about OpenXR API layers
• enabling, disabling, adding, or removing OpenXR API layers
• re-ordering OpenXR API layers

There is no general way to detect errors with OpenXR API layers, so this tool is only able to detect problems that it knows about. If it doesn't show any errors, that just means that you have no particularly common problems, not necessarily that everything is set up correctly.

Getting Started

1. Download the latest version
2. Extract it somewhere handy
3. Read the README-Windows.txt you just extracted :)

While this project is designed to be easily portable, it currently only supports Windows - contributions are very welcome :).

FAQ

Why does OpenXR Explorer show the layers in a different order?

OpenXR Explorer v1.4 (latest as of 2024-04-04) and below show API layers in alphabetical order; OpenXR API Layers GUI instead shows API layers in their actual order.

Getting Help

If you have a problem with a specific layer, or aren't sure which order things should be in, contact the developers of the relevant layers.

If you have a problem with the tool, not games or specific API layers, help may be available from the community in my Discord.

Screenshots

Common errors are automatically detected:

Most errors can be automatically fixed; the 'Fix Them!' button in the screenshot produces this:

Detailed information about OpenXR API layers is also shown:

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

The majority of this project is licensed under the MIT license (below).

The images in the 'icons' subfolder may not be reused or distributed outside of this product.

A separate license for these images may be purchased from https://glyphicons.com

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Copyright (c) 2023 Fred Emmott.

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