Villagers654/Venture v0.1.2

Venture 0.1.2

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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.

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.