Venture 0.2.4.1

Fixed

• Theater Elsewhere starts. Its sounds are WAV and MP3 files, which Venture couldn't open the way Android does, and the game crashed right at start (#139). Games that play MP3 or WAV sounds through Android's media APIs now get them like on a Quest.
• Aim XR starts. Its copy protection reads data right after releasing it, which works on a Quest, so Venture now keeps freed memory untouched for a moment the way Android does.
• Espire 2 starts (it stopped on a missing Android class right after launch).
• Lambda1VR finds Venture's VR runtime the way it finds a Quest's.
• Lethal Ape Redux no longer stops on missing Android drawing classes.
• Pickleball One and Starworn no longer stop on missing Android classes at start.
• CapuLegacy and other games on laptops with two GPUs no longer fail every launch when the GPU list changes while Venture reads it.
• Games no longer fail to start with "XrResult -32" when a broken OpenXR add-on is installed (for example a leftover ReShade layer). Venture skips only the broken add-on and keeps working ones loaded, and the debug report names it. A damaged add-on can also no longer freeze the start behind a hidden "Bad Image" Windows error.
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean text shows in games that rely on Android's system fonts, using the fonts installed on your PC. Chinese account names and game names show correctly in the launcher (#146).
• AMD Radeon: fixed a likely cause of games losing the graphics device in their first seconds (RUMBLE). Venture freed some of its texture data while the GPU could still be using it.
• Beat Saber and other Unity games no longer end in a quit timeout when the PC is busy while they close.
• Vacation Simulator: fixed speckled depth artifacts, at no cost to frame time.

Improved

• When the graphics device is lost, the debug report names the GPU and driver that failed, which matters on PCs with two GPUs.
• The debug report records the layers a game shows (menus, panels), which helps with reports of black or missing menus.

Everything from 0.2.4 is included.

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.