dubrovskiy-yevhen-stakelogic/vice-city-vr v0.5.2

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Standalone Quest parity on PC

• Ported the portable gameplay and rendering fixes from the current public
  standalone Quest source kit while retaining the PC renderer, OpenXR runtime,
  DLAA/FSR paths, and the newer PC cutscene presentation safeguards.
• Added the experimental immersive HUD preset: the minimap, player status and
  clock can live on real stereo wrist panels with independent hand, side,
  on-foot/car/bike placement and scale calibration. The Classic head-locked HUD
  remains the default, and every panel fails open to its Classic copy if its
  render target or tracked-hand anchor is unavailable.
• Shipped the maintainer-tested Immersive HUD placements as the fresh preset
  defaults. Motorcycle panels now have a shared global layout plus optional
  per-model overrides created only when calibration is changed while seated;
  resetting a model returns it to global inheritance.
• Immersive motorcycles now accelerate with the right trigger by default. The
  advanced physical wrist-twist throttle remains available through a strongly
  highlighted Vehicle Settings row, avoiding the appearance of broken controls
  for players who do not know the gesture.
• Updated Modern vehicle and motorcycle view/handle baselines, including the
  PCJ600 and Sanchez, without replacing the PC one-hand steering solver.
• Head-relative locomotion now applies the requested lateral direction without
  the original 50-degree movement gate, and Tommy's body aligns before the
  animation group is selected.
• Physical bat and other melee swings keep publishing their short follow-through
  after the fast trigger sample, so a standing swing can connect instead of
  requiring the player to walk into the target.
• Stereo occlusion now tests all eight transformed entity bounds against exact
  authored world volumes from both physical eyes. It no longer depends on a
  rolled or asymmetric 2D eye projection, reducing mid-view geometry cuts.
• A full transparent-object list no longer makes a fading object disappear for
  the frame; it falls back to the normal opaque path.
• Modern wheels bind while their verified wheel TXD is current, avoiding white
  dummy textures caused by load-order collisions.
• Bullet-trace visibility and fly-by audio use a last-valid physical headset
  view basis even when the simulation emits a trace before the next stereo
  frame, instead of silently falling back to Tommy's body-facing camera.
• Rain emission is normalized to the original 30 Hz authored rate. Fountain
  particles gain Original, Optimized, Low and Off modes; Optimized is the fresh
  default and Original remains the exact-behaviour fallback.
• Save loading now rejects malformed or oversized blocks before alignment or
  buffer reads and reports read failures instead of continuing with partial
  data.
• SWAT rope spawning now fails safely when the population pool cannot allocate
  the descending officer instead of dereferencing a null ped.
• Added a one-click PC Modern-model preparation script. It asks for the legal
  Vice City installation, caches and verifies the two external source packs,
  excludes the known-heavy replacement palms, builds into staging, validates
  the result and only then replaces modelsets\\modern.
• Fresh model-category defaults match the tested standalone profile: Modern
  World / Buildings and Weapons, with Classic Vehicles, Pedestrians and
  Vegetation / Palms. A missing overlay falls back to Classic for the session
  without erasing the requested Modern preference.
• Occlusion Culling now exposes Off, Stereo Safe, Authored and Aggressive modes.
  The default Authored path uses the union of both tracked-eye frustums before
  applying exact dual-eye authored-volume occlusion; Off remains the exact
  full-360 fallback.
• Locomotion Settings now exposes a direct RECENTER VIEW action; the obsolete
  no-op teleport/movement row is no longer shown.

SteamVR: cutscenes and menus at full frame rate

• Fixed cutscenes, loading screens, and menus dropping to ~15 fps on SteamVR
  after the first moment of gameplay. SteamVR deliberately throttles sessions
  that stop submitting stereo frames; flat content on the theater screen
  qualified. The game now renders the theater screen into a real stereo
  projection pass during flat content, so the session is never throttled.
  Confirmed fixed by the reporting player: full-rate cutscenes, menus, and
  saves on SteamVR.
• The screen keeps its world-anchored position, size, and the VR settings
  overlay; other runtimes (Oculus, VDXR) keep their existing proven path.
• Opt out with [VR] CinemaProjection=0 in vr_settings.ini (returns to the
  0.5.0 behavior including the SteamVR throttle). The experimental
  CinemaKeepAlive key from interim test builds is retired and ignored.

Crash and freeze fixes

• An IMG archive that exists but cannot be opened (an antivirus still
  scanning a freshly built Modern overlay, or an incomplete build) no longer
  crashes the game with an assertion. The session falls back to Classic
  assets and logs the file and error code.
• Fixed a crash when raising Render Scale to very high values (the
  post-effects buffer exceeded the D3D12 texture size limit); the effect now
  skips and retries instead.
• Fixed a startup crash window during the intro movie state when the VR
  runtime shuffled window focus.
• The game now refuses to start a second instance (previously invisible
  duplicate processes fought over the headset).
• Fixed a GPU memory spiral on 8 GB cards with Modern assets: the streaming
  cache is now sized from actual adapter VRAM, and GPU allocation failures
  shrink it further instead of escalating into paging and a DEVICE_HUNG
  device removal.
• Added [VR] StreamlineEnabled=0 to bypass DLSS/Streamline initialization
  on machines where the interposer delivers black frames (some VDXR setups);
  DLAA is unavailable in that mode.

Memory leaks

A full audit of the D3D12 backend found and fixed nine leaks and lifetime
bugs, including a use-after-free in deferred resource release (the root of
several DEVICE_HUNG and wrong-texture reports), post-effect buffers leaking
on pause-menu exit, texture heap pages that were never returned, an upload
pool that only grew, and stale queues surviving a device reset. Long
sessions no longer grow GPU or system memory to their peak forever.

Saves

• A save that cannot be written now reports failure honestly. Previously a
  blocked save folder showed "saved successfully" with an empty slot list
  (stock bug, typically triggered by installs in write-protected folders).
• If the game folder refuses writes, saves automatically go to
  Documents\GTA Vice City User Files instead of silently going nowhere.
• The save folder is resolved absolutely from the executable location, so
  launchers with a different working directory can no longer scatter saves.
• The log now records the active save folder and every save with its path.

Movement and input

• Fixed movement drifting or walking sideways for the whole session when the
  game was launched with the headset on the desk: the gameplay-space anchor
  is now latched only while the headset is actually worn, and re-latches
  after the headset has been set down for 30+ seconds.
• Added a proper stick deadzone (12% radial with rescale, plus cross-axis
  filtering) to VR locomotion; worn sticks no longer pull the player.
• Legacy DirectInput gamepads are ignored by default: phantom HID devices
  (RGB controllers, wheels) fed constant input under the VR sticks. Real
  pads and wheels can opt back in with [VR] LegacyGamepad=1.

Cutscene stability on all runtimes

• Fixed the headset view slamming between the theater screen and the world
  when scripted sequences flickered their cutscene flags between stages.
• Fixed the theater screen re-centering onto the player's head several times
  within one scripted scene.
• Fixed visible shaking during DLAA warm-up frames after cutscene
  transitions.
• Render Scale and Temporal AA menu rows no longer trigger a full render
  target rebuild when the effective resolution did not change, and the
  graphics menu warns about the per-eye GPU cost above 100%.

Diagnostics

• A failed presentation now writes d3d12_device_removed.log with the exact
  device-removal reason.
• The OpenXR log gained: cinema pacing telemetry (separates content judder,
  head-locked fallback, and anchor jumps), movement-input telemetry, a step
  trace for the first cinema frames, the resolved user-files folder, save
  results, and the cinema projection mode state.
• All vr_settings.ini reads now resolve the file relative to the
  executable; launching via a launcher or "Run as administrator" previously
  made some settings silently read from a nonexistent file.