vittorioromeo/quakevr v1.1.0-beta1

Quake VR: Unleashed 1.1.0-beta1

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Quake VR: UNLEASHED 1.1.0 beta 1: a preview of the next update. This is a beta: expect rough edges, and please report bugs (the crash dialog saves a report you can attach).

Highlights

• Arcane Dimensions support: AD's maps, monsters, weapons and rules, played natively in VR (developer launch / Debug menu while in beta).
• Euphoria-style active ragdolls: enemies stagger, fall, scramble back up and keep fighting. Shove them, lift them, throw them, sweep their legs, pull them off their feet or lift them by the legs; land on them from a height to crush them.
• Brutal melee and gore: neck snaps, judo throws, head and limb popping from impacts and stomps, flesh dents that stay on corpses, blood streams from wounds, back-splatter on walls, teeth from face punches, the buzzsaw cuts ragdolls.
• Fairer enemy melee: blows land only in front of the attacker, so sidesteps work; bigger monsters swing wider. New Combat > Enemy Melee menu with a "Show Melee Arcs" view.
• Throwing and holding: one consistent throw for props and weapons, grab floating pickups out of the air, magnetic holsters that call a thrown gun back, hands that rest on props instead of sinking in.
• Toolgun: spawns every expansion's monsters, items and weapons (Scourge of Armagon, Dissolution of Eternity, the machine games, AD), plus torches and fires; spawns appear at their final size.
• Player appearance: gloves (fingerless or full, any colour, worn leather), skin tone and bracers in a new VR Settings > Player Appearance page.
• Menus: VR Settings regrouped into fewer pages, several menu panels at once that stay where you put them, panels movable in depth.
• Climbing: your feet find footholds while you climb.
• Graphics: optional temporal anti-aliasing (TAA, experimental), smoother monster animation (less wobble), parallax surface level setting.
• Performance: faster map loads, fewer first-use hitches, ~0.5 ms less CPU per frame in VR, and no more frame drops while holding enemies in crowds.

Notes

• Configs from before 1.0.0 have their VR settings reset to the defaults (personal measurements kept).
• Experimental and off by default: single-pass stereo, TAA.
• Fixes include a crash when an Arcane Dimensions gargoyle's fireballs hit you, and VR no longer dropping to 10 fps when the game window loses focus.

Full details: docs/vr-port/ROUND22.md in the repository.

Files

Build: Quake VR 1.1.0-beta1 (2026-10-16 4af079e), commit 4af079e.

HD texture pack (the installer's optional HD textures; not attached here): quakevr-hq-textures-png-2026-10-03.zip, 586.4 MB, SHA-256 0c0df0e7b19525ba3fabfd1a88cce871b4b1321a5cae0134d5ae21636116b706.

Source of ericw-tools' light.exe (GPL-3; QuakeVR.zip ships light.exe): https://github.com/vittorioromeo/quakevr/releases/download/assets-2026-10-08/ericw-tools-2.0.0-alpha11-src.zip

The installer and the game are not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC" (More info > Run anyway). Check a download with Get-FileHash <file> against the table.