How to make Steam version of Into The Radius use VDXR Runtime (Virtual Desktop using Quest)

[hollow tendon]

Please Note - This is a hacky method, not true native OpenXR that the game ships with as that is broken as of writing this.

• First you need to figure out a way to consistently launch ITR where it uses the Oculus Runtime instead of SteamVR. For me the method that works best is Right Clicking Virtual Desktop Streamer tray icon and using the Launch Game option there to launch IntoTheRadius-Win64-Shipping.exe from the game folder.

• Replace the Oculus Runtime DLL, this enables us to use OpenXR and by extension VDXR. The path is:
  \Into The Radius\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Oculus\OVRPlugin\OVRPlugin\Win64\

Find OVRPlugin.dll and rename it to keep as a backup. Replace with the provided file (thanks to mbucchia).

[zealous ember]

This worked for me! Just want to add that i had to launch the game from the win64shipping binary. The regular executable launched it using steamVR

[hollow tendon]

Ah I should add that in instructions

I do that automatically by habit, looking for the real exe

😆

[hollow tendon]

If that's working fine, I have an easy shortcut for you

Create a .bat file in the folder where IntoTheRadius-Win64-Shipping.exe is with the following content:
"C:\Program Files\Virtual Desktop Streamer\VirtualDesktop.Streamer.exe" "IntoTheRadius-Win64-Shipping.exe"

Name the bat file something convenient like ITR_VDXR.bat or whatever takes your fancy. Then create a desktop shortcut to the .bat file, now you can launch it directly from that