Dual boot previous runtimes with 1.3?

drkaii

drkaii
I miss Alien Isolation (0.5)
I miss Euro Truck Sim (0.6)
I miss American Truck Sim (0.7)
I miss Space Engine (0.8)

Is anyone smart enough to come up with a method to have multiple runtimes installed? Even just 0.8, along with 1.3?

Lets hope Oculus allow some reverse compatibility...

Nevermind! Works using this method: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4cizue/scripts_to_switch_between_oculus_home_final/

Going to work on a GUI now

Switcher: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4ckm38/oculus_runtime_switcher_0506070813_with_gui/
 

NoshDaMinsk

NoshDaMinsk
drkaii said:
Is anyone smart enough to come up with a method to have multiple runtimes installed? Even just 0.8, along with 1.3?

Lets hope Oculus allow some reverse compatibility...
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[yesnod] agreed - there must be.

Same boat with Project Cars and DCS.

And if someone does pull it off, they will need to have a paypal account - because I, for one, would donate some beer tokens, that's for sure....

Nosh
 
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catanonia

C
Not yet other than what you almost said in your title. Dual boot OS's if you know how and have the disk space. I have been doing it for ages with 0.5 and ED on Win7 until now.
 

drkaii

drkaii
NoshDaMinsk said:
[yesnod] agreed - there must be.

Same boat with Project Cars and DCS.

And if someone does pull it off, they will need to have a paypal account - because I, for one, would donate some beer tokens, that's for sure....

Nosh
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Project Cars? That's in the oculus home app for 1.3 so I assume it works?

BTW, The Space Engineer seems to have pulled it off...

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WARNING, he is using some trickery. Don't try to just "install" 0.8 like I did. Ran into all sorts of troubles
 

Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Alien isolation won't run on 1.3? :eek::eek::eek:

Oh flipperty gibberty hecking poop..... (Mods can't bypass the forum swearfilter either.)

I was going to go back to that soon once I'd calmed down and the tranquillisers had kicked in from last time I'd played it.
 

drkaii

drkaii
CMDR Rison said:
Just read this, trying it now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4cizue/scripts_to_switch_between_oculus_home_final/
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I made that exact script myself last night and couldn't get it working. Are you getting any luck?

The main problem is if you install 0.8 over Home, Home breaks. Then you can move the 0.8 files over, and you have to uninstall 0.8. And reinstall Home, but at that point this thing doesn't work.

Nevermind! It works. The thing I did wrong was to install and move. Instead, like this guy has pointed out, I installed immediately to a different location.

Think I might work on a GUI to get this done neatly :)
 

CylonSurfer

CylonSurfer
I'm happily switching between 1.3, 0.8, 0.6 and 0.5 using .cmd scripts. I might knock up something nicer with a GUI in AHK.

I can confirm that Alien Isolation works fine, I just switch to 0.5, pause the OVR Service, close the Oculus config app and then launch Alien Isolation.
 
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CMDR Rison

CMDR Rison
I wasn't able to switch to 0.5
It seems to switch but my dk2 is never detected.
I'm trying to go between 1.3, 0.8, and 0.5 and I'm using 0.8 as a go-between until I understand more about editing the scripts.
Any chance you could let me see your script?

This is my (non-functional) script to go from 0.8 to 0.5:

net stop OVRService
"C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0800\Tools\DirectDisplayConfig.exe" off
taskkill /f /im OculusConfigUtil.exe
mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""Wscript.Shell"").Run(""""""C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0500\Service\OVRServer_x64.exe"""""", 0, False)(window.close)")
start "" C:"program files (x86)"\Oculus_0500\Tools\OculusConfigUtil.exe
 

drkaii

drkaii
CylonSurfer said:
I'm happily switching between 1.3, 0.8, 0.6 and 0.5 using .cmd scripts. I might knock up something nicer with a GUI in AHK.

I can confirm that Alien Isolation works fine, I just switch to 0.5, pause the OVR Service, close the Oculus config app and then launch Alien Isolation.
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I'm happily switching between them now too, but 0.5 can't detect the HMD and 0.6 doesn't run the service. I've written a great GUI, going to post it soon.
 

potskomtar

potskomtar
I can but need to do it in sequence , home , 08 ,05 ,08 , home.

Edit , in 05 i open nvidia cp and change the contrast , etc ,i think they keep the settings when returning to home.
 
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CylonSurfer

CylonSurfer
drkaii said:
I'm happily switching between them now too, but 0.5 can't detect the HMD and 0.6 doesn't run the service. I've written a great GUI, going to post it soon.
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Are you changing 0.5 to extended mode after running the runtime switcher? Mine does the same until I manually switch to extended mode. I'll post my scripts when I'm back at my PC.
 

drkaii

drkaii
CylonSurfer said:
I'm happily switching between 1.3, 0.8, 0.6 and 0.5 using .cmd scripts. I might knock up something nicer with a GUI in AHK.

I can confirm that Alien Isolation works fine, I just switch to 0.5, pause the OVR Service, close the Oculus config app and then launch Alien Isolation.
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Hey, I can't seem to get 0.5 or 0.6 working - anything you are doing different with them?
 

potskomtar

potskomtar
use this to change from 08 to 05;

net stop OVRService
"C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0800\Tools\DirectDisplayConfig.exe" off
taskkill /f /im OculusConfigUtil.exe
mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""Wscript.Shell"").Run(""""""C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0500\Service\OVRServer_x64.exe"""""", 0, False)(window.close)")
start "" C:"program files (x86)"\Oculus_0500\Tools\OculusConfigUtil.exe


to use 05 you need to run 08 before.

to change from 05 to home you must run 08 before home.

edit i have 05 in extended mode for iracing , 06 dont work.
 
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drkaii

drkaii
potskomtar said:
use this to change from 08 to 05;

net stop OVRService
"C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0800\Tools\DirectDisplayConfig.exe" off
taskkill /f /im OculusConfigUtil.exe
mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""Wscript.Shell"").Run(""""""C:\program files (x86)\Oculus_0500\Service\OVRServer_x64.exe"""""", 0, False)(window.close)")
start "" C:"program files (x86)"\Oculus_0500\Tools\OculusConfigUtil.exe


to use 05 you need to run 08 before.

to change from 05 to home you must run 08 before home.

edit i have 05 in extended mode for iracing , 06 dont work.
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Thanks! Tested and, while it says HMD not detected still, I am able to get extended mode working and Alien Isolation working. I'm going to write this in to the app
 
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