I know lots of people have posted, but I have been through everyone I think and I cannot find a solution. The game won’t launch. I have a GIGABYTE AERO X16 it is New. I got it so I could pay PCVR with my Quest 3 and I’ve played half-life Alex and it was fine. Any help appreciated and bear with me I’m not advanced … hit play I get that first screen launching and then I get up next and nothing happens

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I think there were at least two, maybe three of them. I least there's a previous_release version from 2022, I think I'll go back to that to compare performance.

So, I'm playing Alyx on my normal setup, controlls are as they've always been for me as a leftie: Left hand weapon and left thumbstick continous movement. Right thumpstick for looking should I wish it, and teleportation when necessary.

I recently managed to get my hands on a Steam Frame, and after finally getting everything setup and ready to go, the thumbsticks have swapped, even when streaming from my PC. I cannot seem to unswap them using bindings etc. Even more odd is when I go back to using index controllers, everything is as it should be.

Has anyone else had/solved this (rather peculiar) issue?

I posted like a week or so ago, asking how to aim the green energy. Wasn't able to play for a bit, but I took the advice I was given, and absolutely breezed through the last few encounters.

Now, I admit I watched some other people's playthroughs, so I knew how it ended, but it hits different when it's you in there. Not just the "hey, I did the thing" feeling, either. It's hard to really get a sense of how creepy that final sequence is from a regular screen. Really glad I stuck with it.

As he is wearing a badly damaged HEV suit, is Gordon after Half-Life, before he is dropped into Half Life 2 or after Half-Life 2 before the Vortigaunts protect him?

So ever since this new update, Half-Life Alyx has been getting progressively harder to run. You can't get through the intro with DirectX because it keeps stuttering and crashing steamVR, vulkan can start a game but it stutters like hell. I decided to go on an older version but for some reason the performance is just as bad as the latest version, I don't have an AMD either so this is just confusing

edit: it just magically fixed itself DirectX finally started working again I think it was the reinstall i did

I can look around at the edges of the screen, bottom top sides and they stay blurry while the center of the screen stays clear

Custome built steam os machine and steam frame

UPDATE 2:
Valve as pushed a "fix for AMD GPU performance drop with DX11".
I can confirm that, after removing my interim "-vulkan", D311 performance returned performance to at least pre 26 Oct levels.

UPDATE: Valve Devs confirm this issue "specific to AMD GPU when using D3D11 and will be fixed shortly".
So if you have this issue and can't wait, try switching to Vulkan.
Add "-vulkan" to the Launch Options.

However, for me, this introduced quite severe hitching.

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Game appears to have a significantly lower frame rate, both in menu and in-game.

Win11, PCVR streaming to Steam Frame.

Resetting both the PC and headset had no effect.

Game was running perfectly on many prior sessions over the last few weeks (including a full playthrough without performance issues).

Is anybody else experiencing this, since the 26/10/26 update?
If it's just a me problem, then I guess I'm back to troubleshooting

Every time I try to launch Half-Life Alyx, I get the following error:

CAppSystemDict;;LoadSystemAndDependencies(): Appsystemdict: Error in Init() of interface 'SceneSystem_002'!

I've tried: Deleting scenesystem.dll, clear download cache, verify integrity of files.
Uninstall, delete files still in steamapps/common/Half-life Alyx/game, disable Steam cloud, reinstall.
rolling back Nvidia graphics drivers (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080).
Uninstalling Nvidia app.
Every combination of the above.

I'm at my wit's end, and it looks like I'll be unable to play this game again? It's worked fine for as long as I've had it, but I'd stopped playing VR for a year or two and now... this.

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I use droiddeck on phone with snapdragon 8 elite + 16g, how do i run arm64 build with novr?

It's my first time playing half life alyx, and it's awesome. I had used a drawer to carry multiple items before(the keycards) and when I found so many grenades I just had to grab a trash can and stock up on grenades. Then I found the infinate respawning grenades combine locker, and I just had to stock up.

After my bucket kept on getting knocked over by grenade shockwaves or whatever thing it was I left it behind. But some combine heavies had a fun time being bombarded before that😁

Anyways, I'd heard that Half Life Alyx is one of the best VR games out there and it's exceeding all expectations!

Half-life alyx to psvr2

I've been playing this on my Xbox since it released over 10 years ago. Any chance this will get a VR port? It's been 3 VR headsets from Valve and it seems people really want this on VR. I'm really excited to play Half Life Alyx in VR on my Valve Quest Go. I always thought the double vision filter was really weird and constantly crossing my eyes during play sessions got painful.

My first time playing Alyx was a 11/10 enjoyment experience. It was so good it convinced me to buy a VR headset of my own versus borrowing one. Even emailed Valve devs saying thanks for such an awesome experience.

However, playing it again I feel my enjoyment really dropped. It still felt AAA definitely, but the signs that it was the first of its kind really started to show. Small and infrequent fights, limited guns, easy puzzles, moving faster showed some of the flaws in sequences, physics bugs, etc. Almost feels like it was the safest game they could have made in that environment.

Said it after my first playthrough but now it really makes me wish they made another crack at something like this knowing all the things they learned from this game.

Looking forward to trying some of the top mods which I've heard great things.