Fixed: Steam VR no per-application menu and BMS launch auto loads into Steam menu
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EDIT: My error was installing BMS inside Falcon 4.0. Don’t do that!
Hi - I started encountering a problem where after I launch BMS and VR is enabled, it auto-boots into the steam VR menu (not Windows Mixed Reality’s weird garden). As I cannot launch the game from the steam VR menu I have to close the steam VR menu to get into the WMR room. From there I am able to “launch” BMS from the BMS launcher. This boots me into the game menu but as soon as I launch a flight, the game crawls to its knees as if there are two instances of VR running. I used to be able to launch BMS without it booting into the Steam VR menu and everything worked fine. It was only after I went hunting for the video per application settings in Steam that things changes.
Also, I do not see Falcon BMS as an option in the per-application menu of Steam’s VR settings. It exists while I’m in VR, but not when the game is closed, therefore I cannot adjust any rendering settings.
I don’t know what I’ve done to cause this situation , and would love to get some advice.Thank you,
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@leinsters first up, go to steam library and right click on BMS if you’ve added it. Go to properties and then make sure show in Vr library is ticked.
Then in steam Vr settings there’s a tick box for launching to the steam Vr library which you need to change, but right now I can’t remember which one it is - I’ll look when I’m near my pc.
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@rubbra thanks for the info. I added what I think is BMS (Falcon BMS.exe) to the steam library.
I then went into the steam VR settings and couldn’t find anything that has a tickbox. Now when I click on the launcher Steam VR automatically launches and the game launches behind it. And Steam VR is warning me “failed to load input bindings for VR dashboard” despite my having the controller on. I have no means to control it.
I then close Steam VR, launch BMS through WMR on the desktop, and Steam VR automatically starts up again, complete with that warning above.
I have no idea what is going on, everything worked fine this morning and it only changed after I started messing around with the Steam VR settings after watching Fish44’s YouTube video. I’ve retraced my steps and the same thing happens in other VR games including DCS.
Edit: uninstall and reinstall didn’t fix the game not loading. What I think is happening is somehow Steam VR is causing the game to reload after “loading”. I say this because when it does load into VR it’s incredibly choppy and frame rates are non existent
Edit 2: I’ve removed Falcon BMS 4.37 from Steam VR and now every time I enable VR in the launcher, Steam VR automatically starts and shows the VR game menu which I can’t get rif of.
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@leinsters VR dashboard on System Button = Off is what you want, in the Dashboard settings. That will prevent SteamVR starting its dashboard when you first launch.
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@rubbra thank you, that got rid of the menu. But now when I double-click the BMS launcher .exe Steam VR starts up and all I see is the Steam VR mountains and night scenery. Because I can’t see the BMS launcher, I close Steam VR so I can see the BMS launcher in the Windows Mixed Reality desktop. It’s here that I launch BMS into VR via the Falcon BMS launcher. The VR triangles appear and I see the BMS menu. I start a flight and the game loads but frame rates are a slide show as if two instances of BMS are running. I do not know what is causing the slide show (DCS and other games are fine).
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@leinsters sounds to me like you need to strip it all back to basics. Usually the cause of rubbish frame rates is asking BMS to draw too many things - it’s worth confirming:
- in game AA is at 1x
- SteamVR resolution is (for now) the same as your headset native resolution. (Which usually isn’t the same as 100% - go off the resolution not the %)
- BMS render res is 1.0
Once you’ve set all that, try it. If performance is back to “normal”, then you can start increasing resolution
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@rubbra Thanks, nothing has worked. I’m now going to uninstall BMS and Falcon, and then reinstall to see if that does it. Appreciate the help.