F.E.A.R. - FEAR VR

SolKutTeR · 28. Juli 2026

Der GitHub User DR-89 arbeitet an einer VR- Mod für FEAR.
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F.E.A.R. VR

Open-source, locally buildable VR mod for the single-player base version of F.E.A.R. 1.08 (FEAR.exe, LithTech Jupiter EX, Direct3D 9).

Note: This repo was created entirely with AI assistance. I've been a software developer for 11 years, but something like this is beyond me without AI. I guided the AI to the best of my knowledge. Nevertheless, the AI will certainly have made mistakes. PRs are welcome — help improve the mod!

Status: M6 (Packaging and regression). M5 is complete and confirmed in-game: native stereo world rendering, relative HMD headtracking, readable world-locked menu and stereo HUD are all confirmed with real F.E.A.R. on Quest 3/SteamVR. OpenXR controllers fully drive the game: movement, turning, weapon selection, jumping, reloading, crouching, slow-mo, sprinting, use, aim/fire, melee and pause menu; leaning uses left-hand tilt. First-person view keeps hands, torso and legs visible while hiding only the arms by default, and the ESC menu includes a native VR settings page. The classic D3D9 path still uses a flagged CPU compatibility fallback; translation remains opt-in without world collision. Details: docs/TESTING.md.
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Installation
The installer finds the usual paths on its own. When it cannot, it asks for them and shows examples — nothing has to be edited by hand.

What you need

F.E.A.R. 1.08, legally installed. Only the Steam Ultimate Shooter Edition is confirmed in-game; GOG and retail-disc copies of 1.08 install and launch, but are untested — see Game editions. Versions below 1.08 are rejected, because the Public Tools modules do not match them.

The official Public Tools 1.08, installed on this machine (see step 1).

A headset with SteamVR or Virtual Desktop (VDXR) as the active OpenXR runtime.

Windows 10/11, 64-bit.

Must-have mod: F.E.A.R. HD Textures v2.0.2
For the best experience, install F.E.A.R. HD Textures v2.0.2 from ModDB. Download it, run its installer, select your F.E.A.R. folder and the correct Steam/non-Steam option, then click Install. That's it — install it and be happy. F.E.A.R. VR recognizes both the original Steam executable and the executable patched by this texture mod.

1. Install the Public Tools 1.08
Five modules (GameClient.dll, GameServer.dll, ClientFx.fxd, FEAR.dep, FEARMod.Arch00s) are proprietary and must not ship with this mod. They come from Monolith's own installer fear_publictools_108.exe, which the Ultimate Shooter Edition includes under extras\. The installer copies them out of your local Public Tools installation.

The Public Tools installer refuses the Steam version: it reads HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Monolith Productions\FEAR\1.00.0000\Patch and expects the value 8, while Steam sets 10. Set it to 8, install, set it back to 10:

$key = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Monolith Productions\FEAR\1.00.0000'
Set-ItemProperty $key -Name Patch -Value 8 # before installing
Set-ItemProperty $key -Name Patch -Value 10 # after installing

2. Get the package
Either download a release archive and unpack it anywhere, or build one yourself from this repository:

pwsh -File tools\make-release.ps1

3. Run the installer
In the unpacked package, double-click Install.cmd. The window stays open at the end so the result stays readable. From a shell it is:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\install.ps1

That is the whole command for a normal setup. It detects the game and the Public Tools, builds an isolated stage under %USERPROFILE%\FearVR, and creates a desktop shortcut named F.E.A.R. VR. The retail installation is only read, never written — a Steam file verification stays clean.

If a path cannot be detected, the installer prints examples and asks for it. You can also pass paths up front:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\install.ps1 `
-InstallDir "D:\Games\FearVR" `
-RetailRoot "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition" `
-PublicToolsGame "C:\Program Files (x86)\Monolith Productions\FEAR Public Tools"

Path examples
Option What to enter Examples
-RetailRoot The folder containing FEAR.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition
C:\GOG Games\FEAR
C:\Program Files (x86)\Sierra\FEAR
-PublicToolsGame The Public Tools folder, or its Dev\Runtime\Game subfolder C:\Program Files (x86)\Monolith Productions\FEAR Public Tools
C:\Program Files (x86)\Monolith Productions\FEAR Public Tools\Dev\Runtime\Game
-InstallDir Where the mod's own files go (default %USERPROFILE%\FearVR) C:\Users\You\FearVR
D:\Games\FearVR
Quotes are required around paths with spaces, and pasted quotes are stripped automatically. Further options: -NoShortcut (no desktop shortcut) and -NonInteractive (never prompt — fail instead, for unattended installs).

Do not install below %LOCALAPPDATA%. The LithTech engine then fails to load its archive configuration and aborts with "Failed to initialize client - unable to load game resources". This was measured with a byte-identical configuration in different locations; only the location decides. The installer rejects such targets and asks for another one.

4. Updating
Double-click Install.cmd in the new package — there is nothing to uninstall first.

It detects the existing installation, reuses the paths and launch mode from last time (so no arguments are needed even if you passed some originally), replaces the modules, and drops any module a newer package no longer uses. Saved games and profiles under userdata are kept. Close the game first — the installer refuses to run while FEAR.exe is open, because the staged modules are locked then.

Add -Clean to wipe the install folder except userdata before staging again, if an installation ever ends up in a strange state.

5. Play
Start SteamVR or the Virtual Desktop Streamer first, then use the desktop shortcut, or:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\play.ps1

Steam has to be running as the store front (-applaunch 21090); SteamVR itself is optional if you use VDXR. To pick a runtime explicitly, add -Runtime steamvr or -Runtime vdxr.

6. Uninstall
Double-click Uninstall.cmd. It lists what would be removed and deletes only after you confirm with Y. From a shell:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\uninstall.ps1 # dry run
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\uninstall.ps1 -Apply # remove

Saved games and profiles under <InstallDir>\userdata are kept unless you add -IncludeUserData. Since nothing was ever written into the retail folder, there is nothing to repair there.
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Game editions
The mod is not bound to a specific store. Every byte signature it relies on lives in GameOrig.dll, the stock client that comes from the Public Tools — FEAR.exe itself is only hooked through its import table, which no build- specific address is derived from. What differs between editions is how the game is started:

Edition Launch Status
Steam (Ultimate Shooter Edition 1.08) steam.exe -applaunch 21090 Confirmed in-game
Steam 1.08 + HDTextures4FEAR/XP v2.0.2 steam.exe -applaunch 21090 Recognized; exact patched EXE hash confirmed
GOG (1.08) FEAR.exe directly, same arguments Should work, untested
Retail disc, patched to 1.08 FEAR.exe directly, same arguments Should work, untested
The installer picks the launch mode itself: a copy under steamapps\common goes through Steam, anything else is started directly. Override it with -LaunchMode steam or -LaunchMode direct.

An unknown FEAR.exe build is no longer an error. The installer prints its SHA-256 with a warning that this build is untested and continues. If you run a GOG or disc copy, that hash plus a note whether it worked is exactly what's needed to list the build as confirmed.

The HDTextures4FEAR/XP v2.0.2 installer replaces the Steam executable. Its patched hash and the original Steam hash are both recognized. Installing or removing that texture patch after F.E.A.R. VR was installed therefore does not require reinstalling the VR mod; unknown executable changes are still rejected.
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If something goes wrong
Message Cause and fix
Wrong FEAR.exe version Not patched to 1.08, or -RetailRoot points at a different installation.
This FEAR.exe build has not been tested A 1.08 build other than Steam's (GOG, disc). Installation continues; please report whether it works.
Public Tools 1.08 not found Not installed, or installed to a custom folder — pass -PublicToolsGame (see step 1 for the Patch=8 trick).
unable to load game resources at startup The install folder is below %LOCALAPPDATA%; reinstall with -InstallDir "D:\Games\FearVR".
Package file is missing or was modified The package was altered after it was built; unpack it again.
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Features
Everything listed here is implemented and has run in the actual game. Where something is built but not yet verified in-game, it's noted.

Rendering

Native stereo world rendering. The LithTech camera renders twice per frame with its own per-eye matrix — not a duplicated mono image. Activates automatically after loading; F8 toggles at any time.

Relative headtracking. HMD rotation rotates the game camera relative to the neutral horizontal direction; physical pitch and roll are always preserved. The 3D world has no manual recenter; its stable camera basis is initialized automatically.

Optional HMD translation up to 25 cm (-Translation). Without world collision, deliberately opt-in.

Stereo HUD. Ammo, health and hints are overlaid into both eyes instead of flat over the left image. The HUD is evenly compressed toward the screen center (5/4) so edge elements stay within the comfortable field of view.

Flat-screen mode for fullscreen UI. Menus, loading screens, movies and the mission briefing appear as a world-locked 2.4 × 1.8 m panel at 2 m distance. Detection is based on the retail game state CInterfaceMgr::m_eGameState, not pixel heuristics. Right stick click, F9 and Recenter 2D panel re-anchor the panel to the current gaze direction.

Comfort screen (F10). World-locked rendering for camera shakes and cutscenes, so forced camera movement doesn't pull at the head.

Quiet camera. Weapon bob and camera recoil are disabled; head bob is off by default and only toggleable via fearvr.ini. Retail's original vertical smoothing remains active to blend discrete stair-height steps.

Stable collision camera. Native VR uses Retail's raycast anti-clipping fallback instead of its moving camera-collision model, avoiding contact wobble without adding a delayed post-process position filter.

Stable slide-kick view. The body and height animation remain visible, but its scripted camera rotation cannot tilt the HMD-controlled view or leave it pointing downward afterward.

First-person body corrected. Upper and lower arms are hidden by default; hands, torso, legs and weapon remain visible, so kick animations can be seen. Arms can be toggled in the VR menu. The classic crosshair is off, since the red aim laser takes over its role.

Motion Controls

Full game control via OpenXR controllers — move, turn, jump, crouch, sprint, weapon switch, reload, grenade, slow-mo, use, aim, fire, pause and melee. Mouse, keyboard and gamepad remain usable in parallel.

Weapon follows the right hand. Shot origin and fire vectors come from the muzzle transform, not from gaze direction. View, hands and weapon share one directional camera-height basis: Retail smoothing remains for upward steps and crouching, while descending/airborne motion bypasses its trailing height until it catches up.

Red aim laser from the muzzle, toggleable on/off.

Point instead of look. Activate and pick-up follow the weapon laser with approx. 1.5 m range, instead of head direction.

Hand flashlight in the left hand. It follows the hand's position and aim direction and toggles with X. The second, non-toggleable retail flashlight is removed.

Full gesture melee. A forward thrust of either available hand produces the weapon or off-hand strike. The same thrust becomes a jump kick during a player-initiated jump. Sprinting forward plus a physical 25 cm crouch or stick-down enables the guarded slide kick. Direction is measured against each hand's own pointing direction, so sideways swings and pulling back do not count.

Ladder climbing by hand, switchable in the VR settings page ("Ladder climbing: HANDS / CLASSIC", classic by default). On a ladder a grab button grabs the rung and pulling the hand down climbs up. It drives the same commands the game itself evaluates on a ladder, so no write into the player physics is involved, and the grab buttons keep their usual meaning everywhere else.

Physical lean with world collision. Retail's lean only rolls the camera; the viewpoint never leaves the player position. Physical head movement now moves the viewpoint too, limited by a ray against the world so you cannot lean through a wall. Hands, weapon, muzzle and shot origin follow the same offset. The visible body follows its horizontal component during rendering, keeping the viewer naturally above the torso, while Retail's player object and collision capsule remain at the player position. No locomotion axes are injected, preventing counter-steering or oscillation. Switchable as Physical lean in the VR settings.

Leaning via hand tilt. Tilting the left hand sideways leans around corners; inverted and hanging hands are handled.

Haptics per shot, including full-auto — triggered on the retail shot, not on the trigger edge. Empty magazine = no vibration.

Menu and Settings

Native VR settings page in the ESC menu ("VR SETTINGS"), usable with the controller: Stereo rendering, Stereo HUD, Turn speed, Red aim guide, Controller vibration, Controls (right/left-handed), Ladder climbing (hands or classic), Melee (gestures or classic), Show arms, FOV scale, Recenter 2D panel, Reset VR defaults.

Persistence in fearvr.ini, including settings not exposed in the menu: HMD translation, head bob, comfort screen and four individual melee moves.

Body visibility switch saved as ShowArms (0 by default). F11 remains a developer diagnostic for isolating Retail body pieces, not the arm-hiding mechanism.

Operation

Two processes by bitness: x64 OpenXR host and x86 D3D9 bridge over a versioned shared-memory protocol with frame ring and heartbeat monitoring. If the host crashes, the game continues flat.

Runtime selection at launch: SteamVR and VirtualDesktopXR are confirmed; -Runtime sets XR_RUNTIME_JSON only for the host process.

SteamVR Desktop Theater is automatically disabled and monitored; under VDXR this is skipped entirely.

Structured JSON logs for host and bridge with perf counters; each run writes to its own directory under logs\.

Version-bound with fail-safe. All retail hooks check timestamp, image size and expected byte patterns. If something doesn't match, the hook stays disabled and the game continues. Diagnostic switches like -fearvr-safe, -fearvr-no-interaction or -fearvr-no-gamestate are available.

Distributable package (tools\make-release.ps1) with installer, desktop shortcut and uninstaller. It contains only our own MIT-licensed binaries; the proprietary modules are pulled from the local Public Tools installation.

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Core Principles

Retail stays untouched. Nothing is written into the Steam installation and no original EXE/DLL/archive file is overwritten. All work happens in an isolated stage under the project root (stage/) with its own -userdirectory.

No retail/SDK/asset files in Git. See .gitignore.

Separate processes by bitness: an x64 OpenXR host owns the OpenXR session; the x86 FEAR.exe renders via a d3d9.dll bridge and a locally rebuilt GameClient module. Reason: the 32-bit OpenXR runtime registry entry is missing on this machine (see docs/ENVIRONMENT.md).

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Architecture (Overview)
SteamVR / OpenXR (x64)
^ OpenXR + XR_KHR_D3D11_enable
fearvr-host.exe (x64, D3D11)
^ versioned IPC (poses, FOV, shared texture handles)
FEAR.exe (x86, D3D9) + d3d9.dll bridge + GameClient module (x86)
v LithTech RenderCamera, twice per frame

Details: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
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Repository Structure
Path Contents
docs/ Environment, architecture, coordinates, stereo research, tests
src/common/ shared IPC contract (protocol.h) + math
src/host64/ x64 OpenXR host (fearvr-host.exe)
src/proxy32/ x86 D3D9 proxy/bridge
src/gameclient_loader/ ABI-neutral loader for the real archcfg stage
src/launcher/ Launcher (starts host, then isolated FEAR.exe)
game-source-overlay/ only newly written GameClient project files
patches/ minimal, license-checked diffs / transform scripts
shaders/ host fullscreen/composite shaders
tests/ automated tests (protocol, math, state machine …)
tools/ verify-install.ps1, prepare-m5-stage.ps1, launch-m5-fear.ps1 …
vendor-local/, build/, stage/, logs/ local, not in Git
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Prerequisites
See docs/ENVIRONMENT.md for the verified current state and still-missing components. In short:

F.E.A.R. 1.08 (Ultimate Shooter Edition), legally installed

Visual Studio 2022 with "Desktop Development with C++" (+ v141 toolset for compile/source analysis; runtime Public Tools modules need VC7.1)

CMake, Git

SteamVR as active OpenXR runtime + headset

Local official Public Tools installer 1.08

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Quick Start (Verify Environment)
pwsh -File tools/verify-install.ps1

Checks retail path, FEAR.exe hash/version, OpenXR runtime, registry and available build tools, and reports missing components — without changing anything.
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EchoPatch (tried, then removed)
EchoPatch was evaluated as a companion patch and is not installed. Its crash handler is a vectored exception handler and killed the game on startup, because this mod deliberately probes retail internals behind __try/__except. With that disabled, EchoPatch aborted on a missing signature — it patches the game modules, and this mod renames the retail client to GameOrig.dll. Everything EchoPatch is known for (FOV, HUD scaling, SSAA, gamepad) had to be switched off for VR anyway. Full reasoning and a reproducible install script, should anyone want to retry: docs/ECHOPATCH.md.
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Build
One command checks pinned dependencies, builds x86 and x64, runs both test suites and writes stage\build-manifest.json with SHA-256 sums of all artifacts:

pwsh -File tools\build-all.ps1

Individual builds are still possible; x86 (proxy) and x64 (host) are built separately:

pwsh -File tools\prepare-dependencies.ps1

cmake -S . -B build\x86 -A Win32 -DFEARVR_BUILD_PROXY=ON -DFEARVR_BUILD_HOST=OFF
cmake --build build\x86 --config RelWithDebInfo

cmake -S . -B build\x64 -A x64 -DFEARVR_BUILD_PROXY=OFF -DFEARVR_BUILD_HOST=ON
cmake --build build\x64 --config RelWithDebInfo

-G "Visual Studio 17 2022" is part of this: without -G, CMake picks the newest installed Visual Studio, and the x86 modules must remain v141/VC7.1 compatible. build-all.ps1 detects a build tree created with a foreign generator and recreates it.

The artifacts are process-reproducible, not bit-identical: MSVC embeds timestamps and PDB GUIDs, so two builds of the same sources produce different hashes. The manifest records the Git state and warns if the working tree is dirty.

Verify M1 host against the active OpenXR runtime:

build\x64\src\host64\RelWithDebInfo\fearvr-host.exe --validate-only
build\x64\src\host64\RelWithDebInfo\fearvr-host.exe --max-frames 120

M2 bridge and real stage:

pwsh -File tools\test-m2-bridge.ps1
pwsh -File tools\test-m2-bridge.ps1 -ClassicD3D9
pwsh -File tools\test-m2-bridge.ps1 -AbortHost
pwsh -File tools\prepare-m2-stage.ps1
pwsh -File tools\launch-m2-fear.ps1

Playable M4 build:

pwsh -File tools\prepare-m4-stage.ps1
pwsh -File tools\launch-m4-fear.ps1

M5 with Motion Controls:

pwsh -File tools\prepare-m5-stage.ps1
pwsh -File tools\launch-m5-fear.ps1
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VR Runtime: SteamVR or Virtual Desktop
The mod is not bound to any specific runtime — the x64 host only speaks OpenXR. SteamVR and VirtualDesktopXR (VDXR) are confirmed.

pwsh -File tools\launch-m5-fear.ps1 # active runtime
pwsh -File tools\launch-m5-fear.ps1 -Runtime vdxr # Virtual Desktop
pwsh -File tools\launch-m5-fear.ps1 -Runtime steamvr # SteamVR

-Runtime sets XR_RUNTIME_JSON only for the host process. The system-wide setting under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenXR\1\ActiveRuntime is not changed; to change it permanently, do so in the Virtual Desktop Streamer or SteamVR respectively. tools\verify-install.ps1 shows the active runtime and which ones are installed.

Only under SteamVR are SteamVR-specific steps executed (disable autoShowGameTheater, theater watchdog). Under VDXR they are skipped entirely, and no SteamVR file is touched.

Steam is still required — but only as the store: F.E.A.R. is officially launched via steam.exe -applaunch 21090. This is independent of which VR runtime renders. SteamVR itself does not need to run under VDXR.

Bindings: left stick moves, left grip sprints — or, with that hand placed on the weapon, holds it as a second hand; left stick click uses a medkit. Right stick turns; at 80% deflection it jumps up and crouches down, stick click performs a melee attack in the 3D world and re-anchors the panel in 2D. A switches weapons, B reloads (short press) or throws a grenade (hold), X toggles the flashlight, Y opens pause. Right grip uses, the left trigger toggles slow-mo, and the right trigger fires. Tilting the left hand sideways leans around corners. Holding the weapon with both hands steers longer weapons along the line between the hands; sprinting and leaning rest while that grab is held. Controls: LEFT-HANDED in the VR menu mirrors every binding between the hands. The flashlight is in the left hand, follows its position and aim direction, and toggles with X. Every shot vibrates. Mouse, keyboard and gamepad remain usable in parallel. Details: docs/OPENXR-INPUT.md.

In first-person view, hands, torso, legs and weapon remain visible; only upper and lower arms are hidden by default. Show arms: ON / OFF in the VR menu switches immediately between the original Retail material and the VR arm mask.

The M5 launch enables the confirmed stereo HUD by default and closes SteamVR's delayed F.E.A.R. Desktop Theater automatically. Options:

-Translation: limited HMD translation up to 25 cm, without world collision;

Head bob is off by default; HeadBob=1 in fearvr.ini enables only the camera movement while the weapon stays steady for stable aiming;

-NoHeadBob: forces head bob off, even if the INI enables it;

-NoStereoHud: for comparison/troubleshooting only.

Keys in-game:

F8: toggle native stereo world rendering on/off;

F9: re-anchor menus and other 2D panels; no function in the 3D world;

F10: toggle world-locked comfort screen for camera shakes and cutscenes;

F11: developer diagnostic that isolates player body pieces one by one.

The ESC menu in M5 contains the English-labeled entry "VR SETTINGS" directly after "Options". The page is deliberately short and single-page: Stereo rendering, Stereo HUD, Turn speed, Red aim guide, Controller vibration, right/left-handed controls, ladder climbing, gesture/classic melee, Show arms, FOV scale, Recenter 2D panel, Reset VR defaults and BACK. HMD translation, head bob, comfort screen and the four individual melee switches remain configurable in fearvr.ini without cluttering the native menu. Selection is saved to stage/userdata-m5/fearvr.ini. Stick navigates, A or trigger confirms and B goes back.
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Uninstall
Outside the project root, the mod writes exactly one file: steamvr.vrsettings, and there only the key steamvr.autoShowGameTheater. There is no registry change and no write to the retail installation. (tools\install-echopatch.ps1 would place two files in the retail folder, but EchoPatch is not installed — see above.)

pwsh -File tools\uninstall-fearvr.ps1 # dry run, changes nothing
pwsh -File tools\uninstall-fearvr.ps1 -Apply # actually remove

Removes stage\, build\, dist\, local-runtime\, logs\ and EchoPatch. Beforehand, autoShowGameTheater is specifically restored from the oldest backup — only that one key, so later custom SteamVR settings are preserved.

Save games are not removed. stage\userdata-* is the game's -userdirectory and contains saves, profiles and screenshots. Those are user data, not mod files; they are only removed with -IncludeUserData. Additional switches: -KeepLogs, -IncludeVendor and -Scope SteamVrOnly|ProjectOnly.

A Steam file integrity check is not needed, because retail was never written to. The script verifies the SHA-256 of FEAR.exe before and after.

SteamVR should be closed during uninstall: it rewrites its configuration on shutdown and would otherwise overwrite the restoration. The script warns if it sees SteamVR running.
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Known Limitations

The classic D3D9 path still requires a CPU readback per eye and frame (FEARVR_BF_CPU_FALLBACK). F.E.A.R. creates a plain IDirect3DDevice9, and D3D9 can only share surfaces across processes from a D3D9Ex device — so this is the one remaining copy. The zero-copy DirectShared path already exists and engages the moment the device is an Ex device; getting there needs a wrapper for textures and buffers, because D3DPOOL_MANAGED does not exist on Ex devices. The stereo HUD compositor no longer reads back: the pixel comparison runs as a ps_2_0 shader on the GPU, and its coverage heuristic reads a few kilobytes one frame late instead of a full frame. That removed one of three readbacks and all per-pixel CPU work. -fearvr-no-gpu-hud forces the old CPU compositor back.

HMD translation has no world collision and therefore remains opt-in (-Translation).

The version-dependent hooks verify byte signatures, image size and timestamp of the F.E.A.R. 1.08 Public Tools modules. On a mismatch the affected hook stays disabled and the game continues flat. FEAR.exe itself is only hooked through its import table, which is why other 1.08 builds are expected to work (see Game editions).

The left system/menu button cannot be bound: SteamVR captures it for its own system menu.

The weapon jump when climbing stairs is not conclusively solved and deliberately deferred.

"Motion-controlled aiming" is verified via aim laser and hit point; a general "6DoF weapon" is not claimed.

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License
The self-written components are under the MIT License (see LICENSE). For the license boundaries of dependencies and the official F.E.A.R. Client and Public Tools components, see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Legal Notice
This mod contains no retail files, no proprietary SDK source code and no extracted assets. Building and running it requires your own, legally purchased F.E.A.R. installation and the official Public Tools installer. "VR playable" is claimed earliest from M4, "Motion Controls" from M5.
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ToM · 29. Juli 2026

oh gott wie geil meine gebete wurden endlich erhört

ToM · 13. August 2026 um 09:16 Uhr

servus wo kann man eigentlich das spiel noch kaufen?

joe209 · 13. August 2026 um 09:46 Uhr

Aber leider noch kein Motion Control...oh doch

komisch · 13. August 2026 um 09:59 Uhr

Fehler

SolKutTeR · 13. August 2026 um 11:31 Uhr

Zitat von ToM: ↑

servus wo kann man eigentlich das spiel noch kaufen?
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Wenn ich das nur wüsste, ähnliche Fragen habe ich mir auch bei z.B. Battlefield 1942 gestellt.

komisch · 13. August 2026 um 11:54 Uhr

Wo sind die Raubcopien wenn man sie braucht

SolKutTeR · 16. August 2026 um 12:09 Uhr

Augenscheinlich arbeitet der User TheFreeMike ebenfalls an einer VRMod für diesen Titel, oder handelt es sich um dasselbe Projekt?

Join the discord: discord buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/thefreemike This is the latest major progress update on my work-in-progress VR conversion of Monolith’s original F.E.A.R. Since the previous video, the focus has shifted from proving that individual VR systems are possible to finishing, connecting and polishing them into a cohesive private-beta release candidate. The biggest addition is the greatly expanded physical weapon arsenal.
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New physical weapon interactions:

The ASP scoped rifle now has a functional eye-proximity 3x scope

The ASP reload includes a removable magazine, physical insertion and a required charge-handle pull

Scope stabilization makes precision aiming steadier without adding noticeable lag

The HV Penetrator now has a physical magazine reload and properly aligned vertical foregrip

The Type-7 Plasma weapon uses its physical side cell and top-mounted charging Hammer

The Cannon now has a removable ammunition clip and a physically operated side Hammer

The Cannon Hammer follows the weapon’s actual authored mechanical rail

The Missile Launcher now supports physical magazine ejection and reinsertion

Pistols, dual pistols, the SMG and shotgun can display optional physical ammunition guides on the player’s body

All previously demonstrated pistol, SMG, assault-rifle and shell-by-shell shotgun reload systems remain intact

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New interactions and weapon polish:

Toggle the flashlight by raising the utility hand to your temple and pressing Grip

Choose between the original timed flashlight battery and an optional unlimited mode

The weapon selector now supports reliable direct icon touching with visible tracked fists

Large weapons disappear while the wheel is open so they no longer block selection

Contextual world-space cards now identify weapon pickups and required inventory swaps

Full-inventory swaps can use either a deliberate Reload hold or the original Use button

Single and dual pistols received corrected physical grip alignment

Controller and scoped-weapon stabilization received another precision pass

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Comfort, onboarding and interface improvements:

A new five-step first-run VR setup covers handedness, play height, turning, reloading and vignette comfort

Standing and Seated play modes are saved per profile

Snap and Smooth turning are both supported

The locomotion vignette can be enabled and adjusted

Standard and Southpaw stick layouts are now separated from weapon handedness

Menus, loading screens and cinematics use a larger and more comfortable VR panel

VR settings remain editable after onboarding

Pause menus now freeze the visible hands instead of letting them move behind the panel

Save, quicksave and pause transitions correctly recover the seated crouch state

VR firing and grenade input are blocked during authored cutscenes

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Traversal and campaign polish:

Loading presentation is now fluid and gameplay reaches full performance almost immediately after level entry

Physical ladder top-out is more reliable around narrow handrails and awkward geometry

Shallow and deep-water movement now follows physical turning correctly

Players can transition directly from swimming into physical ladder climbing

Additional community-reported camera, interaction, fade and campaign issues have been corrected

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Compatibility and release progress:

F.E.A.R. VR now has a complete private-beta release candidate

The installer supports clean installation, updates, rollback and self-uninstallation

Automatic SteamVR selection has been validated through Steam Link

A compatibility correction fixed a black-headset issue caused by malformed legacy gamma data on an affected Virtual Desktop setup

Additional controller layouts have been prepared for Index, Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, PICO and other OpenXR hardware, although those profiles still require physical tester reports

Automatic Meta Quest Link routing and a new right-eye desktop mirror are currently undergoing final validation

The original game remains responsible for ammunition, damage, ballistics, AI, physics, inventory and campaign logic. The VR interactions are layered around that foundation so the game continues to behave like F.E.A.R. rather than becoming a simplified recreation. The project remains a free, unofficial work in progress. There is no public download yet, but it is now much closer to a wider release.
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What remains:

Final Meta Quest Link and optional OBS-layer compatibility checks

External confirmation of the hardened installer

Wider controller and headset testing

Continued campaign and expansion testing

Final compatibility, performance and presentation polish

Thanks for following the project through all these updates. Let me know which physical weapon interaction you want to try first!
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