OpenXR and its use in other games

[CptLucky8]

Most people on Youtube or elsewhere are recommending doing things they don’t know about, like changing the registry, because this is what MSFT was recommending to do during the beta.

Actually I’ve been suggesting they change this very early on because it is not supposed to be user edited and can cause further tech support problems:

@CptLucky8

I’ve forgotten to add the most important point maybe to it all:

No matter what registry setting you tell any customer to change, the environment variable has precedence.

This will certainly save some support headache to just tell customers using the environment variable instead of the registry, otherwise you might be trying for weeks and never understand why the registry setting is not picking up…

Don’t set location of OpenXR runtime with the registry, use OpenXR Loader Specs instead

As for your other questions, HLA is using OpenVR (Valve equivalent to OpenXR) and is not at all for now which OpenXR driver you’re using (SteamVR OpenXR or WMR OpenXR).

However any OpenXR Dev Tool setting you change is affecting any application using the WMR OpenXR driver. Applications will be using the WMR OpenXR driver if this is the default OXR driver you’ve configured on your system of course. Otherwise if you’re configuring your system to using the SteamVR OpenXR driver, any OpenXR application will be using the SteamVR OXR implementation instead!