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Launch Arguments

This page describes the launch parameters that can be passed to the application at startup to alter its behavior.

General

Argument Description Notes / Details
-vr Launches the game in VR
--force-openxr Forces the use of OpenXR for VR This only affects the game when using VR
--no-steam Skips Steam API initialization
--safe-mode Loads the game into the default world (Hub) and avatar (kyle) Also disables OSC
--login-profile=<name> Profile to save/load the autologin profile file Allows switching accounts without logging in/out
--affinity=<mask> Allows to set which cores the game should use to run More Info
--content-cache-path=<path> Overrides the content cache directory More Info
--allow-aggressive-memory-clearing Forces memory RAM releasing when content is unloaded More Info

Video Player

Argument Description Notes
--disable-videoplayers Completely disables video players
--disable-vphd Disables video player hardware decoding This will set the in-game setting to false as well
This might help addressing some issues when using AMD GPUs
--enable-libvlc Replaces the AVPro with LibVLC on the video player

OSC

Argument Description Notes
--osc-listener-port=<port> Sets the UDP port to listen for OSC messages To mimic the default behaviour:
--osc-listener-port=9000
--osc-sender-port=<port> Sets the UDP port to send OSC messages to To mimic the default behaviour:
--osc-sender-port=9001
--osc-sender-ip=<ip or hostname> Sets the target IP address or hostname to send OSC messages to To mimic the default behaviour:
--osc-sender-ip=127.0.0.1
--osc-query-prefix=<prefix> Sets the prefix used for OSC query parameters. To mimic the default behaviour:
--osc-query-prefix=ChilloutVR
This prefix will then be suffixed with -XXXXXX

Descriptions

--affinity=<mask>

Allows manually setting which CPU cores the game runs on.

--content-cache-path=<path>

Overrides the path used for the content cache, by default it's on XXX\ChilloutVR\ChilloutVR_Data\Cache

For example --content-cache-path="D:/Temp/" would create the folder CVRContentCache in D:\Temp\ and store the cached content into it.

Note1: The picked folder needs to already exist Note2: 🚨 The contents of CVRContentCache can be deleted by the game, do not store anything important in there.

--allow-aggressive-memory-clearing

When avatars, props, or worlds are unloaded, this flag causes the game to release unused memory back to the system. Useful on systems with limited RAM. This doesn't free the memory instantly, it signals instead that the RAM is available to be reclaimed.

Note: ⚠️ This may cause stutters, or/and slower content loading.