v0.5

Requires VC++ 2019 runtime
You can get it at https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

• Cap -maxplayers at 33 to fix a client crash
• Fix crash on crouch on multiplayer dedicated servers
• Updated to 1.2.1 (this solution is temporary, breaks usage with older versions of the game)

v0.4

Now requires VC++ 2019 runtime
You can get it at https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

• Fix -maxplayers being capped at 2
• Fix crashes on multiplayer dedicated servers

v0.3

• Fix -vrdev and -vrdebug
• Add support for quoted paths in -game
• Fix crash when using -game without any other arguments

Initial release

• Adds non-vr support to modern versions of the game
• Adds support for loading mods using -game
• Enables all convars (adds back vr_enable_fake_vr_test but also pretty nice for datamining schema stuff using schema_ commands)
• Support for all versions of the game (tested on 1.1, 1.2 and the preload non-vr supporting version)
• Support for dedicated servers (using -dedicated -allow_no_lobby_connect)
• Support for running mods in VR mode using -vr

Usage:

• Place this dll into Half-Life Alyx\game\bin\win64
• Create a copy of "hlvr.exe" called whatever you would like (gonna be using "hlnonvr.exe" in this example)
• Open the executable ("hlnonvr.exe") in a hex editor
• Find the string engine2 (not the string Failed to load the engine2 DLL though) (in 1.2 it's at 0x10FB8)
• Replace (don't add any bytes, overwrite existing ones) the string engine2 with hlnonvr
• You can now use this executable to run HLA (or mods using -game) in nonvr mode (no -nonvr flag or similar needed)