Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.2.1 Fixes Crashes and Many Other Issues - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 May 2020 / 2,037 Views

Valve Software has released an update for Half-Life: Alyx that fixes a wide range of issues with the game. This includes fixes to several bugs that caused crashes, issues with carrying contained object, and more.

Half-Life: Alyx is a virtual reality game that is available now for Windows PC via Steam.

Read the patch notes for Update 1.2.1 below:

Fixes for issues with carrying contained objects (e.g. objects in a crate).
Fix for hand orientation on Windows MR and Vive systems.
Fixes some missing haptic feedback on Windows MR and Vive systems.
Fix for controller systems that don’t have support for skeletal hand animation.
Fix for exhausting GPU memory on Proton.
Fixes several crashes.
Fix for not properly falling back to English subtitles when selecting a language in Steam that is unsupported by Half-Life: Alyx.
Improved rendering of Japanese narrow subtitles.
Fixed a regression which rendered an empty subtitle panel even if the subtitles were only visible in the spectator window.
Localization improvements in multiple supported languages.

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