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Revision as of 21:01, 27 March 2020

Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx cover
Developers
Valve Corporation
Engines
Source 2
Release dates
Windows March 23, 2020
Half-Life: Alyx on Wikipedia

Warnings

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).
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Half-Life Deathmatch: Source 2006
Half-Life 2: Episode One 2006
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Portal (series)
Half-Life: Decay (unofficial port) 2008
Half-Life: Alyx 2020

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.
The game is also bundled with Valve Index (headset only, full set, or just controllers) units indefinitely.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\cfg\[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\game\hlvr\SAVE\S*\personal.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/546560/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\SAVE\S*\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/546560/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Performance Options
Performance Options

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

VR support

This game requires a virtual reality headset.
Headsets State Notes
SteamVR
Also native Valve Index support.
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Through SteamVR, no native Oculus SDK support.
Windows Mixed Reality
Through SteamVR.
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse
Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

Issues fixed

Subtitles and closed captions not working

If language that Steam client is set into is not supported by the game, no subtitles or closed captions will show at all.
Change Steam language into supported one[1]
  • Change Steam clients language into one of the ones supported by the game, e.g. English.
Copy subtitle file and rename it to match your Steam clients selected language[2]
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\resource\subtitles\
  2. Copy desired language for subtitles e.g. closecaption_english.dat, copy it into same folder and rename it into your Steam client language, e.g. closecaption_finnish.dat if your Steam client language is in Finnish.
  3. Navigate to <path-to-game>\game\hlvr\webui\localization\
  4. Repeat the process, copy e.g. hlvr_english.json and rename copy to e.g. hlvr_finnish.json

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

Enabling the console

Command line[3]
  1. See Command line arguments.
  2. Add -console -vconsole.
  3. Open the console by pressing ~.

Increase movement speed

Use the +hlvr_continuous_normal_speed 200 +hlvr_continuous_combat_speed 200 command line arguments[4]

Notes

hlvr_continuous_normal_speed is the standard movement speed when using continuous movement.
hlvr_continuous_combat_speed is the movement speed during combat when using continuous movement.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-7500
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM) 12 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
AMD Radeon RX 580
6 GB of VRAM
Total size after installation at March 23, 2020 was 68 GB.[5]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/546560/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (546560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. are subtitles working? [FIXED] :: Half-Life: Alyx General Discussion - last accessed on 2020-03-27
  2. Half-Life Alyx: How to Fix Subtitles not working - SteamA - last accessed on 2020-03-27
  3. Streaming and Spectating Guide
  4. Steam Community :: Guide :: Increase movement speed
  5. Verified by User:BesuBaru on 2020-03-23
    No official storage requirements, but the Steam installation size for "Half-Life: Alyx" is approximately 68 GB.