The Official Blog of Patcoola

June 18th, 2019

Use your Oculus with Steam

Did you know, you can use your Oculus Rift with Steam. When you first try to run SteamVR or a VR game from Steam with your Oculus you will be blocked. This is not because Oculus is anti-competition, it’s because Steam is a different system. Oculus will block any application (app) or game that is not from the Oculus store by default. This is primarily for quality control and safety. The Oculus requires the use of the Oculus software/store to operate. Steam uses a variant of OpenVR. Although Oculus and Steam are different, Oculus can detect and add your SteamVR apps/games to your library for quick access. Enable running apps from an unknown source to use SteamVR.

August 13th, 2016

Ever wanted to know your computer’s performance with that new game, or how reviewer’s get their numbers. Steam has the solution for you. Steam can display your frames per second (FPS).

Go to your Steam “Settings” in your Steam client and select the “In-Games” menu then find “In-game FPS counter”. You’ll notice the drop down select button may display “off”, you can enable FPS by selecting any option other than “off”.

Steam -> Settings -> In-Games -> In-game FPS counter

November 7th, 2014

Steam’s trading cards look like away to make Steam money and get free games but is this really a sound or stable method of getting free stuff or does it actually costs you more money.

I’ll demonstrate the costs off participating in Steam trading cards and if it’s really worth it to you the consumer.

Note although, you don’t have to buy a game to collect cards and craft badges, the figures in this article focuses on purchasing games.