xvAresvx

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Except the whole point of deleting is to free up disk space temporary, at the moment I have nowhere to backup it as I am data hoarder with tens of TB of full disks and I just need to temporary remove VAM and all addons for few days then reinstall everything I had from the HUB.
terabox cloud for one terabyte for free upload your custom folder there and AddonPackages well, you can upload scenes there too! and then when you need it, download it all and add it to the newly installed VAM
 

kraumpel

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Hey just wanted to know if i could do something about the game not opening and just giving me a black screen. I downloaded the full game and all but everytime i launch it, its just a black screen. Any help on how to fix it?
 

theMickey_

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...everytime i launch it, its just a black screen...
Did you start it in desktop or VR mode? How long did you wait for the "game" (it's not a game though) to load?
Depending on your hardware, this might take up to several minutes.
 
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I disagree. It's totally worth it. Setting it up is pretty simple:
1. Download a scene you like
2. Download an appearance you like
3. ???
4. Profit!
It's not that simple. To really use VaM, sort change stuff, modify atoms, etc. VaM has quite a steep learning curve and it's really not user friendly.
That being said. If you put in some time, ignore/forget some frustration it's quite worth it.
 

arenem

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Is there a way to remove older versions of var files? Some kind of tool or script
As far as I know, the most reliable way is to just regularly do a manual check of your addonpackages folder and move older versions of non-plugin VARs to a folder somewhere else on your hd (or delete them if you're sure they are not needed).

Older versions of plugins should stay in your addonpackages folder, as sometimes other VARs that depend on that particular version of the script won't work properly.

Morph packages are a bit of an exception though, and any VARs that just contain morphs can be unpacked into the correct folders, and then removed from addonpackages. Looks and appearances don't care where the morphs they depend on come from (despite the error log messages about missing VARs), so having them all stored in your custom/atom/person/morphs folder is fine.

If you do that, you'll get a load of subfolders in each of your morph folders. Merge all the subfolders in Morphs/female and remove any exact duplicates (but move ones with different file-sizes into a subfolder, as some different morphs have the same name). Then do the same for Morphs/female genital, etc. It speeds up load times and makes look creation easier due to not having thousands of duplicate morphs. Just to note that if you plan to release scenes dependent on those morphs, you'll have to include the morphs in your VAR or use morph merger to make a custom morph, or just use a separate install (with the morph packages as VARs) for content creation intended for distribution.
 
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brasileirinho

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It's not that simple. To really use VaM, sort change stuff, modify atoms, etc. VaM has quite a steep learning curve and it's really not user friendly.
That being said. If you put in some time, ignore/forget some frustration it's quite worth it.
You dont need all that complexity. This is gatekeeping. Go simple.
 

SortaLewd

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Anyone here have a 7900gre? Was considering it for my next rig upgrade and just curious how well it handles VaM(Desktop only). My current rig is 5600x and 6700xt.
 

evaw

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Anyone here have a 7900gre? Was considering it for my next rig upgrade and just curious how well it handles VaM(Desktop only). My current rig is 5600x and 6700xt.
4Desktop u need to upgrade cpu, not gpu (6700xt must be enough).
 

brasileirinho

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Anyone here have a 7900gre? Was considering it for my next rig upgrade and just curious how well it handles VaM(Desktop only). My current rig is 5600x and 6700xt.
There is a benchmark tool discussion thread in vam hub. Maybe there you can get better comparisons
 
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