Steamless VS hdtSMP64

I'm not gonna put the actual instructions for cracking here since that's already on the sites of the tools you'll be using. I will only link the tools here and the rest will be up to you. The main tools for cracking are going to be Steamless, and Goldberg emulator. These tools can be a bit tedious on their own but someone has graciously made an auto cracker that requires you to download the first 2 tools and then automates the process for you.

FWIW people don't need to install visual studio and build Steamless from source, they can just download the release of Steamless from https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/latest

Steamless - for unpacking DOA6.exe.

If you wanna play those games you brought in steam you get yourself a steam emulator like goldberg's heres the link if you want to https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ (Note:It only works if you have a game protected with steam's DRM and if it dosent work go get steamless by Atm0s https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless/releases/tag/v3.1.0.3)

TH13 (Ten Desires) and onwards are all available on DLSite for digital purchase as well. Everything else before that up until PoFV are all on Steam. Everything before PoFV (excluding PC-98) are available for physical purchase through AKIBA-HOBBY. All aforementioned methods can be found on the wiki’s Purchasing Guide. You can also use Steamless (GitHub) to play any game on Steam you’ve purchased without DRM.

Well if u having trouble with the new ck and steam seems to be the culprit get Steamless, which cut ties with steam and makes ck standalone

A Steamless version of Skyrim is DRM-free, can roll back updates, and can be totally offline.

You can, if you strip the steam DRM off the game with steamless

Anything with an external launcher like Ubisoft Play or EA Origin have DRM checks. Steam has them as well to combat people selling accounts or piracy and requires that you be online every 2 weeks or so to play the game. Games that have no need for online and do not have an external launcher can be fixed by using Steamless to make a DRM free exe that can be run in offline mode. Having someone play on your pc and also play on your deck at same time without being kicked off of one of the games while BOTH being online works this way as well. This will not work with all games but if it only uses steam DRM and has no online features it will.

From what I understand the only compatible wind mod for FSMP (Faster HDT-SMP) is {{SMP Wind}} which is AE only. I was able to find Alandtse's for 1.5.97, but I had issues getting it working with FSMP without constant CTDs.

You want https://github.com/alandtse/hdtSMP64 and the bog-standard XPMSE, that's it. You don't need Nemesis/FNIS unless you need them for other stuff. Make sure your body mods support HDT and all is good to go.

dude... there is hdtSMP64 on github, with wind and multicore support. way faster than previous versions, and availible for both 1.5.97 and 1.6.353

HDT hair+clothing is working and performing really well in VR now - I'm using alandtse' branch ( https://github.com/alandtse/hdtSMP64 ), though I believe this has been merged into the latest version (as of one week ago) of Faster HDT-SMP on Nexus.

I went ahead and took karonar's faster hdt-smp and added another tweak for VR (here). This only uses physics for npcs in front of you in addition to the range check karonar added. This should be more performant then what aers posted on Nexus since that version is actually quite old and doesn't do any range or viewpoint checking.

Yes. See my github. This has Karona's 2021-06-01 code.