From 'VR fix.txt' in the main game folder.
If you have issues with the game opening in vr create a shortcut for LastHope.exe and add -nohmd to the end of the target
I have the same problem with the specific way the game is not working in VR (game only shows on normal desktop monitor - black image in HMD, and sound is being mirrored to HMD headphones ).
My problem is that I DO want to play it in VR, not that it is opening in VR but I don't want it to -
To clarify - I'm just making an educated guess here, but my understanding of that VR fix.txt sentence is
"If you are pissed off that your oculus library/home/dash window keeps autoloading when the game starts and you don't want it to, the -nohmd commandline parameter will stop LastHope.exe telling VR drivers to load."
This guess is borne out by the fact that when I DO set up such a shortcut, that is exactly what happens, i.e. the game does not load Oculus drivers, and indeed even when the Oculus Home/Dash is running, starting the game on desktop (regardless of real desktop or virtual VR desktop), there is no black screen on the VR HMD, and no sound is mirrored, it just runs as a normal desktop application.
So, ultimately we would like to know how to get LastHope.exe to work with VR HMD, not -nohmd. In my case, on Oculus Rift HMD
I can see that there are numerous graphics&sound&VR drivers in the Binaries\ThirdParty subdir tree including NVIDIA,Oculus,Ogg,OpenVR,PhysX,Vorbis,Windows,
But regardless of whether I have SteamVR (OpenVR) or Oculus Dash active, the LastHope.exe only ever gives a black screen in my Rift HMD.
Very unfortunate, as I can see that it seems to work for at least a few others, not sure what their HMD hardware is tho.