I'm turning Command & Conquer: Generals — Zero Hour into a VR game.
Not a remake, not a port to another engine — the original game, running natively in a VR headset. You stand over the battlefield like a general at a war table: look around the map, point a laser to select your units, give orders with the motion controllers, build your base, and resize yourself from "the whole war on a table" down to "standing among the tanks".
Early alpha — looking for testers. It's playable end to end (skirmish), but expect rough edges. Found a bug? Open an issue.
- Your own copy of Zero Hour — Steam (C&C Ultimate Collection), EA app, Origin, GOG, or a retail disc all work. This project contains none of the game's assets — it does not work without a real installation. (The launcher finds Steam/EA/GOG automatically; for anything else it asks you to point it at your game folder once.)
- Meta Quest 3 with Quest Link (cable or Air Link). Other PC VR headsets are untested.
- A Vulkan-capable gaming PC.
Before you start: install Zero Hour from Steam and launch it once, then install the Meta Quest Link app, connect the headset, and set Meta as the active OpenXR runtime (Quest Link app → Settings → General).
Then:
- Download
GeneralsVR-v*.zipfrom the latest release. - Extract it into its own folder (right-click → Extract All, or drag it out of the zip). Anywhere is fine — your Desktop or Downloads.
- Open that folder and double-click
START-GeneralsVR.- Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app — that's normal for an unsigned community mod; click More info → Run anyway.
- It'll ask for administrator permission once (to write the registry entries the game needs) and put a GeneralsVR shortcut on your desktop.
- Put the headset on, press Enter in the launcher, start a Skirmish, and look around.
From then on just use the GeneralsVR desktop shortcut.
Tip: the headset only shows the battlefield — it stays dark in the menus. You won't see anything until you're actually in a skirmish.
Your Zero Hour install is never touched. Everything lives in its own folder
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\GeneralsVR) — no game files are copied or changed. To uninstall, delete that
folder and the desktop shortcut (or run GeneralsVR.ps1 -Uninstall).
The launcher auto-updates to my newest build every time you play. If an update ever breaks something for you, press V in the launcher and pick the previous version — you stay on it until you switch back.
Instead of the zip, you can download GeneralsVR-Setup.cmd from the release and run it — it
downloads and sets everything up for you, no extracting. The zip above is the manual route and
does exactly the same thing.
See VR-CONTROLS.md.
- EA's official source release of Generals/Zero Hour (GPL v3) — the game code itself.
- TheSuperHackers/GeneralsGameCode — the community project that modernized that code so it builds and runs today. This repo is a fork of it; everything VR is mine, everything else is theirs and upstream's.
- DXVK — translates the game's ancient DirectX 8 rendering to Vulkan, which is what makes a modern VR pipeline possible at all.
- OpenXR SDK — the open standard that talks to the headset.
Yes. EA released this game's source code under the GPL v3 in 2025, and GeneralsVR is a modification of that source, published under the same license. No EA assets, art, audio or data are distributed — all of that stays inside your own Steam installation.
I build this as a solo developer, and I fund the time for it between freelance gigs. If you're enjoying GeneralsVR and you're able to, sponsoring me makes a real difference: the more support this gets, the more freelance work I can turn down and the more time goes straight into VR.
And the bigger plan — once Zero Hour is solid, I want to bring the other Command & Conquer games into VR too. Every sponsor gets me closer to making that the main thing I do. No pressure at all if you can't; starring the repo and sending bug reports helps just as much. 🫡
GPL v3 — see LICENSE.md.