Game Settings Guide

How to open

Open Game Settings from the VSA sidebar.

Game Settings screen

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Game Settings controls VRChat photo import, log parsing, OSC communication, and the optional startup plugins. Changes are saved automatically; there is no Save button. The Game Settings panel under Settings contains only Display Settings (folders and OSC); open the three-tab screen from the sidebar.

Some current labels in these screens are Japanese even when the rest of the app is localized.

Note (Integral parameters) Some Integral camera parameter values may not be recorded or displayed correctly in the current implementation.

Tabs

The top tab bar contains three tabs:

Monitoring status

The current screen does not have a manual start/stop monitoring switch. Monitoring starts according to the app configuration, and the sidebar shows its current status. Keep VSA running with a watch folder configured to import new screenshots automatically.

Display Settings

Folder settings

Watch folder

Select the folder where VRChat saves screenshots by clicking Change. The usual default is:

C:\Users\[Username]\Pictures\VRChat

VSA watches this folder for new game screenshots. The Watch interval (seconds) field offers 1–60 seconds in the UI and defaults to 10 seconds.

Output folder

Enable Change output folder to show the output-folder selector. The setting becomes active after you choose a folder; when it is off, VSA uses the VRChat folder.

After choosing an output folder, VSA checks the watch folder for VSA-managed photos.

The watch folder itself, a parent/child folder of it, and a folder that does not exist cannot be selected. The migration dialog has no cancel action.

Use Reset to return to the default output behavior. Automatic JXL archives follow the current photo output folder in its VSA-Archive subfolder.

Log folder

VSA reads VRChat logs from this folder to obtain world and user information and to build the Time Machine timeline. When unset, the OS default is used.

The usual log folder is:

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat

OSC settings

OSC (Open Sound Control) lets VSA receive camera parameters from VirtualLens2, Integral, FishEye, and TelePortraitLens.

VRChat’s standard pairing is VSA receive 9001 and VSA send 9000. If another OSC application uses a port, change the corresponding values on both sides. If the receive port is busy, VSA may move to another port and show a warning.

Automatic saving

Switches save immediately; numeric fields save after input settles. Folder-selection and migration results are shown in notifications, while plugin failures appear on the card. The Game Settings screen has no manual Save settings button.

Plugins

Use the switch on each card to enable or disable a plugin. Click a card to see its current state and details. Cards show Needs attention or Unavailable when the environment or an external setting prevents normal operation.

Start VSA with VRChat (Steam)

Starts VSA when VRChat is launched from Steam. This is available for Steam VRChat on Windows (App ID 438100).

Launch VRChat when Virtual Desktop connects

After Virtual Desktop and the headset connect, VSA launches VRChat only when VRChat is not already running. This is available on Windows and requires VSA to be running.

VRChat outage notifications

VSA checks the official VRChat status and notifies you about outages and maintenance every 5 minutes. The plugin detail view provides switches for:

The detail view also shows the overall status, possible stale data, last check, next update, online player count, maintenance, unresolved incidents, and per-component server status. Manual refresh has a 60-second cooldown. View official details opens the official VRChat status page.

Time Machine

Search and review events parsed from VRChat logs. A correct log-folder setting is required.

Filters

The event table shows time, event type, world, and user. Click a user name to filter by that user; use Clear to remove it. Refresh reloads the list, which is paginated at 50 events per page.

Troubleshooting

Photos are not imported automatically

  1. In Display Settings, verify that the watch folder is the actual VRChat screenshot folder.
  2. Leave VSA running and check that the sidebar reports folder monitoring.
  3. Check the watch interval (1–60 seconds in the UI) and confirm that a new image is created in the selected folder.
  4. Check folder read permissions and whether security software is blocking VSA.

World or user information is missing / the timeline is empty

  1. In Display Settings > Log folder, select the folder that contains VRChat logs.
  2. After VRChat records a world move or user event, check a new photo or refresh the timeline.
  3. If no log exists, launch VRChat, enter a world once, and check whether a log is created.

OSC camera information is missing

  1. Enable OSC communication.
  2. Enable OSC in VRChat and verify VSA receive 9001 / VSA send 9000 (or the corresponding custom values).
  3. Enable OSC output in the camera you use (VirtualLens2, Integral, FishEye, or TelePortraitLens).
  4. Check for port conflicts and firewall rules. Also check whether VSA warned that it moved the receive port.

The Steam plugin cannot be changed

Quit Steam completely and retry. If the card says Needs attention, review VRChat’s Steam Launch Options and preserve wrappers or arguments belonging to other applications while adjusting only the VSA portion.

Server status does not update

Check the network connection and try Manual refresh. Manual refresh cannot be run again during its 60-second cooldown. If data may be stale, compare it with the official status page.