Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 helps PC VR headsets, though you’ll additionally want a fairly beefy rig to even run it. Now, gamers are getting the much-requested fastened foveated rendering characteristic, saving on compute and boosting efficiency.
Microsoft Flight Sim followers have been ready for native assist for foveated rendering for a while now, and now developer Asobo Studio has pushed its ‘Sim Replace 2’ beta which brings each fastened foveated rendering to the sport.
Foveated rendering is a way that lowers the decision in your peripheral imaginative and prescient, lowering your GPU’s workload and upping frames per second (FPS) you may render. When activated within the VR Settings menu, it makes use of Quad View rendering, which might add to your CPU overhead, the studio warns.
Whereas fastened foveated rendering is accessible to all PC VR headset customers who opt-in to the beta replace at present, there’s no phrase on when to anticipate dynamic foveated rendering, which permits customers with eye-tracking much more efficiency positive factors.
Dynamic foveated rendering does this by solely rendering the place you’re trying on the highest high quality, leaving all else outdoors of your focal imaginative and prescient to be rendered at low decision. After all, a PC VR headset with eye-tracking is required for this, which in comparable purposes can double efficiency.
It does appear to be within the works although, as Asobo says within the settings display above “it may be used with Eye-Monitoring when accessible for finest use,” though the corporate hasn’t supplied a timeline when it should activate the characteristic.
That mentioned, Asobo is working with Pimax, which has been an official peripheral accomplice for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 since November, to convey this and different VR-specific options to sport.
Notably, we haven’t seen point out of any of this within the official Sim Replace 2 changelog, so we’ll be keeping track of YouTuber ‘VR Flight Sim Man’, who usually dives into MFS2024, and was additionally one of many first to report the brand new fastened foveated rendering characteristic. You’ll be able to try his video beneath exhibiting off the brand new efficiency positive factors.
