Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 helps PC VR headsets, though you’ll additionally want a reasonably beefy rig to even run it. Now, gamers are getting the much-requested mounted 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 mounted 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’ll be able to 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 mounted foveated rendering is obtainable to all PC VR headset customers who opt-in to the beta replace in the present day, there’s no phrase on when to anticipate dynamic foveated rendering, which permits customers with eye-tracking much more efficiency beneficial properties.
Dynamic foveated rendering does this by solely rendering the place you’re wanting on the highest high quality, leaving all else outdoors of your focal imaginative and prescient to be rendered at low decision. In fact, a PC VR headset with eye-tracking is required for this, which in comparable functions 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 obtainable for finest use,” though the corporate hasn’t offered a timeline when it’s going to activate the characteristic.
That stated, Asobo is working with Pimax, which has been an official peripheral companion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 since November, to carry this and different VR-specific options to recreation.
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 frequently dives into MFS2024, and was additionally one of many first to report the brand new mounted foveated rendering characteristic. You possibly can take a look at his video under exhibiting off the brand new efficiency beneficial properties.
