Last month NVIDIA came out and introduced a new feature for their RTX graphic card. The Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) applies to VR games when it is trying to save GPU resources. With a new driver yesterday, VRSS now has support of five new games, all which of seem to be pretty popular in the PC VR spaces.
The five games that now have support are:
- VRChat
- Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
- Doctor Who
- PokerStarsVR
Each of those five have seen their time in the SteamVR top selling pages for VR games. These are some of the best-done games in the virtual space, and this supersampling isn’t going to waste here.
VRSS was designed to be a more efficient way to supersample virtual games. The traditional supersampling is sharpening the entire virtual frame, but if you are familiar with VR, that isn’t the best thing. There are parts of the frame that are going to be blurred by the edge of the screen anyway, so sharpening them doesn’t do much good.
VRSS is ensuring that the newest feature on the RTX GPU’s are taken advantage of. It is applying the supersampling to the center of the image, right where it matters most to the user. This not only gives the gamer a better experience, but this also saves GPU compute by not optimizing other parts of the screen.
In a test ran by Nvidia, they claim that when playing Boneworks, they averaged 120 FPS with a 4x VRSS. This was compared to an average of 75 FPS when running with 4X traditional supersampling.
The VRSS doesn’t require anything special with developer implementation, but it is only going to work with games based on DX11 or those with forward renderers that support MSAA. Because of this, Nvidia is simply manually activating support for the feature with VR games they have manually tested for a set time frame.
Activation
To activate the VRSS supported games on your PC, the steps are simple. Open the Nvidia control panel and select the ‘manage 3D settings’ tab. Find the ‘Virtual Reality – Variable Rate Supersampling’ section and toggle it onto ‘Adaptive’. This will optimize it best for each VR game you play.
List of Games
With the five games announced yesterday, the total of games available with VRSS is now up to 31. We are certain that they will continue to add games as they are tested. For a full list of games that can support the Variable Rate Supersampling, you can check that out below.
- VRChat
- Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
- Doctor Who
- PokerStarsVR
- Battlewake
- Boneworks
- Eternity Warriors VR
- Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
- In Death
- Job Simulator
- Killing Floor: Incursion
- L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files
- Lone Echo
- Mercenary 2: Silicon Rising
- Pavlov VR
- Raw Data
- Rec Room
- Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
- Robo Recall
- SairentoVR
- Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
- Skeet: VR Target
- Shooting Space Pirate Trainer
- Special Force VR: Infinity War
- Spiderman: Far from Home
- Spiderman: Homecoming – Virtual Reality Experience
- Talos Principle VR
- The Soulkeeper VR
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