Plugins + Scripts Auto Viewport Scale

[Vumbrix]

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Auto Viewport Scale - Keep your VR smooth, even when your scenes get heavy

Auto Viewport Scale — Adaptive VR Resolution​

Keep your VR smooth, even when your scenes get heavy.

Auto Viewport Scale is a lightweight Session Plugin for Virt-A-Mate that automatically adjusts VR rendering resolution based on performance.

When your FPS drops, the plugin gradually reduces the rendering scale to ease GPU load. When performance improves, it carefully increases the scale again to restore image quality.

The goal is simple: maintain your desired...

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[brasileirinho]

This sounds cool, but is there any way to stop lowering Resolution if GPU use is not near 100%? To prevent lowering resolution if the scene is CPU bottlenecked. Or this isn't even necessary due to the magic implementation?

 

[Vumbrix]

This sounds cool, but is there any way to stop lowering Resolution if GPU use is not near 100%? To prevent lowering resolution if the scene is CPU bottlenecked. Or this isn't even necessary due to the magic implementation?

Thanks for the feedback! That's a very good point.

The current version adjusts resolution based on FPS, without distinguishing between CPU and GPU bottlenecks. So yes, in CPU-limited scenes it may lower the resolution without actually improving performance.

I'm considering an optional safeguard for a future update: the plugin could check whether lowering the resolution actually improves FPS, and restore the previous scale if it doesn't.

It's not quite as simple as it sounds, especially with VR reprojection and fluctuating frame times, but I think it's worth exploring.

Have you encountered this issue in your own setup? I'd be interested to hear about your experience!