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Recent content by geo_gan

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    Plugins + Scripts CPU Performance Patch (Up to 30% faster physics, up to 60% more FPS)

    I had that latest VAM patch but this massive performance improvement (on 5950X) is much more important to me than some security patch, so I replaced the DLL with this faster version, and seems to be working fine with it, and back to "two characters in fancy lighting scene still faster than...
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    Probably at most... since a lot of the new AI based upscaling/multiplying features are unusable in VAM and VR unfortunately. Only speed ups would come from an increase in shader cores and the increase in power to run them faster.
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    VAM downloads VAR files from hub which are actually HTML error pages without user knowing

    FYI: here is a better command to find these corrupt VARs which is much faster than scanning entire AddonPackages folder - this limits to VAR files only and only file-sizes less than 500Kb which is usually what the HTML files are.... Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter "*.var" -File | where Length...
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    Are you running the patched (much faster multicore CPU physics) VAM in these runs or just default VAM? Can you do 2560x1440 benchmark run so I can compare with my own results at 2560x1440?
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    You should install the patch - it is an amazing piece of low-level software engineering and optimization - see the difference it made to me above (post #990). Patch changes low level physics/maths code to run in parallel instead of serial and will use many of your CPU cores to do the work...
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    OK finally got desktop runs working & done - the difference in performance between "original + full VAR folder" and this new "multi-core physics CPU patch + empty VAR folder" is staggering.... I doubt you'd get anywhere near this level of speedup if you went from a 3900X to a 9950X on original...
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    Thanks, I'll have a read of that... but I did notice a previous explanation on this thread also - in mean time I am actually just trying to run this latest v4 benchmark and I can't get it to finish a run at all... it keeps stopping before the end... tried both in VR in Pico4 over Virtual...
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    Benchmark Result Discussion

    Absolutely ridiculous that just having extra VAR files in VAM install degrades the performance so much - surely it has to be because of maybe a handful of VARs which do something continually in background, and not "normal" VARs right? Normal VARs which just contain some model you are not using...
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    VAM downloads VAR files from hub which are actually HTML error pages without user knowing

    The files ARE all there on the hub... I was able to painstakingly download all of them just now manually using the HTML link to the file inside each bad HTML. I said exactly how I was downloading them in my post above (in Package Manager "Scan Hub for Missing Packages"). It should be...
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    VAM downloads VAR files from hub which are actually HTML error pages without user knowing

    I noticed a lot of corrupt VAR files in my AddonPackages folder and when I examined them, they are actually some error HTML page which is named as original VAR filename (so hard to find without searching for HTML) I can't attach the problem VARs here as the uploader will not allow the VAR...
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    VD for passthrough

    Just got latest version of VD now and trying out the pass-through with VAM on PICO 4... the default black background in VAM (no light) is not the best key colour since most objects in scene also contain a lot of it and so disappear. How do you change the global background colour in VAM to be a...
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    Will the new Unity fees affect VAM 2.0 development?

    Exactly as intended - Unity developers too invested to drop and change to UE, so no choice but to pay.
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    Will the new Unity fees affect VAM 2.0 development?

    People are angry...
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    Strange hang loading a Preset Pack in scene - infinite loop loading

    I was trying to load latest scene from a Patreon creator there and for some reason latest VAM keeps hanging forever during scene load... I decided to do some file-system monitoring (using Process Monitor) to see if it was doing anything and noticed this strange infinite loop where the numbers...
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    Question Any way to control all motion/rotation with only one VR controller?

    I want to be able to use a single VR controller to move forward/back/up/down/rotate in a scene. Right now, it appears that VAM requires TWO controllers to do all these motions/rotations which is a PITA when only one hand is free in VR ;) Is there a plugin or way to do this?
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