Multi-Res Shading Support for UE 4.13 Now Available on Github

[HardOCP News]

Multi-Res Shading has been added to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.13. You can download the latest build here but it should be noted that you'll need a free Unreal Engine Github account to access it. If you continue to get a 404 error, you might have to link your Unreal Engine account to your GitHub account.

Multi-Res Shading is an innovative rendering technique for VR whereby each part of an image is rendered at a resolution that better matches the pixel density of the lens corrected image. Multi-Res Shading uses Maxwell or later architecture features to render multiple scaled viewports in a single pass, delivering substantial performance improvements in pixel shading. MRS is intergrated into our custom branch of Unreal 4.

 

[defaultluser]

Sounds like another optimization that Nvidia is bringing to the table to shame AMD's piss-poor VR showing.

The feature is already implemented in Raw Data, so I expect it'll be making the rounds:


I guess it wasn't available back in August when [H] did their review, so it might be worth a revisit:

What is Raw Data and VR All About - AMD and NVIDIA GPU Vive VR Performance in Raw Data

 

[MavericK]

That Reddit article is from 2 months ago. As far as I know, Raw Data doesn't seem to support any of the nVidia-specific VR techniques (yet?).

If they are referring to the "Multi-Res Off / 1 / 2" option at the bottom of the Raw Data menu, that's been in there for a long time now.

 

[defaultluser]

That Reddit article is from 2 months ago. As far as I know, Raw Data doesn't seem to support any of the nVidia-specific VR techniques (yet?).

If they are referring to the "Multi-Res Off / 1 / 2" option at the bottom of the Raw Data menu, that's been in there for a long time now.

Well then, that's completely pointless. Guess we'll be waiting until next year for games to support this then?