New HTC Vive feature sets resolutions of your games to improve performance

By Nick Pino

VR headsets have had a shaky start despite their obviously awesome nature: PlayStation VR has sold only about 2 million units since its launch last year, while the golden standard of VR, the HTC Vive, has shipped even less.

One of the reasons that sales might not be rocketing through the roof is the HTC Vive’s relatively stringent specs list that asks users to have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290, and an Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 CPU.

But a new feature might just help you bridge the gap between your older hardware and that resource-hungry VR headset you’ve had your eye on: It’s called Application Adjustment Resolution and it’s available right now to try out in SteamVR.

Specifically, what the latest feature allows games on Steam to do is set custom rendering resolutions, separate of the headset’s own resolution.

In practice, that means you can render games at a lower resolution to be less hardware intensive – or, if your GPU isn’t hitting max capacity – request that the games be rendered at a higher resolution.

When is the Vive Pro coming out again?

Now, there could be any number of reasons …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming