FlatVR 1.65 on the develop branch - optimisation update
A regular update, about frame rate with AI depth on: hardware GPU scheduling on the Status tab, the depth model in pieces paced to your frames, presets that watch the frames themselves, and a set of fixes. How to get it: right-click FlatVR in your Steam library → Properties → Betas → develop . To go back, pick last_stable . Settings survive either way. Cinema Mode no longer freezes and jumps "S…
Everything from 1.59 and 1.60 is in here too - those went out to the standalone build and never got a post of their own. Cropping black bars no longer stretches the picture. The crop worked only on the flat 2D path; with 3D on - which is how you actually watch a widescreen film - every slider gave you a stretch instead of a cut. The frame is now cropped once, on the way in, so the warp, the mes…
Two small features: the app window is resizable now, and you can pick the output picture quality instead of always paying for the maximum. Fixed: Vive trackers no longer fire on a light touch of the grip - holding a controller normally kept triggering it. And a crash hunt, guided by your reports. The biggest one: minimising or restoring the captured game window could crash FlatVR in the GPU dri…
Two crashes fixed. Stopping and starting FlatVR a few times in one sitting could bring the app down - a leak on every stop, introduced in 1.53, now gone. And restarting SteamVR while FlatVR was open could crash it the moment the runtime went away. The screen no longer judders or briefly changes size while you turn your head. Each frame was rendered for one head pose but handed to the headset st…
The depth add-on now speaks Vulkan, not only Direct3D - so a flat game that renders through Vulkan can finally get depth instead of being turned away at the door. It ships with the app as version 2.3 - run the add-on setup again for each game you use it with , because updating FlatVR does not touch the copy already sitting in a game folder. Picking the game is a list now, ranked by which graphi…
Everything we asked you to test on Develop has landed on the default branch, along with the work that came after it. Thank you to everyone who ran it and told us what broke - most of the fixes at the bottom of this post exist because somebody reported them. If you switched to develop to try it, switch back: right-click FlatVR in your Steam library -> Properties -> Betas -> pick None . Your sett…
We have pushed a big FlatVR update to the Develop branch and we would like you to test it. Here is what is new. If anything breaks or feels off, tell us - that is what the branch is for. Performance Mode: Cinema and Game · One slider instead of a dozen settings. Pick Cinema or Game and the app chooses the best AI depth model for your graphics card by itself. · It measures how long the model act…
Laptops with two graphics chips On most laptops the screen is wired to the integrated chip while the headset needs the discrete one, and Windows only lets a program copy a display through the chip that drives it. FlatVR could not capture the screen there at all. · Monitor capture works now : the monitor decides which chip captures, and the frame is carried to the one rendering. Confirmed on a l…
This cumulative update brings everything released between v1.33 and v1.42 : a rebuilt depth engine of our own, depth taken straight from games as old as the Direct3D 9 era, a room around the screen, the screen itself in your hands, and a panel that tells you what is wrong instead of going black. FlatVR 3D - Our Own Depth Engine · FlatVR 3D : our own depth projection algorithm, the default since…
v1.38 - released now · Smooth Opening Fill : the seam beside a near object is gone - the gap one eye sees around an edge is now filled without a step or a duplicate. · The depth stops breathing : the scale is carried between frames instead of being taken from each frame's own brightest and darkest speck, which removed the larger half of the frame-to-frame wobble on night footage. · ReShade pict…
🧠 New AI Depth Models Lineup (Distill Any Depth) · Higher Quality for Powerful GPUs : We have introduced a new lineup of heavy Distill Any Depth neural networks. Users with powerful graphics cards can now choose higher-resolution depth models (up to Ultra 1232x686) for significantly sharper, cleaner, and more detailed 3D depth maps. · Flexible Quality Rungs : Select from Distill Fast, Normal,…
a New Rendering Algorithm, Now the Default · Edges from the picture, not from the model : The depth map's edges are taken from the image itself instead of from a blur of the model's output, and each depth edge is resolved to one side of itself rather than smeared across it. · Thin things survive : Railings, branches and HUD text stop bleeding into the background, because the depth edge now land…
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