MSI AB / RTSS development news thread

New beta is in development. OverlayEditor plugin just got new cool features, allowing you to add complex animations to your overlays. Short demo video is available @ my channel:



Stay tuned!

 

It is a bit offtopic, but I just noticed that the last patch for Doom Eternal finally added an in-game option for disabling presentation from compute queue. It is not that important for the latest versions of Steam and RTSS overlays, which recently added special separate overlay rendering codepaths for present from compute mode, but this in-game option can be used to solve compatibility/performance issues with other overlays.

 

No ideas, sorry.

 

They don’t use D3D interop from the game. NVIDIA driver does that internally for Vulkan HDR applications.

 

New RTSS 7.3.0 beta 5 build 21820 is available:

http://download-eu2.guru3d.com/rtss/RTSSSetup730Beta5Build21820.zip​

It adds advanced animations support to OverlayEditor, which I already demontrated in my previous video. In addition to that, I've implemented the following new features/improvements:

- In the previous video I mentioned some critically important rules, which must be considered when referencing a data source from other data source's correction formula. I decided to simplify the process, so data sources order in no longer important in this case. I've added support for forward variables declaration in correcion formula translator, so now correction formulas can refrence other data sources even when they are defined in the list below.
- Initially animated embedded images used hardcoded 0.5 frame animation bias, which provided best result for round indicator sprites defined in sample overlay layout. However it was necessary to remove animation bias hardcoding to implement smooth passive looped animations (like rotated fan animation demonstrated in my previos video). So now there is new animation bias option in embedded animated image settings dialog. Animation bias affects target sprite selection rule. For example, if we map 0-110% range to 11 sprites animating round indicator, we'll see the following target sprite selection rule:

0-9% - sprite 0, 10-19% - sprite 1, 20-29% - sprite 2 ... 90-99% - sprite 9, 100% - sprite 10
and with animation bias set to 0.5 it changes to:
0-5% - sprite 0, 6-15% - sprite 1, 16-25% - sprite 2 ... 86-95% - sprite 9, 96%-100% - sprite 10

- Sample overlay layout includes animated GPU fan incidator now, created with approach demonstrated in my previous video.
- Sample overlay layout includes HDD and network usage/read/write/donwload/upload rates displayed as a table. It demontsrates both embedded table and performance counter based data sources usage.
- Sample overlay now displays CPU and GPU power consumptions. GPU power consumtion is monitored by the plugin itself, CPU is taken from MSI AB, AIDA or HwInfo (per your choice).
- I see that users didn't realize that embedded image colors can be blended with layer text color and changed this way. So now sample overlay demonstrates embedded image color blending on round CPU/GPU/RAM load indicators.
- I decided to simplify implementation of 1-to-1 pixel mapping for embedded images (discussed here). It is no longer necessary to increase specified width/height by 1 pixel to get exact pixel-to-pixel mapping. 8-bit palettized PNG images witha alpha, mentioned in that thread, are also supported properly now.
- This beta should address issue with Vulkan instance and device handle leak in Vulkan bootstrap layer, mentioned in this thread. So issue with RetroArch should be fixed.

Small video of stress-testing this functionality and refreshed overlay layout in DooM 2016:



Stay tuned!