After many weeks of tinkering I finally managed to find settings that allow me to play AMS2 in decent quality at decent framerate ànd capture a smooth video. I had to ditch NVENC and use X264 to capture straight from the game (and not SteamVR mirror) at a lower resolution, but the result is pretty nice!
My stupid 3090 can barely render this at 90fps driving solo but luckily I have a Valve Index which has an 80Hz failsafe. I can use that for AI races like this with only the occasional stutter. Turns out AMS2 is pretty well optimised rendering AI so it can still maintain 80fps in wet races which is amazing.
For this capture I set the Index to 120Hz and used quite high settings to force the GPU to render at half of 120 = 60fps. It renders every frame twice so it doesn't look good in the headset but it's a smooth 60. OBS only captures every frame once so it produces a smooth flowing 60fps video.
NVENC is still broken but my 10900K does a good job using X264 at 720p.
Enjoy!
28 сен 2024
