I thought this was interesting, so I played around a bit in the 3 titles I use most; No Man’s Sky, Skyrim VR and Project Cars 2.
My results were mixed.
System:
AMD ryzen 7 3700X,
48 gig of DDR4,
Nvidia GTX 2080ti,
Pimax 8k
I started with NMS, SS at 1, Catalyst set to 10.
In space I was getting better frame rates (above 60fps) than usual with very little of the jerky flickering the Catalyst usually brings.
Landing on a planet got the jerky stuttering flickers, and, as it always does in NMS, the framerate dropped on planet.
So I experimented a little, because the in-space results were pretty impressive.
I dropped the catalyst to 4.75, and it was still pretty stuttery.
On a hunch I then enabled Smart Smoothing and restarted, leaving Catalyst at 4.75 and SS at 1.
This time, I got a solid 40fps on planet and in space, and no flickering at all, with one exception.
When turning or jumping fast, the very edges of the life and shield hud blur a little.
But overall, this is the best I’ve ever had NMS running on the Pimax.
Conclusion: a success.
Skyrim VR, SS1, Catalyst 10:
Not good, very jerky/flickery/stuttery. Framerates actually worse than I’d normally get.
Dialled catalyst down to 4.75, enabled smart smoothing, still too much jerkiness and no really good framerate gains.
Turned catalyst off, disabled smart smoothing, restarted, and got my old 40+ fps back.
Conclusion, failure so far.
Project cars 2.
SS1 catalyst 10: very jerky, no real framerate gains.
Catalyst 4.75 and smart smoothing on: still too much jerkiness, but I did notice if the framerate could get above 40fps steadily the jerkiness almost disappeared.
I turned down a few graphical options to improve the framerate and it was less jerky.
But I was getting next to no FPS gain in return for the lower settings and still some flickery stutters, so:
Conclusion, failure so far.
But if only for my gains in NMS this does seem interesting.
I will play around a bit more when I have time.
I wonder if the jerkiness of catalyst being seemingly removed bt smart smoothing tells us anything useful, or if I’m just misinterpreting something and barking up the wrong tree?