VR Performance Measurement with OCAT

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The open source measurement tool on github OCAT turned version 1.2 and supports now all major VR devices with an overlay in HMDs.

Anybody into measuring performance of VR should have a look at OCAT and give it a try. System requirements are Windows 7/10 in 64bit.

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From the readme:

  • New settings options
  • Overlay position is adjustable
  • Recording output path can be specified
  • Custom user notes for summaries
  • Recording delay setting
  • Recording detail level (simple, normal, verbose)
  • Red dot in the overlay to denote recording
  • VR support!
  • Overlay is now shown inside the HMD for OpenVR and libOVR supported devices
  • HTC Vive, Oculus devices, Windows Mixed Reality all supported
  • Statistics support for WMR applications via PresentMon
  • Custom ETW logging for SteamVR and Oculus compositor providers
  • New configuration to disable event logging for VR compositors
    • Read Capture Config
  • Visualisation tool
  • Visualise frame times, reprojections for HMD systems and common session statistics
  • Detailed session visualisation is available using the Select Session tab
  • Visualise multiple session recordings together
  • Save visualised sessions as PDF
  • System information
  • Where possible, OCAT now collects detailed system information including
  • Mainboard, OS, CPU, RAM, GPU driver version, number of GPUs
  • Detailed GPU information where possible:
    • AMD: GPU name, core clock, memory clock, memory size
    • Nvidia: GPU name, core clock, memory size
    • Intel: GPU family, core clock, memory size

For downloading an executable go here

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OCAT turned version 1.3
ocat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#

Changelog

1.3.0 - 2018-12-13

Notes

  • Please make sure to uninstall any previous release before installing 1.3.0
    • There is a known issue that prevents the installer from succeeding that will be fixed in a future release!

Added

  • Reworked UI
    • Changed to make it much more intuitive to use
      • New Overlay, Capture, Launch App and Visualize tabs
      • Overlay tab controls overlay configuration
      • Capture tab controls capture settings
      • Launch App tab controls overlay injection settions for a single application
      • Visualize tab launches the visualizer!
      • Read OCAT usage for more detailed information
  • User-supplied blacklist
    • OCAT maintains its own internal blacklist, but also lets you provide your own
      • That ensures OCAT doesn’t remove your own blacklist settings when OCAT is updated
      • See Blacklist for more detailed information
  • Launching Steam apps via Steam AppId
    • Allows OCAT to work with many more Steam games and lets the explicit hook work in more cases
    • Read Launch App for more detailed information

Changed

  • System specifications added to the first line of the verbose log

Fixed

  • Lots of game and application compatibility bugs!
    • See GitHub issues and the new Steam AppId support for more details
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Ocat turned version 1.4
https://ocat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#id1

1.4 - 2019-03-15

Notes

  • New version numbering scheme: major.minor.build (used to be major.minor.0.build)
    • That pesky zero broke things so we nuked it from orbit

Added

  • Audible indicators for starting and stopping recording
    • Helps when the overlay isn’t compatible or available
  • Overlay now prints the graphics API being used
  • Rolling plot of frame times added to overlay
  • 95th and 99.9th percentile frame times in the performance summary
  • FCAT-style per-frame coloured bar

Changed

  • Hotkey hooking method changed to Windows’ global hooking

Fixed

  • Windows 7 compatibility
  • Destination folder for captures is properly remembered between launches
  • Properly deactivate the Vulkan overlay layer on OCAT crash
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A new version was released

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