Oculus Rift ASW 2.0 coming soon - will AC be supported?

ASW 2.0 is coming soon for Oculus Rift but requires the game to send a 'depth feed' to the SDK. This will be natively supported in ACC due to the Unreal engine, but my question is:
Does AC already send this depth data, and if not, do Kunos have plans to patch it in?

https://uploadvr.com/oculus-rifts-asw-2-0-could-greatly-reduce-artifacts-on-low-end-systems/

As a Rift user who has to have ASW forced in Assetto Corsa to get acceptable performance, I sincerely hope that Kunos will facilitate this. It looks to be a HUGE improvement.
Can a developer please comment?
Many thanks.

 

Great post @Mascot i was thinking the same thing. I run ASW all the time and now I don’t even notice it but version 2.0 would add just that extra bit of immersion on top of what we already have. I hope Kunos can look into this.

 

I just hope this post gets noticed by Kunos in the 'chit chat' section. It seemed to be where VR was discussed.
Maybe someone could post something similar in the ACC/VR section - it's probably where most of the traffic is these days.

 

Lets tag @pankykapus
But if you read this quote

It shouldnt need any extra work at all but "its just works" to quote Jensen.

 

Yeah, I already said that in my first post about ACC being natively supported. I was more interested in drawing attention to my query about AC by posting something similar in the ACC forums, where forum traffic is probably higher.

 

Yeah I know you did. But if its natively supported it shouldnt need anything extra and when ASW 2.0 is finally released it will be 2.0 without Kunos having to do any updates or anything to ACC?

Edit:
Im sorry! Do you talk about AC(1)?

 

Yep, It's needed for AC, not ACC.

 

I doubt Kunos will lift a finger for AC until after full ACC release and few cycles of patching.
Based on the description it doesn't sound like quick fix either and would require some serious changes to graphics engine.

 

If Kunos is too busy with the new game, maybe Ilja, who his doing all the heavy lifting in improving AC since Kunos has stopped, will be able to help.
As pankykapus mentioned "For games which use custom engines, ASW 2.0 could require significant effort on the developer’s part." since AC is a custom engine and Kunos said the development on AC is stopped and since the number of VR user is tiny tiny but noisy , I think we are on our own to have it done.

 

I suspect that would require source code patching, not mere shaders replacement.

 

I'll be extremely disappointed if Kunos don't patch this in, if indeed the current engine doesn't provide the data already.

 

While I agree that it would be great to have this and as an Oculus Rift owner with a few years old PC I would also benefit from it, I don't really understand why you would be extremely disappointed if the developers did nothing about it. They made it clear that the development of Assetto Corsa is finished and expecting anything new is not realistic in my opinion. It is possible that AC will be compatible or can be made compatible without the developer's help but expecting them to drop the development of their new game to patch their previous title for a very small percentage of the playerbase is not fair to them.

 

Erm.. OK.
Thanks.

Like I say, I'll be disappointed if it doesn't happen.

 

I really wouldn't hold your breath for this feature to be added in, I would guess unless a massive critical bug is found in AC I doubt there will be any further patches or updates.

 

I wouldn't even start hoping mate

 

You are just setting yourself up for disappointment. The most I would hope for is a comment from the devs and even that is quite a lot to ask in this situation, I wouldn't blame them for not getting involved in this when they have their hands full with the ACC development.
It would be great if someone more knowledgeable about the AC engine could enlighten us about the possibilities, I don't have time to investigate it myself at the moment.

 

Seeing that a patch would probably break the entire shaders mod, or most of it would have to be rewritten, i'd rather not have Kunos update the game. Don't get me wrong, i'd love to see ASW 2.0, but everything x4fab has done to the game would vanish at that exact day. And it would either be gone forever or would take quite a while to be recoded.

 

When they say 'could require', they just mean that some games/custom engines wont offer immediate external access to the depth buffer, which ASW2.0 requires. For those situations, re-configuring things so that the Oculus SDK could 'see' this could potentially be a non-trivial task(though not necessarily).

However, I think AC, having been a game that works with Nvidia 3D Vision, should offer this, as 3D Vision also requires this. It's not clear whether AC automatically offers this or if it needed some special driver permission or something, but as a game built with modding in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if it was immediately available. If not, it doesn't seem as though it'd be anything that'd require 'significant effort', either way.

My hunch would be that it will work with ASW 2.0 with no work on Kuno's part required. Though if something is required, even something properly trivial, I wouldn't expect Kunos to drop what they're doing to enable it. They seem full focused on ACC now.

 

Is this fact or speculation?

 

Part speculation, because noone knows how much about the exe and the pdb would be changed, and part fact, because x4fab said so himself. His patch is directly tied to that very specific exe file, which is also why unfortunately it will never work on the 32bit executable and also why fortunately it will never work with a cracked version of the game. I've seen people trying to get it work on cracked versions, failing and buying the game shortly after. It's like the best copy protection this game has right now, lol.