Please consider supporting PC Perspective and technical content through our Patreon: http://patreon.com/pcper Subscribe for more hardware videos! null Full story link: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-FCAT-VR-Preview-New-Performance-Tool Buy Oculus Rift: http://amzn.to/2lL8I97 Buy HTC Vive: http://amzn.to/2lLfH1K NVIDIA FCAT VR is comprised of two different applications. The FCAT VR Capture tool runs on the PC being evaluated and has a similar appearance to other performance and timing capture utilities. It uses data from Oculus Event Tracing as a part of the Windows ETW and SteamVR’s performance API, along with NVIDIA driver stats when used on NVIDIA hardware to generate performance data. It will and does work perfectly well on any GPU vendor’s hardware though with the access to the VR vendor specific timing results. The second part of the tool is in the processing of the results. NVIDIA built the FCAT VR Analyzer tool to import data that is output from the capture software and show frametime, dropped frames, warped frames, synthesized frames (space warp), reprojection, etc. By creating charts based on these data points a technical analysis of the performance can be created and reasonable and accurate assertions about the user experience can be compiled. Compared to the previous FCAT software, which required a dedicated hardware capture system, the new FCAT VR can be run in a software-only environment. This should help it gain considerably more traction with the online media as well as prove to be useful for end users that thrive on performance comparisons and online discussions. (Be prepared for the graphs to show up a lot on your favorite forum!)