ShaderBeam v0.2

New release focusing mainly on reducing input lag and QoL features:

• Window Input mode: you can narrow down capture to your game's window which provides lower latency and more timing information to ShaderBeam
• Run shader frame-ahead when anti-retention not required: if you don't need anti-retention (i.e. you have an OLED, or LCD with odd number of subframes, or disable it manually) the shader will fast-forward a frame and remove one content frame of input lag
• Auto-sync new frames to Capture timing: when your input is frame-limited, ShaderBeam will automatically try to sync capture to game presentation; this works most reliably with Window Input; removes up to one frame of input lag in best-case scenario
• Allow adjusting DXGI queued frames: you can adjust how many frames are queued, driver default is 3 but you may be able to take it lower; if it's too low, you will start to see flashing/desyncs; these are output (high-refresh) frames
• Basic HDR support: same as in ShaderGlass/BFI, capture and present using HDR; this is not really feasible with an iGPU due to extra bandwidth requirement
• More detailed Benchmark breaking down cross-GPU Copy FPS, render FPS and present FPS to better identify bottlenecks on dual GPU setups
• Remember settings in an .ini file

ShaderBeam v0.2 prerelease

Pre-release of the next version of ShaderBeam, focusing mainly on reducing input lag:

• Window Input mode: you can narrow down capture to your game's window which provides lower latency and more timing information to ShaderBeam
• Run shader frame-ahead when anti-retention not required: if you don't need anti-retention (i.e. you have an OLED, or LCD with odd number of subframes, or disable it manually) the shader will fast-forward a frame and remove one content frame of input lag
• Auto-sync new frames to Capture timing: when your input is frame-limited, ShaderBeam will automatically try to sync capture to game presentation; this works most reliably with Window Input; removes up to one frame of input lag in best-case scenario
• Allow adjusting DXGI queued frames: you can adjust how many frames are queued, driver default is 3 but you may be able to take it lower; if it's too low, you will start to see flashing/desyncs; these are output (high-refresh) frames
• Basic HDR support: same as in ShaderGlass/BFI, capture and present using HDR; this is not really feasible with an iGPU due to extra bandwidth requirement
• Remember settings in an .ini file

ShaderBeam v0.1

First public beta of ShaderBeam! It supersedes ShaderGlass/BFI for testing Blur Busters' CRT Beam Simulator on your desktop!

Please make sure to read the front page for guide and usage tips.

Feedback thread here: #2