1.9.8

Rift 1.9.8

Performance

• Hardware-accelerated screen sharing. Your screen share now encodes with H.264, which cuts CPU usage while streaming.
• Rift stops working while you're gaming. When the window wasn't focused it kept drawing in the background anyway, burning CPU the whole time you were in another app. It now properly idles.

New

• MP4 video and AAC audio play properly. Clips and attachments that used to play silently, or not at all, now have sound. MP3 works too.
• Resource monitor (Ctrl+Shift+O). A live per-process breakdown of what Rift is using, so you can see exactly where memory or CPU is going.

Fixed

• Desktop notifications now actually appear. The popup outside the app was failing every time it tried to show, so notifications only ever appeared inside Rift.
• Ctrl+Shift+I no longer opens developer tools on top of developer tools.

Known issues

• The experimental see-through window is unavailable in this build and its toggle in Settings does nothing. The new rendering mode can't do per-pixel transparency. It'll return if a fallback is added.