Release Notes

FidelityFX Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO) is a highly optimized adaptive sampling ambient occlusion implementation.

• Highly optimised native resolution SSAO
• Downsampled resolution SSAO quality improvements

FidelityFX Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO) is a highly optimized adaptive sampling ambient occlusion implementation.

Release Notes

• This is just a bugfix release to address an issue in the Vulkan sample, addressed by updating to Cauldron v1.2.1.

Prerequisites

• DirectX® 12 or Vulkan compatible GPU
• Windows® 10
• AMD driver 20.8.3 or later / Nvidia driver 445.87 or later

For building you also need

• CMake 3.4 or later
• Visual Studio 2017 or later
• Windows 10 SDK 10.0.17763.0 or later
• Vulkan SDK 1.2.141.2 or later

FidelityFX Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO) is a highly optimized adaptive sampling ambient occlusion implementation.

Release Notes

• Vulkan support!

Prerequisites

• DirectX® 12 or Vulkan compatible GPU
• Windows® 10
• AMD driver 20.8.3 or later / Nvidia driver 445.87 or later

For building you also need

• CMake 3.4 or later
• Visual Studio 2017 or later
• Windows 10 SDK 10.0.17763.0 or later
• Vulkan SDK 1.2.141.2 or later

Known Issues

The Vulkan version of the sample has a known TDR when used on AMD GPUs with the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.12.1 driver. If you hit that issue, please go back to Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.3 which is unaffected, ahead of the next release of FidelityFX CACAO which will fix it.

This is a sample build of FidelityFX CACAO. The code for this sample can be found at https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-CACAO.

Requirements: DirectX® 12 compatible GPU Windows® 10

For building you also need CMake 3.4 Windows® 10 SDK 10.0.17763.0 Visual Studio 2017