Stormland pulled from sale?
Hi I have some credit on my account and have been waiting for either a sale on Stormland or a discount store voucher that I get sent from time to time ..... however I did a search today and stormlan...
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Just beware with the Quest 2 streaming - we just tested Quest 2 and Index in OpenVR Benchmark, and using same res and 90 Hz the Index was a massive 30% faster (same rig tested, so same cpu, gpu etc - see the Index thread for details).
Maybe some think that 30% is a small price to pay for streaming - but it's an utterly giant price to pay. It means using the Quest 2, you may need a RTX 2080 to get similar performance as non-streaming GTX 1080 VR users. Or Quest 2 + RTX 3090 users may get similar performance as non-streaming 3070 Ti users - and over here the cheapest in-stock RTX 3090 costs $1,500 more than a RTX 3070 Ti - so cheap headsets using streaming may have giant hidden costs 😉 Even a small 10% streaming performance impact would be totally unacceptable with the extreme gpu prices we're experiencing today. A RTX 3090 is only 15-20% faster than a RTX 3080, so 30% streaming impact is severe or worse. You can find several posts on Reddit describing profound performance reductions when going from Rift-S to Quest 2. In short, if you have a Rift-S in the closet, maybe a great idea to use it for Stormland, because Stormland will take all the performance it can get and maybe still ask for more 😉
is that just streaming or over the usb cable as well. if it's just streaming it is no Biggie, just a nice optional extra for games which don't push your rig ..and then the more computationally expensive games you play wired over usb. but if it is all pcvr on the quest then that is a bigger issue.
it would be amusing if my reverb G2 ran stormland better than the oculus quest
I have not seen that there's any great performance difference of using cable or airlink for Quest 2, so the streaming impact should be there no matter your connection. Streaming is a demanding proces requiring both gpu and cpu power - but I was surprised to see a massive 30% performance reduction in the OpenVR benchmark.
Cable should provide fewer artifacts and less stuttering though.