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System Requirements for Rift to run smoothly.
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have no experiences to share on the Rift itself, but my guess is it won't tax your hardware in any significant way, leaving your CPU & GPU as the main bottlenecks. The CPU certainly isn't high end, but should be ok.
The HD graphics chip is probably the dealbreaker for any serious VR work (or even enjoyment) though. The latest HD 4000 integrated GPUs are just good enough to run modern games/graphics engines at low detail settings, and those are recognized to be a huge improvement over previous generations.
It you had a desktop I'd say slap a 100-150$ GPU in there and you're good to go. Luckily there are quite affordable gaming-capable notebooks out there. Anything from a Geforce 640M upwards (or Radeon 8750 up) would be a huge step up for graphics Performance and sufficient unless you want to really max out graphical settings.
have no experiences to share on the Rift itself, but my guess is it won't tax your hardware in any significant way, leaving your CPU & GPU as the main bottlenecks. The CPU certainly isn't high end, but should be ok.
The HD graphics chip is probably the dealbreaker for any serious VR work (or even enjoyment) though. The latest HD 4000 integrated GPUs are just good enough to run modern games/graphics engines at low detail settings, and those are recognized to be a huge improvement over previous generations.
It you had a desktop I'd say slap a 100-150$ GPU in there and you're good to go. Luckily there are quite affordable gaming-capable notebooks out there. Anything from a Geforce 640M upwards (or Radeon 8750 up) would be a huge step up for graphics Performance and sufficient unless you want to really max out graphical settings.