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System Requirements for Rift to run smoothly.
I would like to first introduce myself. I am currently a mathematics graduate student that has worked as a programmer in the video game industry in the past. Now days game design and programming are h...
My pc is by no means an uber power house. I have an AMD Phenom 2 955BE and a cheapy mobo. Not OC'ed at all also I had a radeon 4670 GPU. Total cost at purchase was $450 for entire pc. When I first got my rift, I had some graphical concerns because my frames per second were extremely low even at 1280x800 basically no demo was a playable as motion sickness occurred almost instantly.
I upgraded only my graphics, psu and monitor and now everything is playable. I bought a NVidia gtx760, an AOC 1080p monitor from BB and Corsair600 psu. Even after I upgraded my graphics and psu almost every demo I had was still instant nausea. This was due to my screen being 1600x900 resolution which is not an acceptable input for the Rift. This forced me to clone instead of extend which as it turns out induces latency. It was enough to cause vr sickness almost instantly. After the monitor purchase I can now extend 1080p to the rift. I have no noticeable latency issues and for the most part vr sickness has not occurred. it really just depends on the coding of the game for now. Half life 2 was the cause for motion sickness and now is fully playable.
I upgraded only my graphics, psu and monitor and now everything is playable. I bought a NVidia gtx760, an AOC 1080p monitor from BB and Corsair600 psu. Even after I upgraded my graphics and psu almost every demo I had was still instant nausea. This was due to my screen being 1600x900 resolution which is not an acceptable input for the Rift. This forced me to clone instead of extend which as it turns out induces latency. It was enough to cause vr sickness almost instantly. After the monitor purchase I can now extend 1080p to the rift. I have no noticeable latency issues and for the most part vr sickness has not occurred. it really just depends on the coding of the game for now. Half life 2 was the cause for motion sickness and now is fully playable.