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CURTROCK
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April 1, 2013
Question

PC specs, Oculus requirements...

It would be great if users could share their PC system specs and general performance with the Rift. Ideally, I would like to sample enough users to come up with a "minimum requirements" & "recommended requirements" baseline for best performance on a PC. Please post reply with a short message indicating:

1. Processor type & speed
2. Video Card make & model
3. Amount of RAM
4. Anything else relevant to Rift performance
5. Your impression of the performance of the Rift, on your system

Thanks in advance!

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    Ophtalmos
    Participant
    March 14, 2014
    I use a 4.5 year old laptop with an old NVidia card. Works for most demos without problems. I use a screen resolution of 1200 x 800 as recommended.
    saviornt
    Up and Coming
    March 15, 2014
    From all of the reviews and reports that I have read, a GTX 780 TI > Titan, and what, 200? 300? dollars less.
    Current WIPs using Unreal Engine 4: Agrona - Tales of an Era : Medieval Fantasy MORPG
    Morpheox
    Up and Coming
    March 15, 2014
    "saviornt" wrote:
    From all of the reviews and reports that I have read, a GTX 780 TI > Titan, and what, 200? 300? dollars less.


    For gaming its definetly better and cheaper.
    mdk
    Up and Coming
    March 22, 2014
    Intel Core i7-3930K (stock speed)
    32GB DDR3
    2 x Geforce GTX 780

    Performance is great. I don't use SLI on rift demos.
    mariom
    Up and Coming
    March 22, 2014
    I've been reading a few reviews of the Geforce 800m series, and from the GTX 860m and up, I'd say laptops are well enough equipped for VR. (Of course the desktop versions will be better, but if you need/want a laptop for this, it's totally possible.)
    Anonymous
    March 23, 2014
    "Ophtalmos" wrote:
    I use a 4.5 year old laptop with an old NVidia card. Works for most demos without problems. I use a screen resolution of 1200 x 800 as recommended.


    What is the required monitor resolution for the DV2? I have a Dell monitor, but is only capable of 1680x1050.

    i5-3570K
    AMD 7970

    I am hoping i will be able to run the rift on this setup.
    us11csalyer
    Inspiring
    March 25, 2014
    For the DK2, how will a 3570K @ 4.2Ghz, 8gigs ddr3 1600Mhz CLS9, WD Black HDD secondary drive (for games), and 2 GTX 660SC 2GB cards handle current demos?

    I'm also about to begin work on a demo and would like opinions on this: With oculus rift, do you visually feel you're in the game, or does it feel more like a 3D monitor with depth perception?
    jaywalker
    Up and Coming
    March 26, 2014
    Hoping my aging machine will be able to cope well when my DK2 arrives. Core 2 Duo @ 3ghz, 6gb RAM and a 9800gt 1gb. Not great I know, but I'm planning to develop pretty simple VR games to target lower end PCs (how convenient!).

    I recently tried the DK1 on a laptop with an i7 @ 2.4ghz and a Geforce GTX 780m and it handled all the demos I could find pretty flawlessly.
    read about my various makings and doings: http://www.brandonfoltz.com
    BabyTaco
    New Participant
    June 28, 2015
    will
    i5-3230m
    6gb Ram
    64-bit
    intel hd 4000 graphics
    2.60 ghz
    work?
    kojack
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    July 1, 2015
    With intel hd 4000 even the simplest demos will be slide shows, it's very underpowered.
    (I've used a hd4400 with the rift, horrible performance)

    Have a look here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Intel+HD+4000
    The hd4000 gets a benchmark score of 454. The GTX970 (which Oculus recommend) gets 8637.
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