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Oculus Link on the GTX 1060 3gb

LantGames
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I am planning to buy the new Quest 2 as the visuals and price change are enticing to me but I looked at the Oculus Link compatibility page and noticed it said the GTX 1060 3gb isn't compatible, I was wondering why it isn't as it works for all the other vr headsets out there, and I was under the impression it didn't plug into the gpu to send the image over. I use a Gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb, Aorus Gaming 7 Wifi x470 motherboard, 2x8gb 3200mhz corsair vengeance pro ram, Ryzen 5 2600x OCed to 4ghz cpu, and a evga 650watt psu.
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PITTCANNA
Visionary
So now that its out of beta, and new gpus are coming out.  They will not support such a low entry gpu.  You can try at risk but theres a good chance you will get an error.

PocketDeuces
Honored Guest
My Q1 worked great with my 1080 6GB PC pre-V20. Ever since V20, it's unusable. I had high hopes that V23 would fix things, but no improvement.

I keep flipping back and forth getting Virtual Desktop and trying that instead, but I think I'll just use the Quest stand alone until I upgrade to a PCVR system in the future.

LantGames
Honored Guest
john.zigmont its a Gigabyte GTX 1060 3gb and the games I have tested work well but I am about to test them more right now. PITTCANNA I have already launched a few games and they do work, it may not be officially supported but that doesn't mean it won't work. PocketDueces if you have a good 5Ghz wifi connection with decent speeds then you should have no trouble using Virtual Desktop.

john.zigmont
Heroic Explorer

LantGames said:

john.zigmont its a Gigabyte GTX 1060 3gb and the games I have tested work well but I am about to test them more right now. PITTCANNA I have already launched a few games and they do work, it may not be officially supported but that doesn't mean it won't work. PocketDueces if you have a good 5Ghz wifi connection with decent speeds then you should have no trouble using Virtual Desktop.


Lauching a VR game and playing a VR game are different you ask if it would work well IMO the hardware isn't powerful enough for VR  games and forget any AAA VR game or Sims you wouldn't be able to play or enjoy you asked I answered.  

LantGames
Honored Guest
I've tested some games like beat saber and it seems to work pretty well, although there is considerable lag when I use 90hz.

john.zigmont
Heroic Explorer

LantGames said:

I've tested some games like beat saber and it seems to work pretty well, although there is considerable lag when I use 90hz.


Beat Saber is a very basic game as far as graphics go and @ 90hz there is considerable lag which makes it unplayable So what I said still stands the GTX 1060 3GB is not for current VR headsets your very limited to what you can play as I stated before launching a VR game and playing a VR game are two different things. The bottom line is GTX 1060  3GB is not compatible with any current  PCVR headsets. (Rift S, Quest 1 or 2, HP Reverb, Value Index and Vive Cosmos)

LantGames
Honored Guest
Thanks again for explaining everything to me and I was wondering something, are there any options I can change to improve performance like bitrate?