I have tried time and time again to run the Oculus Compatibility Tool but it doesn't work on my computer. I googled it and I'm supposed to get a popup as it runs some tests, but I never see anything. I heard that you can check your compatibility using 3DMark so I installed Firestrike 1.1 and gave it a run. They say to be VR ready you'll want to bead a score of 9271, I got a score of 9354 using my two GTX 760's in SLI. Does that count? Would my PC be able to hand VR like this? Thanks.
gpuboss scores says sorry but no, your not vr ready, and I don't think your card has asw either which is what allows the 1050 ti to even work for rifting.
ASW has nothing to do with the GPU, that's the Rift drivers. But yeah, the GPU falls short and SLI/Crossfire doesn't work. Can't comment on the rest of the system since you didn't mention what it has, but it might be ok other than the GPU's.
"The hardware requirements for ASW are modest. This functionality has been enabled on all current-generation AMD GPUs (RX 400 series) and previous- or current-generation Nvidia GPUs (GTX 900 or 1000 series)."
That's really annoying. According to the GPU Boss link and hwcompare.com, the 960 and 760 aren't too different from each other performance wise. The ASW issue makes sense why the 760 is incompatible.
"The hardware requirements for ASW are modest. This functionality has been enabled on all current-generation AMD GPUs (RX 400 series) and previous- or current-generation Nvidia GPUs (GTX 900 or 1000 series)."
The GTX 900 series is the lowest videocard that supports asynchronous-spacewarp (asw) in the rift. I didn't make that up.
Interesting, I wasn't aware they did that. I wonder if it's simply that they didn't test the older GPU's but it still might work or if it really won't work at all.
