The ULTIMATE "Is My PC Good Enough?" (for DK2) Thread

[cybereality]

OK, by popular demand I am making one single "is my PC good enough thread" that will be stickied.

If anyone creates a new thread about this, it will be locked immediately.

Please, this thread should be for DK2 only. Nobody knows what CV1 will need, and if you are only preparing for the next version of the Rift, then you should wait and make an informed purchase at that time.

I will start. I am using a:

- Intel i7-3820 @ 3.6GHz
- Nvidia GTX 680 previously (now GTX 970)
- 16GB DDR3
- Windows 7 64-bit

Mostly all the demos I have tested will work in both Direct and Extended Mode. I haven't done extensive benchmarking, but it's mostly a smooth experience. Some games do have judder, but I'm not sure it's only performance related.

One thing to note: laptops have really poor support for the Rift. Especially with switchable graphics (Optimus) there are hardware limitations that cannot be fixed with a software patch, and will probably never work correctly. If you are buying a new computer today I am STRONGLY RECOMMENDING that you DO NOT purchase a laptop for VR development. You will be sorry if you go down this road and most likely performance will be slow and the games will crash. In almost all cases, a good desktop machine will be significantly better than a laptop you can purchase at the same price.

Please join in with a list of your system specs and if you have a smooth experience with DK2.

[afonseca]

Here's what I'm using:

Xidax X-4 Gaming PC
Motherboard: MSI Z97I AC Mini ITX Motherboard - HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0
Processor: Intel® Quad Core™ i5-4690 Processor - 6M Cache, 3.50GHz, No Hyper Threading
Memory: 16GB - Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 - (2x8GB)
Power Supply: Silverstone 600W Power Supply
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970
Sound Cards: Onboard Audio
HDD/SSD: 256GB SSD - 540MB/s Read, 530MB/s Write
OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit

I've been using the setup with DK2 with iRacing (direct mode) primarily and get good performance but do have to turn down graphics settings with some of the newer tracks or the framerate falls below 75fps when racing online. I'm still playing around with settings to see what the bottleneck might be.

[VizionVR]

Thank you Cyber!

I USED TO HAVE a GTX 560ti, but it wouldn't keep up with the bigger, better apps and games.
Upgraded to a GTX 970 and I can now run anything at or near optimal settings
i7 Ivy Bridge 3770, 3.5 GHz
8 GB DDR3
Z97 mother board
750w PSU
Cost: $1600

[scottycam]

My setup;

Motherboard: Asus sabertooth z77
Processor: Intel i7-3770k 3.5GHz
Memory: 16GB - Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 SLI (although only use a single card when running anything for VR)
HDD/SSD: OCZ vertex 4 256GB SSD
Power Supply: CoolerMaster V1000 80 Plus Gold 1000W
OS: Windows 7 64-bit

I can run pretty much every demo on "Oculus Share" on a steady 75FPS in direct mode (with a handful needing extended mode). A few demos did have judder, most due to lower then 60fps and a few had 75fps but still bad judder.

LFS ran perfect, steady on 75FPS the whole time, add the logitech G27 and LFS is a great experience, however I have never been big on racing games.

Alien Isolation runs great also, can't play on max settings but worked well on around medium-ish for me and got close to 75FPS constantly. The best full game for VR that I have played but still needs many improvements for an actual VR game.

Using Vorpx; (Gameplay of most games not made for VR in VR is quite annoying)
Bioshock Infinite - On low settings I was able to get a playable FPS, it mostly stayed around 75FPS with judder every now and again.

Vireio v2.1.4:
Skyrim - Looks and feels really good, especially if you are a big fan and always wanted to see in the game (which I am). However I was not able to get the FPS up to a playable level. Evey setting on lowest I was able to get a steady 75FPS inside buildings however with the settings this low the draw distance was massively immersion breaking, people and objects would disappear when they are about 3 meters away from me. Outside buildings my FPS would vary from about 40 to 60, which on the DK2 makes it feel like your vision is lagging and will make you sick with a small amount of playtime. Some people have reported getting a steady 75FPS with graphics cards equal to or lower then mine but I was not able too.

All in all I think my system was very adequate for experiencing the DK2 but expect to need a large upgrade to be able to play everything for the CV1 of the Rift. Which I will put off buying/speculating on the system I will need until about a month before the actual release date.

[Anonymous]

For common good I will post my laptop specifications:

Acer Aspire V3-571G
Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
8GB DDR3 Memory
Nvidia GeForce 640M 2GB with Optimus

This is a generally good performance laptop for gaming but Optimus is pure evil. I have to run everything in Extended because chromatic correction is 2x worse in Direct. I've learned this is because the texture format used (it swaps two of the colors) might not be supported on the Intel GPU, but when running in Extended mode Windows knows how to fix this in software but in Direct mode Windows cannot do this fix.

Benchmarking:
In Titans of Space I get about 50-60 fps and i suspect I just have gotten used to this and so it feels smooth for me. This is basically my overall feeling for most games. I've played Alien Isolation and I don't have much problems there either. Of course I notice that it's not totally smooth in some areas, but I don't get motion sickness - most likely because I've done this since DK1.

[Welby]

OS: Windows 8.1
CPU: I5 2300 2.80Ghz
GPU: Nvdia GTX 980
Ram: 12Gb DDR3

I can actually play almost every demo without judder.

I've played games like Titan of Space and other Unity 4 and 5 without issues at all.. and also some UE4 demos without problems.

However,i've encountered heavy motion blur and judder in some UE4 demos.. and i guess it's Fps related (yes.. even with a gtx 980 an Ue4 demos with oculus can be lagghy).

However i suspect that those demo wasn't so much optimized.. or maybe it's due to my CPU bottleneck... however the 95% of games just works fine both Extended and Direct mode

[kepner]

Just posting mine from my thread before.

Current Setup:
OS: Windows 8.1
MOBO: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
CPU: Intel i5-3570k @ 4.0ghz
RAM: GSkill Sniper 8gb DDR3 @ 1600mhz
GFX: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 OC Version
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 550W 80Plus

Current Games\Demos I tried:
Elite Dangerous - Game is playable only when I lowered all possible settings. If not then I get alot of "judders". But even at some places I still get "judders" like the 1st training mission with a lot of asteroids, and also inside space stations.
Assetto Corsa - Its same here, game is playable only when I lowered all possible settings. I get "judders" when I use Post Processing and other special fx.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Getting a noticeable amount of "judder" even at lowest settings. But still playable.
Live for Speed - Smoothies game I played without changing/lowering any settings. FPS stayed @ 75 throughout.
Senza Peso - I'm getting "Judder" even thought Im using "1920x1080 x Faster" config.

Planning on getting the GTX980 Ti I heard it will be release soon.

[Anonymous]

My spec is in my Sig.

I have had no problems running anything.... well I say that I have suffered from the usual software glitches but they are not caused by machine spec.

I will be upgrading shortly to a 1tb ssd.

The only games I get Judder due to performance issues is Elite Dangerous inside the stations.... everything else is pretty much rock solid at a v-sync'd 75fps.

[zork2001]

Oh oh a sticky thread where every nerd can write their PC specs. Break out the location and bubble wrap.

Seriously no one cares what you have and no one will ever care what you have. People want to know what they need to buy in order for VR to work.

[VizionVR]

"zork2001" wrote:
Seriously no one cares what you have and no one will ever care what you have. People want to know what they need to buy in order for VR to work.

And reading or posting to this thread wont help anyone figure that out, right?