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.

[dekdo]

hoping the consumer version of the oculus wont require more than dual 970's lol

[Veraxus]

Motherboard: ASRock Z87E-ITX (LGA1150)
CPU: Core i5-4670K
GPU: GeForce GTX 780 (3GB) - driver version 350.12
RAM: 8Gb
SSD: Samsung 840EVO

I've repeatedly reinstalled Windows, using the DK2 on a nice clean install. I briefly had excellent performance on Windows 10 (build 10049)... on updating Windows to 10079 performance bombed again with intolerable judder.

On Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 I also get horrible judder in games that simply cannot be fixed at any quality setting, regardless of framerate (Demo Scene, Tuscany, and Kokiri work fine, however).

I've reinstalled multiple versions of Windows multiple times in the last week, and almost nothing fixes the judder problem. Furthermore, all of Valve's VR stuff fails to work properly at all, no matter what combination of Windows + GPU drivers + OR runtime I have tested. Steam VR and Valve games launch in a single non-VR window, as if VR could not be initialized.

So yeah... I'd say this is nowhere remotely near ready for prime time. Unless we get some NVIDIA Control Panel-style options for the OR (e.g. manually set Rift refresh rate and enable/disable forced low persistence) so that we have the ability to manually troubleshoot our own VR quirks and work out solid, reliable solutions, I don't think Oculus should release anything for consumers.

[NightShadow]

I5 4670 3.4 GHZ
Sapphire R9 280X Dual-X OC 3 GB
GSKILL KIT 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ
MSI B85-G43-GAMING

I would like to know what performance should i expect with my computer. Thanks.

[bartos]

asus maximus V
i7 3770K 3.5ghz
32GB dominator 1866mhz

This gonna work OK if I throw in a 970? Or do I need to go bigger on GPU? Rigs due for an overhaul in a few months but at that time I'd be leaning towards waiting out for the consumer release... Don't mind buying a decent card and the DK2 now, if it'll work.. Suggestions?

[ThreeDeeVision]

"bartos" wrote:
asus maximus V
i7 3770K 3.5ghz
32GB dominator 1866mhz

This gonna work OK if I throw in a 970? Or do I need to go bigger on GPU? Rigs due for an overhaul in a few months but at that time I'd be leaning towards waiting out for the consumer release... Don't mind buying a decent card and the DK2 now, if it'll work.. Suggestions?

That is still looking pretty good, might as well just go with the best Vid card you can afford, because these components should keep up with the new cards pretty well.

You can still do your overhaul when the time comes, and put your new Vid card in it.

[bartos]

"ThreeDeeVision" wrote:

"bartos" wrote:
asus maximus V
i7 3770K 3.5ghz
32GB dominator 1866mhz

This gonna work OK if I throw in a 970? Or do I need to go bigger on GPU? Rigs due for an overhaul in a few months but at that time I'd be leaning towards waiting out for the consumer release... Don't mind buying a decent card and the DK2 now, if it'll work.. Suggestions?

That is still looking pretty good, might as well just go with the best Vid card you can afford, because these components should keep up with the new cards pretty well.

You can still do your overhaul when the time comes, and put your new Vid card in it.

Yeah makes sense, thanks!

[ThreeDeeVision]

"bartos" wrote:

"ThreeDeeVision" wrote:

"bartos" wrote:
asus maximus V
i7 3770K 3.5ghz
32GB dominator 1866mhz

This gonna work OK if I throw in a 970? Or do I need to go bigger on GPU? Rigs due for an overhaul in a few months but at that time I'd be leaning towards waiting out for the consumer release... Don't mind buying a decent card and the DK2 now, if it'll work.. Suggestions?

That is still looking pretty good, might as well just go with the best Vid card you can afford, because these components should keep up with the new cards pretty well.

You can still do your overhaul when the time comes, and put your new Vid card in it.

Yeah makes sense, thanks!

No prob! I have another PC that has the i7 3770K, 16GB of PC1600 DDR3, and the original Titan Superclocked edition 6GB video card and it handles DK2 demos like a champ. That 3770K overclocks very easily if you want to get a little more oomph out of it. I have had mine at a very stable 4.0 GHz with only a Zalman air cooler on it ever since I purchased it from newegg about 2 years ago.

[bartos]

"ThreeDeeVision" wrote:

No prob! I have another PC that has the i7 3770K, 16GB of PC1600 DDR3, and the original Titan Superclocked edition 6GB video card and it handles DK2 demos like a champ. That 3770K overclocks very easily if you want to get a little more oomph out of it. I have had mine at a very stable 4.0 GHz with only a Zalman air cooler on it ever since I purchased it from newegg about 2 years ago.

The Titan X you talked me into is now installed :? , oculus still on order so just some triple monitor gaming for the time being. I've been running the 3770K with a huge passive heatsink ever since my PC usage turned primarily to chrome and excel. Coretemp showed 92c after some time with project cars though so going to need to swap that solution out, and hey if I'm doing cooling may as well OC too right? Great seeing this rig come to life again, going to be crazy with oculus!

[ThreeDeeVision]

"bartos" wrote:

The Titan X you talked me into is now installed :? , oculus still on order so just some triple monitor gaming for the time being. I've been running the 3770K with a huge passive heatsink ever since my PC usage turned primarily to chrome and excel. Coretemp showed 92c after some time with project cars though so going to need to swap that solution out, and hey if I'm doing cooling may as well OC too right? Great seeing this rig come to life again, going to be crazy with oculus!

Nice! I didn't mean to talk you into that beast, but you will enjoy it nonetheless! You will definitely need to update your cooling solution, especially if you are overclocking. Pretty awesome that you can do a triple screen setup off of one single GPU card 🙂

The games and demos working with the DK2 should look awesome on that setup!

[falco]

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I felt it was best for the rift and came up with this rig that I built:

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card (couldn´t find the superclocked one in Mexico)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

it´s a rocket!!