It just doesn't have the horsepower needed and Oculus doesn't officially support laptops at the moment, so even if it had the muscle, it might still have issues.
I just googled requirements specs NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater - I have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater - I have 5th Generation Intel Core i7 5700HQ (2.70 GHz) 8GB+ RAM - I have 16 GB Memory RAM 1 TB HDD Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output - I have one 2x USB 3.0 ports - I have three Windows 7 SP1 or newer - i have Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
"in6seconds" wrote: who said that oculus doesn't support laptops? don't go making up things please
Not making anything up. Cyberreality has said this many times. Most laptops are incompatible with the Rift, so at present, they don't officially support them. That will likely change in time, but that's the official Oculus word right now.
You have a great gaming laptop, but it's going to be short of what ideal VR needs. There's a big difference between desktop and laptop GPUs for example. They're not equivalent.
"in6seconds" wrote: who said that oculus doesn't support laptops? don't go making up things please
Not making anything up. Cyberreality has said this many times. Most laptops are incompatible with the Rift, so at present, they don't officially support them. That will likely change in time, but that's the official Oculus word right now.
You have a great gaming laptop, but it's going to be short of what ideal VR needs. There's a big difference between desktop and laptop GPUs for example. They're not equivalent.
aww, I hope I didn't buy that laptop for no reason, well they said most laptops so since my laptop is really high up there, there might be a chance? 😄
"in6seconds" wrote: who said that oculus doesn't support laptops? don't go making up things please
Not making anything up. Cyberreality has said this many times. Most laptops are incompatible with the Rift, so at present, they don't officially support them. That will likely change in time, but that's the official Oculus word right now.
You have a great gaming laptop, but it's going to be short of what ideal VR needs. There's a big difference between desktop and laptop GPUs for example. They're not equivalent.
aww, I hope I didn't buy that laptop for no reason, well they said most laptops so since my laptop is really high up there, there might be a chance? 😄
It's hard to say. Some people have had luck with laptops and maybe someone here can tell you if yours is one that can work with a Rift or not, but even if it is compatible, it's going to struggle performance wise. It's a beast laptop, but VR is stupid demanding.
Laptops tend to have rather different video output architecture from the desktops, because of "switchable graphics" (which are nifty for power saving, but not much else). Rift needs a level of control over video output that is not possible with switchable graphics. It's not directly processing power related - if your laptop was just somewhat underpowered, then the Rift would probably work, although you'd get a bad experience. As it is, it might not work at all.
