Hello, I want to put together a PC hooked up to an oculus where you turn it on, once it boots up the experience starts right away and when it's done (after 8 minutes) the computer shuts off. it's for someone who doesn't know anything about computers, has a lot of money, and they just want to have this toy. The experience i have is a fly through of a level made in ue4. The user just looks around and enjoys the ride. It's heavy on the graphics, goes indoor and out, etc. Right now It's running well on a gtx 780...i was thinking about getting a gtx980 for this. What else should I get? 4ghz 8-core processor? Or would something smaller be okay? How much RAM you think? I don't want to overkill it but I know the GPU is important to get that steady frame rate.
Also - where should I start googling in terms of programming a PC to automatically start a game on startup and shut down 8 minutes later. Can I do all that in Python? Would Ubuntu or something be okay for this or do ue4 games not look as nice? Or would windows just be easier in terms of oculus/nvidia drivers etc? Is there a script that can shut a computer down safely while a game is running?
Anyway...any ideas to get me started would be very helpful! Thanks!
thanks for the reply. the experience is just a float around world where you look around. heavy on the textures. it's inside and outside. a lot of animated characters...a landscape....runs okay with my gtx780 but the 980 seems like it's around the same price.
i was thinking of using win8.1 for the OS but was wondering if something like ubuntu would be a just as easy setup. it's been awhile since i used it but i remember the drivers for nvidia being a huge pain.