Nique's happy fun time thread ~ Super general discussion

[Abriael]

Odd, it was also stated in the FAQ on the main site that, and I quote- "Any standard gaming computer should be sufficient to use the Oculus Rift."

Any source to say otherwise? This is the first i've heard of it being extremely taxing on systems

Also, according to the FAQ that they are hoping to have major console support. ._. (and mobile devices to boot)

Now its a possibility that they are stretching the truth, but seeing how the dev kit is already out now, I would have expected to hear more on this if it were the case. Interesting to think about though. I'd like to hear more about your experience.

That's what the devs themselves told me during the presentation (the fact that the rift requires 60 fps with vertical sync to be fully enjoyable. Slowdowns and screen tearing are massively immersion-breaking for VR and head tracking), and their demos run on GTX 680 cards as far as I know.

You have to keep in mind that the video card needs to render the screen twice (well, not exactly twice, but you can pretty much approximate the load to that). The rift doesn't help in any way with that, so there's the inescapable need for the hardware of your PC to do that on its own.

Sure. You can run pretty much any game at 60 fps with vertical sync on an average computer if you ramp the detail down a lot. But then the "virtual reality" kind of goes down the drain. "sufficient to use" is a very telling wording.

I was talking about using it at the best of it's potential, as I honestly doubt many are willing to trade off their game looking good for the sake of using the rift.

It's not that they're "stretching the truth". The devs themselves have been very open about it requiring a powerful PC to run at conventions and events to basically everyone I talked to (me included), but there's a very big difference between the device being usable and it being enjoyable.

Honestly I would say that unless you have a PC capable to push it, or it's simply not worth the cost.