Hm, my Vive worked out of the box. Smooth installation process and no problems at all so far. SteamVR running stable, hardware working as intended. Apart from the bad graphic quality in ED I'm highly satisfied.
GTX 1080 + Vive = disappointment
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Hm, my Vive worked out of the box. Smooth installation process and no problems at all so far. SteamVR running stable, hardware working as intended. Apart from the bad graphic quality in ED I'm highly satisfied.
I'm running a GTX980Ti and Vive, and its working a treat! Have you tried turning your Supersampeling down to 1x? That works for me. Also as the 1080 is a new card with all new gubbins etc. the drivers will take a while to iron out all the bugs.
I dont think you have wasted your money OP, just wait a few weeks and this will sort itself out.
Settings>graphics>quality>supersampeling - 1 x.
Good Luck mate,
Brian
I dont think you have wasted your money OP, just wait a few weeks and this will sort itself out.
Settings>graphics>quality>supersampeling - 1 x.
Good Luck mate,
Brian
I have been playing a lot with ED Vr settings on my Vive + gtx 1080 (OC) + i7. The best visuals is when you turn off AA and set SS for 2.0 , shadow off or low , rest on medium , no bulr and no ambient + green HUD. All texts is sharp and AA issues are gone.
But frame rate is 90 fps only in space , rings and also near planets. At starports or engineers bases frames drops around 45 fps. Thouse settings are playable for me but it should not be done this way..
But frame rate is 90 fps only in space , rings and also near planets. At starports or engineers bases frames drops around 45 fps. Thouse settings are playable for me but it should not be done this way..
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Jon, thanks for some great insight! Trying it out on my 4k TV was a great idea. Played for like an hour at 4k resolution ultra settings 1.5x supersampling (1.5x on 4k!!) GPU was taxed, but still produced 50+ FPS. No crashes, fan never went above 60%.
I guess the next thing I'll try is some serious runtime on another vive game. If that doesn't cause problems I'll try deleting the XML you suggested.
I already tried a bit of underclocking, but I don't think I underclocked the memory. I'll try that too.
I agree. The only way a 970 is running at 90fps with no dropped frames is if you're dropping enough frames in your brain that you can't notice the frame drops. What drugs are you taking? I'd like to try them
Lmao. Not at all. It is not possible to get that performance from a 970, it's as simple as that. No one is being childish, people as merely pointing out that it's a bold face lie.
You say it isn't? Fine we would all love to be proven wrong and I'm sure someone with that configuration and alleged 90fps would be more than happy to provide a video so that this conversation can be put to bed. If it's true it'll save me a shed load of money.!!
After all kids love videos..... Joking.
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What's a "buggy computer"?
You're not going to get "amazing" performance from a 970, you're just not. Well, it depends on what you call amazing, but what I call "amazing" would be performance in line with a quad sli 1080 setup, if such a thing is doable right now.
Anyway. On topic re; driver crashes in ED. This used to be quite a common issue and one that I suffered from a lot on my EVGA GTX 980. Initially I solved the issue by using EVGA Precision to enable k-boost, which forced the card to run at full pelt all the time.
The issue itself was caused by the transitions in demand on the GPU when jumping from system to system and in and out of frameshift. The GPU demand would rise and fall and consequently the GPU would enable and disable the boost clock as required, but as the clock speed was changing, the voltage was lagging behind. This caused the GPU to stop responding and the driver to crash. K-boost alleviated the issue by forcing a constant clock speed and therefore constant voltage.
After some more issues I had in Witcher 3, I did some more investigation and it turns out that there was an updated BIOS available for my card which fixed an issue with the displayport, but also mentioned correcting voltage curves in certain power states. I emailed EVGA and flashed the latest BIOS. I haven't had a single driver crash in any game since, even in ED and I'm not using k-boost any longer.
If your card came with software that allows you to force a constant clock speed and voltage, this might be worth trying. It might also be worth asking the manufacturer if they have an updated BIOS for it.
Quad SLI is possible. However, put a quad-SLI in a crap system and you'll get crap performance. CPU, Mobo and RAM are just as important as the video card in VR.
If your PC looks something like this, then it's time to upgrade.
You clearly dont understand the rendering workload of 2x supersampling in a consumer HMD at 90hz
The 1080 can *just* about handle 1.5x supersampling with VR Low and it packs the equivalent horsepower of 2 x 980s.
I've owned a 970 and it's capable of delivering a solid VR experience but it can't handle supersampling and deliver a consistent 90 fps experience. Not by a long shot.
wish id read this sooner
Gonna swap my 1080 for a 970 for when my CV1 arrives ( SOON i HOPE ) > wanna swap @?so let me get this straight, even with a 1080 and CV1 people are still struggling to run SS1.5 and all detail on at 90FPS?
damn...
over a year ago i was just able to run it SS1.5 on DK2 75fps on all low settings with 2 x 880m - just. lots of places it dipped.
I was hoping all the latest patches and occy runtime had smoothed things over. geez
damn...
over a year ago i was just able to run it SS1.5 on DK2 75fps on all low settings with 2 x 880m - just. lots of places it dipped.
I was hoping all the latest patches and occy runtime had smoothed things over. geez
Asynchronous time warp is awesome, the OVR runtime post 1.3 is top notch.
Orientation latency is no longer an issue but in intensive render scenes you still get animation latency even with a 1080.
In my opinion 2x SS will only become possible when Frontier implements the Pascal VR APIs - single pass stereo specifically. Brute horsepower and black magic are enabling high fidelity VR at the moment.
I know I'm going against the grain here but I used 2x 780 ti sc's for uhd elite dangerous but had to use a single card for the vive. I was expecting it to be a juddering mess (based on some reviews) but honestly, i loved it. One thing to mention is the ram was nearly always maxed out for vr and uhd.
The pc died 2 weeks ago due to the SSD. I done some investigation but impulsively decided to get a new rig. I'm hoping it'll be even better in vr with a 1080, although some comments make me slightly worried? There again, i know a 780 ti sc was great - so hopefully, things will be better. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Old rig:
Mobo: Asus crosshair v formula
Ram: 32gb DDR3 1866mhz
GPU: EVGA 780 ti sc sli (x2)
CPU: AMD 8 core FX9590 4.7ghz
SSD: Corsair force series 3 256gb(dead now)
New rig: (sorry if any of this is slightly wrong!)
Mobo: msi X99A Raider
Ram: 32gb DDR4 3000mhz
GPU: MSI 1080 8gb Seahawk (water-cooled version)
CPU: Intel Broadwell-E I7 6850k 6 core 4.3ghz
SSD: Samsung 500gb m2 (can't remember model name)
Do you think the new rig is a big step up please? It's set me back a lot of cash.
Many thanks,
Evolution
The pc died 2 weeks ago due to the SSD. I done some investigation but impulsively decided to get a new rig. I'm hoping it'll be even better in vr with a 1080, although some comments make me slightly worried? There again, i know a 780 ti sc was great - so hopefully, things will be better. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Old rig:
Mobo: Asus crosshair v formula
Ram: 32gb DDR3 1866mhz
GPU: EVGA 780 ti sc sli (x2)
CPU: AMD 8 core FX9590 4.7ghz
SSD: Corsair force series 3 256gb(dead now)
New rig: (sorry if any of this is slightly wrong!)
Mobo: msi X99A Raider
Ram: 32gb DDR4 3000mhz
GPU: MSI 1080 8gb Seahawk (water-cooled version)
CPU: Intel Broadwell-E I7 6850k 6 core 4.3ghz
SSD: Samsung 500gb m2 (can't remember model name)
Do you think the new rig is a big step up please? It's set me back a lot of cash
.Many thanks,
Evolution
Contrary to what was believed pre-release: the rift works in about the same space as the Vive does. Once the controllers ship with their second sensor, the space it works in will actually be slightly larger than the Vive's.
At present: Rift lacks a chaperone feature; but that could certainly be added in software.
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I guess I need to run FPS benchmarks. I'm running SS2 in VR HIGH and not *noticing* any issues with tracking or frame rate. (CV1, 1080 GTX)
Overclocking didn't help... i can get elite to run well with the 1080 and about 1.6 thru editing the steam vr render file. The in game SS settings dont do anything but lower the framerate drastically with no real visual improvement.
Something in the games coding or whatever is preventing the vive from running smoothly. I can get 90fps thru various adjustments, but it continues to drop frames which are noticeable and annoying.
For now I'll just stick to playing elite in 4k with all settings maxed and never dropping below 58 or 57ish fps
Running:
1080 founders ghetto water cooled
Stable over clock of 2101 for hours on end
I7 6700k
32gb ram
Samsung 850 pro ssd
You might be interested in my post talking about how to get the Vive and the Rift crystal clear.
Thats what I was trying to say... but i kinda butchered it in my response. But yeah thats the post I've read before and did exactly what it said. But no matter what settings it still seems to miss every other frame.
Maybe i need to reinstall all my vive associated software and redo the room setup...?
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