Advice needed, looking to jump in VR!

[Zadrog]

o7 cmdrs,

Its been a dream of mine to play Elite;Dangerous in VR, and now i have a better pc, and i have my eyes on the HP reverb G2 virtual reality headset.
My system specs are:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 6-core, 12 threads
GPU: Radeon RX 6600
a nice SSD, and
32 gigs of 3200 MHz memory
What do you think, is it a good entry level, will i be able to run Elite in a smooth and enjoyable form (im fine with Legacy if Odyssey doesnt work smoothly, im aware that spacelegs dont support VR). If not, what are your suggestions, what upgrades my pc needs, or what other headsets you can recommend in similar price range (600 Euros)

Thank you in advance! o7

 

[DeckerSolo]

You'll get lots of opinions with your questions, including mine, so here goes.
I use an HP Reverb G2 and can recommend it, picture is high resolution and has very good colour/contrast quality, its an inside out tracking headset so no external base stations required, has over ear headphones and doesn't use compression tech for the picture ie it uses the DP port from GPU not USB like some others.
Like any VR headset its very demanding on the GPU and to a lesser extent the CPU. You'll probably have to sacrifice picture resolution and quality to get a playable game that doesn't make you nauseous.
To improve performance spend as much as you can on the GPU. I started with a Radeon RX 6900 XT and could run at quite high resolutions.

 

[Globusdiablo]

o7 cmdrs,

Its been a dream of mine to play Eliteangerous in VR, and now i have a better pc, and i have my eyes on the HP reverb G2 virtual reality headset.
My system specs are:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 6-core, 12 threads
GPU: Radeon RX 6600
a nice SSD, and
32 gigs of 3200 MHz memory
What do you think, is it a good entry level, will i be able to run Elite in a smooth and enjoyable form (im fine with Legacy if Odyssey doesnt work smoothly, im aware that spacelegs dont support VR). If not, what are your suggestions, what upgrades my pc needs, or what other headsets you can recommend in similar price range (600 Euros)

Thank you in advance! o7

You should do ok on low to medium settings (depending on what kind of frames per second you're looking for), which looks awesome on the Reverb. But stick to Legacy. For VR you need to throw all you can at the video card.

 

[Crank Larson]

VR in Odyssey still has a lot of issues, but at least it is now bearable for short periods. I have the HP G2 and it's a great headset. You'll need to use upscaling if you want performance (I have a 3090 and can't run anywhere near full HP G2 resolution for EDO or Legacy, I use OpenXR to upscale). The VR experience in legacy is much smoother.

 

[VR andysonofbob]

Legacy all the way for your system dude. (Unless the graphics engine for Oddy gets fixed any time soon, Oddy is just too glitchy for VR and it performs like a dog.)

As long as you set your expectations realistically, Legacy will blow you away. Be prepared for viewing the world through a snorkling mask (low FoV) and pretend your eyesight has aged a decade or two (lower res compared to the screen).

I remember just looking up and staring at the handles in my DBX when I first got VR.

Enjoy!

 

[Darth Ender]

the most "fun" thing about odyssey vr performance is that it's very inconsistent. The shaders and probably other rendering code will be fine doing something one minute and then you'll do something different and now repeating a scene you previously were ok doing performance-wise now sucks. and there is almost zero hope of vr performance ever getting fixed unless it's incidental to a fix made in the overall game. Since they made it pretty clear they aren't interested in investing in the VR experience anymore.

the best way to deal with odyssey vr performance is with overwhelming hardware and/or time (waiting until hardware that can brute force thru odyssey is common-place)