AMD GPUs for VR in Elite ?
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I don't have experience with the card in question, but it does seem to deliver a significant boost, and the extra vram will definitely come in handy. Depending on what kind of frames per second you're willing to accept. My 3090 uses approx. 10gb vram with my settings (mostly medium). If I bump settings higher, performance tanks.
Stick to Legacy for VR.
I seem to recall seeing AMD users complaining about aliased orbit lines, and having to remain with certain driver versions, to avoid colours turning psychadelic.
No idea whether these things are still problematic, whether they were ever more than just noteworthy, nor which models were affected.
EDIT: As for VR specifically: There are a few very high resolution headsets, which require DSC (digital stream compression), in order to squeeze two 4k images through a single display port cable, and these have been having difficulties with AMD cards, apparently...
No idea whether these things are still problematic, whether they were ever more than just noteworthy, nor which models were affected.
EDIT: As for VR specifically: There are a few very high resolution headsets, which require DSC (digital stream compression), in order to squeeze two 4k images through a single display port cable, and these have been having difficulties with AMD cards, apparently...
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There are still issues with VR on the RX 6000 and RX 7000 series cards.
There do seem to be some viable workarounds (start at that post), but I barely use VR these days and haven't tested it with my AMD GPUs in Elite.
In general, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend AMD GPUs over their NVIDIA equivalents in most price segments, but Elite: Dangerous 4.0.x is an exception. The game currently prefers, and has fewer hassels with, contemporary NVIDIA parts.
There do seem to be some viable workarounds (start at that post), but I barely use VR these days and haven't tested it with my AMD GPUs in Elite.
In general, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend AMD GPUs over their NVIDIA equivalents in most price segments, but Elite: Dangerous 4.0.x is an exception. The game currently prefers, and has fewer hassels with, contemporary NVIDIA parts.
You don't have to always make every game render resolutions that saturate the full resolution of an HMD, though; The render resolution you get from what is 150% supersampling for a lower resolution headset, will be better put to use with one for which the same resolution constitutes 75%. :7
Never mind that headsets with that sort of resolution tend to still be forbiddingly expensive... although, who knows for how long...
Then there is the matter of foveated rendering hopefully becoming commonplace, some day -- could even make VR raytracing viable sooner than one might expect, if industry influentials see to it that RT is done in a forward-thinking and flexible way. :7
Great, thanks for the comments and real life comparison vid
For VR it still is, unless you like seeing planets turn themselves inside out.
That sounds fairly scary. x|