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From someone who's only tried VR at a friend's: How important is CPU in a VR system. Is VR demanding on CPU?

With CP 2077 I'm considering to save up for a new system come 2020.

I could kill two birds with one stone, if you catch my drift.
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
What on earth do you mean harmless? Do you not know of the wars that ravaged CPU-kind where the Cryptonation attacked and killed their brethren the GPU? Its quite a harmful question I think youll find

:p

What are you currently running?
 

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Flash_Baggins said:
What on earth do you mean harmless? Do you not know of the wars that ravaged CPU-kind where the Cryptonation attacked and killed their brethren the GPU? Its quite a harmful question I think youll find

:p

What are you currently running?
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i5 4690, (NOT THE K-UNLOCKED VERSION), and a GTX 960 4GB. Obviously a GPU upgrade is mandatory. I'm not so clear on the CPU.
 

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Benji85 said:
GpU is important but with your setup you will get more benefit from you but I would look at getting a faster CPU to
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Yeah, I was thinking that. Understand I'm not looking to make any purchase until late 2020. That's one reason I think it's viable to look at a new CPU. :)

I'm lucky to have a very stable financial situation, so I can't see anything that would eat at my disposable income after rent, bills, etc.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
The i5 4690 is a 4-core/4-thread part, I would not really run anything time-critical on there aside something like Elite that can hog the CPU quite heavily at times. So yes, I'd upgrade that for VR.
 

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Shadowdancer said:
The i5 4690 is a 4-core/4-thread part, I would not really run anything time-critical on there aside something like Elite that can hog the CPU quite heavily at times. So yes, I'd upgrade that for VR.
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Thanks, that's no problem for me. Appreciate the honest opinion. :)
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Un1k0rn said:
i5 4690, (NOT THE K-UNLOCKED VERSION), and a GTX 960 4GB. Obviously a GPU upgrade is mandatory. I'm not so clear on the CPU.
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The I5 should be technically good enough for VR, but if you have the money then Id recommend upgrading the I7. its also an investment for the futureeeeeeee (where everything is chrome apparently)
However I dont have any VR experience with an I5

Theres a good overall guide to prices and stuff here: http://www.logicalincrements.com/
 

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Flash_Baggins said:
The I5 should be technically good enough for VR, but if you have the money then Id recommend upgrading the I7. its also an investment for the futureeeeeeee (where everything is chrome apparently)
However I dont have any VR experience with an I5

Theres a good overall guide to prices and stuff here: http://www.logicalincrements.com/
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I should have the cash. While my income is limited, I have enough disposable after the rent to be able to get nice things, eventually. And like I say, late 2020. Basically no new games until then, but I have mods for three TES games to explore still. I'm pretty content, all things considered. My life is actually okay. RIP
 

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Benji85 said:
I'd you aren't actually buying anything you untill 2020 then maybe ask the question nearer the time.... Technology moves along quickly
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True. I am professional Idiot™.

But therein lies my point, in some manner. I have one friend who says I shouldn't worry about the CPU...

I'm so confused!!! [knocked out]
 

[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
I am currently running an i5 4690k which runs the game pretty good.

I am upgrading to an i7 this weekend though, to get a bit more performance for my GPU, which does all the terrain work at the moment.

To give you a direction, i played the game in VR with low to medium settings on that processor, with a GTX970 and 16 Gigs of Ram. I am now playing the game on full maxed settings using a GTX1080ti, 32 Gigs and an M.2 SSD. Looking forward to give the system back some breath with the i7.
 

Benji85

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I find that terrain work is actually best given to the gfx card (slider all way to right) because when there is lots of terrain or Res site or planets you areore then likely going to be running at 45 asw FPS mode where your CPU is actually do far more work then the gfx load so you gain FPS ( or rather avoid stutter) by unloading the work to gfx card
 

Sierra_Hotel

Sierra_Hotel
Benji85 said:
I find that terrain work is actually best given to the gfx card (slider all way to right) because when there is lots of terrain or Res site or planets you areore then likely going to be running at 45 asw FPS mode where your CPU is actually do far more work then the gfx load so you gain FPS ( or rather avoid stutter) by unloading the work to gfx card
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Interesting. I'll have to test that out.
 

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
I am running a 2500k @ 4.3GHz on a 1070. It does drop now and again but I have always thought it totally playable. It runs.

Up until recently I could crank up HMD quality up to 1.25 too. Struggling now with this pesky stuttering I am getting.
 

Flapdrol1337

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Benji85 said:
I find that terrain work is actually best given to the gfx card (slider all way to right) because when there is lots of terrain or Res site or planets you areore then likely going to be running at 45 asw FPS mode where your CPU is actually do far more work then the gfx load so you gain FPS ( or rather avoid stutter) by unloading the work to gfx card
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gotta try this out then

I'm running a 4670K on 4 GHz, but also an old ish r9 290, so the gpu is already working hard.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
Flash_Baggins said:
The I5 should be technically good enough for VR
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Most of the time maybe, but Elite already tends to run quite a few "heavy" threads, and you'll want some extra cores to run time critical stuff on the side. It's not much of an issue as long as you're just trucking along, but situations with a good number of other ships or especially players around can quickly make the game monopolise the CPU. An older bottom-tier 4-core i5 without HT is not great for that load.

CPUs come along rather slowly and most of the advances are negligible, and 6-core/12-thread CPUs are downright cheap these days (the Ryzen 2600 is about as much as a fancy socket cover and intel's comparable offerings are similar). I don't expect that class of CPU to get out of fashion all that quickly so there's lots of time to check out new GPUs down the road :p

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also an old ish r9 290, so the gpu is already working hard.
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Yeah, you don't want that sucker until it's winter again. (Had an R9 280x and damn was that ever not great.)
 

Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Un1k0rn said:
From someone who's only tried VR at a friend's: How important is CPU in a VR system. Is VR demanding on CPU?

With CP 2077 I'm considering to save up for a new system come 2020.

I could kill two birds with one stone, if you catch my drift.
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My 6600k struggles. I made a thread here somewhere with an article explaining the need for HT for VR.

I would suggest 6700k as minimum for VR.
 
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