Elite Dangerous does not support SLI or Crossfire. It runs like crap when you try it.
I am thinking HP Reverb G2 is the best choice for me - would appreciate your thoughts on this
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It’s a shame, such a great theoretical idea but if it needs the games to implement it and if that implementation is deep in the code then I would guess not many will reverse engineer their games for the small few % of vr owners who have two expensive graphics cards.
I went SLI once, never again.
To upgrade you have to buy double.
You also get funny issues that you don't get with one card - I am convinced g-sync was to remedy the funny judders you get with SLI because I can't see the difference with one card.
VR doesn't really support it.
@rgiles1818b
You might want to do what I intend to do, play it at 50% resolution, which aparently still looks better that the Rift S, until I can also upgrade my 1070.
To upgrade you have to buy double.
You also get funny issues that you don't get with one card - I am convinced g-sync was to remedy the funny judders you get with SLI because I can't see the difference with one card.
VR doesn't really support it.
@rgiles1818b
You might want to do what I intend to do, play it at 50% resolution, which aparently still looks better that the Rift S, until I can also upgrade my 1070.
My budget is £600 for GPU, hopefully less.
Do you think we need to have >8GB of GRAM for the G2?
Any thoughts on this?
Do you think we need to have >8GB of GRAM for the G2?
Any thoughts on this?
I have my G2 pre-ordered, I've been really looking forward to playing in VR
If you've not played ED in VR before, you are in for a proper treat... and with the G2 no less!
it'd be great to hear your feedback.
You definitely want more than 8Gb of RAM. For my Reverb it consistently uses 10Gb out of 11Gb available on my old 1080Ti and I suspecting it would happily use much more
Thanks!
That is great info.
Regardless of team (red/green) and card, the card will need 10GB of RAM
Do we know yet how significant the impact of a limited headroom of VRAM will be? Even on faster cards?
EDIT
Is that a G2 you have? How does it run on your 1080Ti?
Jumping in here andysonofbob but actually I'd suggest the more VRAM you can afford the better. I use a G1 with the 1080ti and always see it nudge 11GB. I'm planning on a 6800XT/6900XT with 16GB if the reviews show the drivers are stable.
There are comments in this thread about the impact of more VRAM:
3090 is the new VR KING
It completely unlocks all the visuals of Elite in VR, I don't know what it is about it, it must be all those cuda cores and RAM, but seriously, it's way way better than I expected and much more than just 2x better than the 2080Ti. Here's a review I made. How is the 3080 in comparison?
G1 and G2 have the same resolution so shouldn't be any difference in GPU demand.
However, I won't be upgrading because the experience of a 1080ti with the G1 is bad. On the contrary if you're willing to use WMR reprojection with locked 45fps then the result is really very good (and WMR reprojection is well done)
If you don't want reprojection then the 1080ti will struggle to maintain a locked 90fps at stations/surfaces/rings whatever the graphics settings.
I'll be upgrading because I do a lot of fast moving srv stuff on surfaces, and I want locked 90fps for that.