Just got my Oculus Rift

[-VR- Max Factor]

So after having a go in ED, and being amazed by the sheer size of the small station I was docked at, I have realised that I need to relearn how to fly my ship/s and maybe get into one that doesn't handle too well like my Vulture does.

No barrel rolls to begin with, jeez did that make my stomach not feel good. Apart from that, what an amazing experience.

Thankfully I don't notice the god rays at all, maybe that is because I wear glasses and used to them, or maybe wearing glasses within the Rift helps reduce them.


And for anyone interested my i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz is fine even if oculus keeps telling me it isn't.

 

[Frank]

So after having a go in ED, and being amazed by the sheer size of the small station I was docked at, I have realised that I need to relearn how to fly my ship/s and maybe get into one that doesn't handle too well like my Vulture does.

No barrel rolls to begin with, jeez did that make my stomach not feel good. Apart from that, what an amazing experience.

Thankfully I don't notice the god rays at all, maybe that is because I wear glasses and used to them, or maybe wearing glasses within the Rift helps reduce them.


And for anyone interested my i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz is fine even if oculus keeps telling me it isn't.

I'm sure they just make up the minimum specifications

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Welcome to the metaverse! You'll get used to the barrel rolls, just a matter of finding your VR legs. Try a couple of rollercoaster sims to toughen you up [big grin]

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I'm sure they just make up the minimum specifications

Not sure what you mean by that. My i5 2500K is overclocked, but at stock it may not be good enough and oculus can't start telling people to overclock their processors.
I may up it to 4.4 as well just to make sure it is fine.

- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -

Welcome to the metaverse! You'll get used to the barrel rolls, just a matter of finding your VR legs. Try a couple of rollercoaster sims to toughen you up [big grin]

Thinking of getting a buttkicker gamer 2 as well, which is meant to help. But yeah. It is spectacular.

 

[dogbite]

Not sure what you mean by that. My i5 2500K is overclocked, but at stock it may not be good enough and oculus can't start telling people to overclock their processors.
I may up it to 4.4 as well just to make sure it is fine.

- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -



Thinking of getting a buttkicker gamer 2 as well, which is meant to help. But yeah. It is spectacular.

As an alterative to Buttkicker you might consider these http://www.parts-express.com/aurasound-ast-2b-4-pro-bass-shaker-tactile-transducer--299-028
I bought a non-swivel (swivel moves around to much when racing) chair and mounted 1 on bottom 1 on back.
I drive them with this http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product...hannel-stereo-receiver-strdh130/10198850.aspx
split off my sound card. This amp would support 4 transducers, however, I find 2 more than enough. Great immersion,especially in Assetto Corsa and DCS

 

[Seneleron]

Try a couple of rollercoaster sims to toughen you up [big grin]

This. There's a demo of one of them on steam. For the first week just Rift in small doses, an hour at a time or so. Gradually build yourself up, it DOES go away. I remember how tired and mildly nauseous I was for the first week or so, now thanks to Elite I have proven I can do 12+ hour marathon sessions, forget to eat or go to the bathroom, get yelled at by the wife and kids for refusing to "get off that thing"...

but YE GODS Elite is a beautiful game in VR!

 

[Frank]

I'm sure they just make up the minimum specifications

Not sure what you mean by that. My i5 2500K is overclocked, but at stock it may not be good enough and oculus can't start telling people to overclock their processors.
I may up it to 4.4 as well just to make sure it is fine.

My processor isn't as powerful as yours and I got no hassles in running Elite. I guess the foundation of the high minimum spec is just that they want to ensure without a shadow of doubt that everyone will experience smooth motion video. For people running as low a spec machine as I, shadow detail should be turned down to a minimum.

 

[VR Dextrovix]

I used to have one of those K series i5 processors, which can have their asses clocked off. But some systems and software still report the base clock (was it 3.2ghz?) as opposed to the eventual overclock, but yeah I got mine to well over 4ghz myself!

I'd say it's the graphics card that'll matter the most to VR performance rather than a processor thing only. But those system spec checkers from Oculus and SteamVR will point out any deficiencies, whether they affect performance or not.

I think god-rays are more apparent to those of us who tried something previously (I had a DK2). I notice it less nowadays now I'm used to the CV1, but any game that has a lot of contrasting colours (white on black is pretty much the worst sadly as in Elite's case) means they'll show up.

Still, I love VR, and certainly won't play Elite without it.

Welcome to the club OP!

 

[TorTorden_VR]

The oculus tester only reads the model numbers on the hardware in the registry and does absolutely no actual testing unlike the steamvr test bit.
And checks up against a list of supported. And so it happens that the 2000 series of cpu's just didn't make the list of ok cpu's.
But there hasn't been all that much happening on the cpu front for ages so it still is quite OK.
And at least if you overclock.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

The oculus tester only reads the model numbers on the hardware in the registry and does absolutely no actual testing unlike the steamvr test bit.
And checks up against a list of supported. And so it happens that the 2000 series of cpu's just didn't make the list of ok cpu's.
But there hasn't been all that much happening on the cpu front for ages so it still is quite OK.
And at least if you overclock.

Yeah it's a pain. It keeps coming up as if I hadn't noticed it all the other times I had dismissed it.

 

[Gortron]

So after having a go in ED, and being amazed by the sheer size of the small station...........

No barrel rolls to begin with, jeez did that make my stomach not feel good. Apart from that, what an amazing experience.

Stop it, just stop it!! [big grin]

My Rift isn't coming until the 20th and I don't think l've been this excited about anything since I was a kid near Christmas. I had a go on VR back in the 90's and was amazed then. Elite and VR is more than I'd ever hoped for really. I'm trying to keep my expectations at a sensible level but your recent posts are making it hard to keep my hype rained in

 

[dogbite]

Stop it, just stop it!! [big grin]

My Rift isn't coming until the 20th and I don't think l've been this excited about anything since I was a kid near Christmas. I had a go on VR back in the 90's and was amazed then. Elite and VR is more than I'd ever hoped for really. I'm trying to keep my expectations at a sensible level but your recent posts are making it hard to keep my hype rained in

You will pee your pants

 

[[HJ]-RedRaven]

You will pee your pants

I think Gortron will wee his pants just waiting! haha
I know I suffered waiting for my Rift while this lot gallivanted about in VR lol.

Just don't go getting all disappointed on us - remember there are caveats to current VR.

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

You want to talk suffering? My rift was in the house for ten days before my new gaming rig arrived to plug it into. Shipped two months early and I'd been holding off for Nvidia to drop Pascal before I bought a PC. Longest week and a half of my life [blah]

 

[Blian]

You will pee your pants

If only... I got mine yesterday, and pooped a little too

 

[dogbite]

If only... I got mine yesterday, and pooped a little too

Glad to see all the soiled underwear. Welcome to VR

 

[Blian]

Glad to see all the soiled underwear. Welcome to VR

Thanks, good to be here

 

[Gortron]

I think Gortron will wee his pants just waiting! haha
I know I suffered waiting for my Rift while this lot gallivanted about in VR lol.

Just don't go getting all disappointed on us - remember there are caveats to current VR.

I think you could be right.... T-13 days! It soundings like I might need a man nappy.

My expectations are hopefully realistic, I've only got an MSI 970GTX gaming at the moment and I'm gonna see how amazballs I find it before I upgrade. If anywhere near as good as I'm praying it will be I'll order a 1080 ASAP.

 

[[HJ]-RedRaven]

I think you could be right.... T-13 days! It soundings like I might need a man nappy.

My expectations are hopefully realistic, I've only got an MSI 970GTX gaming at the moment and I'm gonna see how amazballs I find it before I upgrade. If anywhere near as good as I'm praying it will be I'll order a 1080 ASAP.

Lol, you'd better order that 1080 now then.

Going from a 970 to a 1080, you won't see much in the way of a 'frame rate difference', but you'll be able to apply more detail and over-sampling. You'll get a cleaner image overall and overcome some of the low-resolution aliasing that VR suffers from.

I was a bit underwhelmed by my 1080GTX in ED to be honest - I traded up from a 780GTX, so I was expecting a big jump, with the 780GTX being effectively similar to a 960 and so well under the minimum VR spec.

But, given the frame rate stays pretty much the same due to ATW, after I plugged in the 1080GTX, I saw a little less judder (nice), and could apply 1.3x oversampling in the debug tool to improve the image (nicer). Other than that, the 780GTX was running all Ultra settings anyway. So it didn't FEEL like I got what I paid for the 1080GTX. Same went for Eve:Valkyrie.

However, out in 2D land, Skyrim, GTA and Warframe all went through the roof. Liquid, butter smooth with garlic and all with the gpu hardly breaking a sweat.

In ED I suspect my cpu is holding the 1080 back a little and there's more headroom than the Debug Tool's HUD would imply.
I haven't overclocked anything yet.

 

[Gortron]

Lol, you'd better order that 1080 now then.

Going from a 970 to a 1080, you won't see much in the way of a 'frame rate difference', but you'll be able to apply more detail and over-sampling. You'll get a cleaner image overall and overcome some of the low-resolution aliasing that VR suffers from.

I was a bit underwhelmed by my 1080GTX in ED to be honest - I traded up from a 780GTX, so I was expecting a big jump, with the 780GTX being effectively similar to a 960 and so well under the minimum VR spec.

But, given the frame rate stays pretty much the same due to ATW, after I plugged in the 1080GTX, I saw a little less judder (nice), and could apply 1.3x oversampling in the debug tool to improve the image (nicer). Other than that, the 780GTX was running all Ultra settings anyway. So it didn't FEEL like I got what I paid for the 1080GTX. Same went for Eve:Valkyrie.

However, out in 2D land, Skyrim, GTA and Warframe all went through the roof. Liquid, butter smooth with garlic and all with the gpu hardly breaking a sweat.

In ED I suspect my cpu is holding the 1080 back a little and there's more headroom than the Debug Tool's HUD would imply.
I haven't overclocked anything yet.

Thanks for the tip

I've noticed from various threads that you seem very knowledgeable about the technical aspects of VR. If I may ask, what is your opinion on the 1070 from what you know about it?

Since I got back into PC gaming I've tried to upgrade a cycle behind, or go for powerful but not bleeding edge. I find it is significantly cheaper and PC gaming often feels like people playing Top Trumps when buying parts.... Too much Ram, too powerful a CPU etc that totally exceed requirements and cost a lot more for little gain (like the performance to cost with the 970 and 980). I totally get why people do that but it find it a bit expensive.

Anyhow, yesterday I looked at some reviews and benchmarks of the MSI 1070 GTX and it looks like a very strong card that is only 10-15% behind the 1080 in performance but £270 (AUD 473 cheaper). That is the cost of a PS4 or an all inclusive holiday in Greece for ~5 Fps in 4K. Under normal circumstances that means I'd buy the 1070 but in VR it might make a lot more difference in visual fidelity than 10-15% of however you'd measure that. I suppose I can test the difference from what people say is possible with my 970 when my rift comes (still super excited) but I'd value your input.... Ta Oh and about the CPU bound thing, I'm on an i5 4670K with a light OC to 4.0 so could have problems there too.