nVidia GTX780 for Rift DK2

[HJ]-RedRaven

[HJ]-RedRaven
God I hate having to ask this sort of question - I'm usually fine with hardware. Just not familiar with the horsepower needed for the DK2 or for triple-screen ED.
Running an i7 3770K @ stock 3.5GHz with 16GB RAM and a single GTX780.
At 1920x1200 it runs max settings at solid 60fps almost all the time.

Anyone using a DK2 with a single GTX780 video card? Too slow for VR?

Triple-screen better for this level of hardware?
 

Karnath

Karnath
I have the exact same CPU also with 16GB RAM, however back when i first got my DK2 I had a GTX770 so a little less performance than your 780 but the game was playable be it on low settings with a little jitter in stations, space was fine.
Over the time there has been performance improvements with 1.3 so I think you might be in with a shout for a decent VR experience even if you had to run it on low settings it's still mind blowing
 

SlackR

Banned
SlackR
Id say it depends on what you want to do... If you have a DK2 already you could probably have a reasonable experience until commercial launch, though I recently sold my 780 ti because it didnt perform to the levels i was happy with. Minimum spec for commercial release is a 970, though oculus and steam run 980s for their demos. So much is changing at the moment though, direct VR, VR sLI, dirext x that id honestly wait now before even thinking about upgrading unless its to a very high end card that will stay relevant for a while.
 

seanwasere

seanwasere
Nvidia released there GameWorks VR drivers now and i think the GTX780 is supported,
on the 20th, Oculus release v 0.7 of there drivers wich also works with the new Nvidia Gameworks VR,
and then hopefully FD updates ED and then all our graphics cards will do VR much better.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
seanwasere said:
Nvidia released there GameWorks VR drivers now and i think the GTX780 is supported,
on the 20th, Oculus release v 0.7 of there drivers wich also works with the new Nvidia Gameworks VR,
and then hopefully FD updates ED and then all our graphics cards will do VR much better.
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that is the dream at least!.

FWIW I agree with others... with that card, stick with what you have, it is ok for DK2, but may struggle with vive/CV1, but they are not here yet and it would be way better to see what is on the market once they are.

ED was playable on low on a GTX670, and indeed it is what i used untill the maxwell launched.... even with that i would not have considered going back to a monitor.

ED should run at least on medium settings with your card in VR, though I suggest supersampling will be off the table (but then it is using my GTX980 as well for an experience i am happy with)
 

[HJ]-RedRaven

[HJ]-RedRaven
I don't have a DK2 yet, just fishing to see if I'll need a heavy vid card upgrade as well :)
Looks like I could run it now... I'll set the monitor to similar settings and see what the visual quality difference amounts to (in 2D).

Thanks for the replies fellas, rep all round.
 

Nebula109

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I have a GTX 780 and have just got the DK2 a couple of weeks ago for a bargain price of £235. For Elite I have most of the settings on High apart from shadows (low) ambient occlusion is off and so is bloom, super sampling is at 1.5x. I tried Nvidia DSR but it didn't do much for me, the built-in super sampling in the Elite graphics menu was much better. Turning the HUD text to green was a major improvement, really made a difference to the readability.

I get slight juddering inside the stations and the occasional blip in super cruise otherwise it runs pretty smoothly.
My set up briefly is,
i5-2500
GTX 780
8GB DDR3 Ram

Task manager shows on average 57% CPU usage with 2.75GB Ram usage, seems like you don't need lots of RAM to run it.
I started with a single monitor and then went to a triple screen albeit with different sizes (second hand stuff) which was a big step up to the game-play and now I have the DK2.

There's no comparison, its VR or nothing now. I spent the first two weeks just sight-seeing and doing nothing constructive.
Now I have bass shakers in my seat and T-Hotas X, good god man when will this madness end, save yourself and stick with a single monitor!
 
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