Oculus Rift - future buyer question

RootBeerTuna

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Hey everyone, hope this is okay to ask here, I didn't see any other similar posts, so maybe I'm posting this in the wrong place, but here goes:

So I would like to purchase an Oculus Rift, essentially just for ED, though in the future if I ever get tired of this game, I may end up playing a few other games as well. But before I do so I just wanted to get some opinions, possibly find someone else that has specs similar to mine, and I wanted to see how well the Rift performs with ED and my specs. I know I'm not going to find anyone with my exact specs, but I was hoping for someone close. I have run the Rift Checker, as well as the Steam VR performance checker thingamajigger, and both of them have passed my system, so I know it meets the minimum requirements. But I don't really want to sacrifice TOO much quality just to play in VR, especially since, at some point, I do plan on buying a new GPU, since I know that's what's holding me back at the moment.

Anyway, long story short, my current specs are:

MSI B350 Tomahawk Arctic MB
Ryzen 7 1700 running at 3.2 to 3.4(depends what I feel like really, but mostly with ED I just leave it at 3.2)
MSI RX 470 8gb Armor OC Edition GPU
16gb of 3200mhz ram(can't remember the exact brand at the moment, not that it really matters, and yes, I flashed the bios and everything so I am actually getting 3200mhz out of it)
Saitek/Logitech x56(obviously this doesn't strictly matter to my VR question, but I thought I would throw it out there anyway)
Ummm, what else am I missing??? Hmm, don't think I'm missing anything.

Currently I am using up all of my USB ports, however I can easily unplug my external HDD's when using the Rift, and anything else I don't necessarily need, at least until I manage to find a USB add-on card for my MB that I like and am willing to spend money on. I know that if I bought the Rift today, I would be capable of plugging it in to my current USB ports, so that's not really an issue. Nor is the required display port an issue. The only thing really holding me back at this point is my question on performance. I currently get 160-180fps in ED, except while in stations where it will drop to roughly 90. I know obviously I won't get those same frame rates with the Rift as it locks it to 90 or something, does it not? I am playing with everything essentially on Ultra, supersampling is only at 1.0 though, never found a reason to up it honestly.

If I were to get the Rift with these specs, would I still be able to play at roughly the same graphics quality, or will I have to lower something drastically just to get a GOOD frame rate? And does anyone here have similar specs as mine and also uses the Rift, or even a Vive, even though the Vive requires a better GPU? My plan is to upgrade my GPU in the future, but obviously with the insane prices right now, I really don't want to do that at the moment. I plan on (hopefully)buying a GTX 1080ti, or possibly whatever the new equivalent Nvidia card is when they're released, so I know at that point I won't really have any performance issues with either the Rift or the Vive if I were to hold off on purchasing VR right now and getting it later, as I know that my GPU is really the only thing limiting me currently.

Well, this is a really long post, so kudos to those of you, if any, that read it in it's entirety!

TL;DR

With these specs, Ryzen 7 1700, RX 470 8gb Armor OC Edition, 16gb 3200mhz Ram, can I play ED at a GOOD quality and still have good frame rate? And does anyone here have the same, or similar, specs as mine?


And I do apologize if people respond but it takes me awhile to reply, sometimes I don't see my emails for forums so I may not realize there might be a reply to my question. So my humblest apologies if I don't respond right away. Thank you all in advance.

Geez, I type a lot. It's this dang mechanical keyboard, I just love hearing it go clickity-clackity!
 

TorTorden_VR

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First things first.
Yes you will have to scale back settings, not even a 1080ti can run everything in max settings but you should be able to hit about med occasionally high settings.

I don't know these AMD gpu's personally but that would be my guess. As for next GPU Nvidia is gearing up to release the 1180 in few months at most, by leaked hearsay and punditry it is guessed at being about 10-15% better than the 1080ti but that could be just wild guessing or right on the money.

As for the rest of your system I believe it's fine, ready to go. Thumbs up.
The GPU as is should be able to handle the cv1 at medium to high settings.
I say that with getting 90fps, and not reprojected.
Many are fine with the latter, and there is nothing wrong with that.

In fact a few things in this game are less than perfect so no matter what something, somewhere regardless of settings and computer power these bugs will trigger it.

As for USB's this can be one od the greatest drawback for the rift. it can use a lot of ports and it will use the full bandwidth of them.
So for fully stable use I need to ensure that at least the cameras doesn't share a mother board connection point, in most cases there are at least two ports to each connection, some have even more. but all four of these ports share common bandwidth.
Now if you have external drives on these others the drives would only use bandwidth when the drive itself is being used. It all depends how many devices you need.
Since for instance your drives only require bandwidth I would consider putting them on a hub, I assume they don't rely on the usb port for power.

In worst case the rift works in ed with just two usb 3.0 ports for the rift itself and one camera.
I highly recommend using both, the second add a lot of tracking stability.

Getting a USB 3.0 expansion card could be a good idea, I got mine from eBay since we dojhave those sold much up here.
There are even those where all ports on the card run on individual controllers so each port can use it's full bandwidth. But I forget the name and model number.

Anyhoo.
There is much more to be done with the cv1 or vr than just Elite.
I honestly have lost virtually all interest in non vr gaming.
And I own my small hometheater with a 90" screen (biggest i can get on the wall honest). And yes I played elite on it.

Not since getting VR though. Which was two years ago and almost 2000 hours in elite since all VR, I have nearly 3000 hours played :(

And I still can't get enough.

But yeah other games.
Any simulation title is transformed, personally outside of ED I play projectcars2 and Euro truck simulator using a g29 wheel, proper control I terrace is as important as the rift itself for immersion.

Other titles, more commonly associated with VR IS Robo Recall.
An hour of that and you will feel like an action God.
Also consider Mages tale, not just excellent vr game but also a great dungeon crawler.

Lone echo is simply one of my life's top games, a must have.
 

Flapdrol1337

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I have an r9 290 which performs similar to the rx 470 in most tests, runs reasonably well but I can't use supersampling (hurts performance a lot).

My pc doesn't have enough usb either, I just got some really cheap usb expanders which plug into the empty usb2 headers on the motherboard. Only have 2 usb3 ports but it seems to work fine with one of the cameras using usb2.
 

Paul Bambury

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I used to run Elite with Rift on a R9 290 (Asus strix edition) and got quite decent performance with custom graphics settings pitched between the VR medium and VR high defaults. The only noticeable performance drops were around heavily trafficked stations. I suspect the Ryzen 7 1800X was helping out, so I'd expect you'll get a reasonable lift from the 1700 chip

Then I got a 1080ti, and it's VR Ultra the whole way...! :D
 

Mot

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I have an RX 480 8GB and get 90FPS on VR Med, and 45FPS with ASW on VR High (Both in station, better outside).
 
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