Depending on where I am in the world, I play on one of three rigs... One is a laptop running a 780m, one has a 780 ti in it and the other has dual 980s in SLI. I don't get judder anymore on ANY of these setups and the experience is perfect on all three.
Admittedly the lengths I have had to go to testing wise aren't for everybody, but it shows it can be done. An example would be this xmas... I spent the first week of my holiday on the laptop and the second my 780 ti. When I first switched I was tempted to carry on playing on the laptop because I hadn't used the 780 ti rig since the summer and even with all of the new drivers and updates installed, my laptop was running the game way smoother because I'd taken the time to tweak it!
After a good few hours messing with settings and observing temps and frame rates my 780 ti is now outperforming the 780m (as you would expect) with no judder and DSR x 1.5.
My advice is to start with some basics and work from there...
I'm not saying these will or won't make a difference for you but if you enjoy the testing aspect of the dev kit then you might be surprised by the results...
1. Change the monitor port.
2. Disable the monitor when rift is running
3. Change IPD both in oculus app and in the ED config file.
4. Change camera distance and ensure it is in line with your head, not above and angled down.
5. Connect / disconnect the camera power adaptor
6. Change the input method for the rift (DVI / HDMI)
7. Disable Aero
8. Restart rift drivers before launching game.
9. For laptops you may need to uninstall the display drivers (this prevents direct mode from working but stops crashes)
10. Setup camera 5 ft away from you.
11. In NVIDIA control panel, play around with different 3d settings for ED... A good place to start is aiming for max performance rather than quality.
12. Download Playclaw 5 and position the fps, cpu and gpu readouts so they can be viewed in the rift whilst playing. Try to work out where the frame rates are dropping and where the stuttering is happening. Is it cpu or gpu related? Then try tweaking the graphics settings in game to see how this affects FPS and hardware performance.
Finding that sweet spot for your particular rig takes time but is well worth the effort if that kind of thing interests you. I found enabling hyper threading and lowering the model draw distance particularly effective on my latest setup.
Hope this helps
Happy new year!
