The VR Gods have smiled upon me..... for now

CMDR Saunders

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Just got notice that they are preparing it for shipment and charged me for the OR.... should be here this week considering a Tuesday ship date. Happy as a pig in sh....poop.

Just wanted to share as my family isn't near as psyched as I am about VR.

If I can run maxed out (light stuttering in asteroid fields), is it safe to assume I'll be able to run it on the OR? I've only been doing the combat training and so far, it looks beautiful. No problems at all.

Intel Core i7 cpu; 3.1GHz
6MB RAM
Geforce GTX560 Nvidia card
windows 7 64 bit.

Alrighty then. Just wanted to share with you all.
 

Thespen Tombs

Thespen Tombs
For E:D the only worry I have with your rig is the GTX560 as it's a bit low end now, hopefully someone may be using one with the rift and can tell you how it performs.

If you need to upgrade the 970 works great.
 

Alric

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Great stuff.. it's an experience like no other :D
With that rig you will be able to run it and most open space stuff should be fine - but I think stations and asteroid fields will not be a pleasant experience.
A graphics card upgrade would make the world of difference.
 

thafred

thafred
Great! You'r up for a wonderful ride!

Get yourself a gtx upgrade thou, I tried it with my gtx470 which is approximately as fast as gtx560. I could run it with low and lowest OR quality slider, that's about 800x480 .. Not pretty ;)

Get a 970 and play demos in the meantime, most of them work fine with your card!
 
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thafred

thafred
Should be exactly as you said, just plug in and be happy.

Only concern is your power supply although if it had enough juice for a 560 it should work with 970. My 970 used about the same power as my 470 (400w incl. i7 920 PC)
 

thafred

thafred
Just edit autoexec.bat and try to fit mouse driver into lower 640kb.. 6mb of ram should be plenty to run wing commander!

Oops, wrong century...damn you Tardis!
 

Nerddherder

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I have Oculus Rift and just got it a couple days ago. I've played ED the last couple days with it and besides a couple of "flaws" (that probably will be fixed in updates), the game is still a wonder to behold and adds a whole new level to gaming.

However, the 560 will not be enough for the OR, especially in an asteroid belt. I have a GTX 765 and I run smooth without OR on high settings, but major judder in asteroid belts with OR (have to reduce resolution to get "some" smoothness back).

My growing pains:

1. ED will run in direct mode (it did for me at least), but I couldn't get it to give me anything higher than 35-40 fps when in this mode (you need smooth 75 fps to get ride of judder).
2. Use Extended mode for more FPS. In your screen resolution in Windows, set your Rift to Primary (or Secondary... I've really not seen any difference here) screen. You might have to set the screen to rotated and flipped (I had to).
3. When in ED, go to Options and set your Screen to Secondary (or whatever screen your OR is) -- your OR should now have the game in it.
4. Enter the game, go somewhere with a lot of activity. Do you have judder? Close game.
5. If so, try these things to reduce it.
6. Go into Nvidia Control Panel and 3D Settings (I just did a Restore to default here too). Make sure in your global settings you have V-sync set to Adaptive. (Other people have to do other things here, but this worked best for me).
7. Go back into game. Still have judder?
8. If so, turn off Blur (that was a big one for me), lower or turn off Shadows, lower or turn off Bloom, lower or turn off Ambient Occulsion, turn off Anti-Aliasing (or try SMAA -- I see no difference, but people said it helps).
9. Go back into game. Still have judder?
10. Begin lowering other settings BESIDES the Oculus Rift resolution (it's a slider bar toward the bottom and should be all the way to the right)... only do that as a last resort as this will lower the resolution rendered in the actual headset and makes reading fonts completely unbearable.

Side note is that I'm still tweaking to make it as smooth as possible, so these are just a few things I did to help reduce judder. Hopefully with Gamma 2.0 (releasing today) and by full version on the 16th, we'll have more fixes and tweaks to make the experience even better.

Hope that helps.
 
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CMDR Saunders

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6gb ram. LOL. I was getting worried when soemone said that and thought... I need MORE ram?.... that sucks. LOL... 6gb ram.

Thanks for your answers guys. I bit the bullet and bought the 970gtx
 

tommywright

tommywright
Oh nice! You won't have any problems now. We still need ED optimizations along with nvidia and Rift drivers so it won't be perfect but at least you know it's not the gpu's fault. ;)
 

Void

Void
Good decision on the gtx 970. Not just for Elite, but for the first few days you'll probably be knee-deep in demos and even the majority of those need a good gfx card to run properly. I went from a 280x to a gtx970 and before I was droppping sub-75fps in stations and asteroid belts, but now its smooth sailing.

You might also consider overclocking your cpu a bit and since you have an i7, look into disabling Hyperthreading and core parking if you encounter issues.

Welcome to the future. :)
 

rada660

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Thespen Tombs said:
For E:D the only worry I have with your rig is the GTX560 as it's a bit low end now, hopefully someone may be using one with the rift and can tell you how it performs.

If you need to upgrade the 970 works great.
Click to expand...

Well It is very low end now... I myself have the 760... And I still get slight Judder. Enough to give headache to some, but I got accostumed to it. ANd that despite havng most ( if not all ) my quality tone down to lowest possible. Not that makes big difference when with the oculus rift. Dem pixels.
 

CMDR Saunders

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I DID IT! Its in and it works!!!!! Holy crap!

Just played the asteroid combat tutorial and no studdering whatsoever. Before there was studder... even when passing planets in the advanced combat tutorial. No more!

Unbelievable!

I'm not upgraded and waiting on my rift. Thanks guys!!!!
 

Helios

Helios
I upgraded from my GTX 650 Ti Boost to a GTX 970 for ED.

That being said: The GTX 650 Ti Boost is - looking at the performance - VERY similar to a GTX 560 (see this site for example) and it is bearable. So if you don't want to buy a new GPU right away and can live with having slight framerate-drops even at low settings you should be fine. It'll be far from being as great an experience as ED can be, but IMHO even with a GPU on that performance level it is a lot of fun.

EDIT: Oh my, a bit late ... didn't notice the second page. Sorry. ^^
 
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Caspar

Caspar
I've been so tempted to buy one of these - half an inch away from clicking the button - but the fuzziness around the Crescent Bay model and mixed messages about the release date have put me off. If I knew I could get 6 months out of it before either DK3 (if there is going to be one) or consumer release then I'd probably go for it.
 
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