Vega and/or Ryzen VR

[vinnybags]

Greetings commanders!

I'm an admitted AMD fanboy. That said, I'm running a Ryzen 1700x @3.8 on all cores on the x370 Taichi with 16GB of 3200 @ 2933 on a water cooled Vega 64

Even before AMD's recent releases, I found it difficult to find good resources with VR users on AMD hardware as everyone has long embraced Nvida for all the right reasons. But since the field has more options now, I was wondering who here has VR running on Vega and what your settings, performance, and tweaking results are.

Stable as a rock running as detailed above, the Vega 64 currently clocks steady at 1720mhz, HBM2 running at 1000mhz and using 17.12.2 runs perfectly, tweaked for performance and stability.

Running the Vive, steam settings supersampling 1.0, async and interleaved rearprojection enabled, all camera options except chaperone bounds enabled, camera at 60hz. VR runs like butter.

ED starting at VR Ultra, running SMAA and Supersampling at 2.0

I have to say that the VR experience is outstanding! There is a stutter point, specifically when close to detailed landscape with reflective surfaces I have noticeable stutter in the headset. Oddly, the VR tracker does not indicate any dropped frames. Anyone have feedback, recommendations?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I have wanted to know about this too. I have an AMD Fury which runs okay on the rift. But I want to upgrade and unsure on what to upgrade to. I have seen lots of issues with the Nvidia drivers recently when the AND ones have been rock solid for me.

 

[vinnybags]

I think the processing power on the fury may be adequate, but the memory may be an issue. My old rig was an Oc'd 8370e @4.1ghz qith 16gb ram and a fury x. Best settings I was able to achieve was VR medium on the Vive, supersampling 1. These settings offered jitter and frame drops when in high res areas. the jaggies were certainly noticeable on any perimeter lines for sure..both horizontal and vertical.
What are your specs?
As was several driver releases ago, I Am pretty sure that AMD now has built in the HBCC memory segment for all of the prior cards drivers and I think the Fury should be able to utilize this. With 16gb, I'm not sure if you would notice too much of a performance gain as this would leave you with only about 5gbs memory left for computing tasks, the added video memory cache gain may be offset by the drop in available system memory. But if you had access to a few extra gigs to total 24, it may be worth a shot.
In my case, I suspect this may help. I may drop another 16gb in..