Vive now cutting its price also. $599

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
yep, although this is a good news, WHY IT IS 699 euros in france ???!!!

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CMDR Dreamstate

CMDR Dreamstate
Shame anyone needs at least a GTX 1080 to make VR amazing :(

GTX 970 was also designed for it, but it is half the power (literally 100%) of the 1080. I'll be looking to 2018 for a graphics upgrade and then, potentially, a VR unit :D
 

Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi
CMDR Dreamstate said:
Shame anyone needs at least a GTX 1080 to make VR amazing :(

GTX 970 was also designed for it, but it is half the power (literally 100%) of the 1080. I'll be looking to 2018 for a graphics upgrade and then, potentially, a VR unit :D
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Well I'm not sure how you define "amazing" but since the Vive launch, we've been running ours off a GTX 760. ED has been perfect in it. We've only have framerate issues in two games so far, Subnautica and Rick and Morty's Virtual Rick-ality.

The games we played most in it are ED, Fantastic Contraption, Vanishing Realms and Space Pirate Trainer.

In the last few weeks we upgraded to a 1070, and now Subnautica plays fine. Haven't bought the rick-ality one again (that wasn't my choice to be fair). So a 1080 definitely not required.

Also, a 970 is over 2/3 of the power 1080. You can see relative benchmarks here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
Rakaposhi said:
Well I'm not sure how you define "amazing" but since the Vive launch, we've been running ours off a GTX 760. ED has been perfect in it. We've only have framerate issues in two games so far, Subnautica and Rick and Morty's Virtual Rick-ality.

The games we played most in it are ED, Fantastic Contraption, Vanishing Realms and Space Pirate Trainer.

In the last few weeks we upgraded to a 1070, and now Subnautica plays fine. Haven't bought the rick-ality one again (that wasn't my choice to be fair). So a 1080 definitely not required.

Also, a 970 is over 2/3 of the power 1080. You can see relative benchmarks here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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nice to know, any idea if SLI supports has been implemented ?
i'm running 2 gtx970
 

Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi
iFred said:
Yes, the immersion is great, but No to the low resolution. I will still wait a year or two..
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Yes, it's definitely better for flying than reading messages. I reset my default position to be further forward than the seat, and it helped a lot with reading the panels.

@Boris, I thought that SLI was more a hardware level improvement, I didn't think that it required software support, so I'm afraid I can't answer that question.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
CMDR Dreamstate said:
Shame anyone needs at least a GTX 1080 to make VR amazing :(

GTX 970 was also designed for it, but it is half the power (literally 100%) of the 1080. I'll be looking to 2018 for a graphics upgrade and then, potentially, a VR unit :D
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I cant comment on the vive, but ED looks pretty amazing in VR to me using my rift, and i only have a GTX 980... pretty much all games i have tried work just fine for me.

the thing is, as new cards come out the price of entry is only going to get lower and lower.....

for now imo @£399 the rift is still the best value for money HMD esp for cockpit games.... but once the rift comes out of sale and goes to £499, the prices are essentially in the same ball park (the rift really needs the 3rd sensor to make tracking comparable, and some may need an extra usb card).. great news for us punters it means you can look at the features of the HMD and decide which you prefer, with the price not really being a sticking point for choosing which one to get..

Its a shame HTC are not including the improved headstrap as standard however... if you want that that is another £100
 
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-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
CMDR Dreamstate said:
Shame anyone needs at least a GTX 1080 to make VR amazing :(

GTX 970 was also designed for it, but it is half the power (literally 100%) of the 1080. I'll be looking to 2018 for a graphics upgrade and then, potentially, a VR unit :D
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You don't need a 1080 to run VR, a 1070 will be very good too, any of the AMD Vega GPUs, the GTX1060 and AMD580 will do VR at reduced quality, but not bad.
My AMD Fury seems to be fine. My motherboard/CPU on the other hand needs updating.
 
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VR Mr Teatime

VR Mr Teatime
I'll add I've been running my Rift since last October on my 4790K based rig with 2x780GTXs in SLI.

I think there's some question about the amount, if any, that SLI brings, so it may be that I'm running on one 780GTX. The point being is I've been very happy with the VR setup and never play on a 2D monitor any more. I also don't get all OCD about frame rate counters, which probably has something to do with it, but instead rate the overall experience and Elite Dangerous is like a completely new and different game in VR.
 
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