Vr and msi laptop
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I don't think VR will work- I have an MSI Prestige laptop we use at work, and the nVidia rendering is still piped through the Intel integrated graphics adapter, so I can't see how this would work for VR without it being hardwired to the latter.
There is a mini display port next to the hdmi out that I haven't tried yet but I'm not holding out much hope.
Tried it through the desktop PC earlier and it was awesome. No judder at all. Last time I tried it with the laptop I had slight judder which made the whole experience sickening. Played for an hour and it was a different story with 1.3
Tried it through the desktop PC earlier and it was awesome. No judder at all. Last time I tried it with the laptop I had slight judder which made the whole experience sickening. Played for an hour and it was a different story with 1.3
I've got a msi gs70 2od and a dk2 and mine is working and has worked , granted i had a much better expierence when i could manually set my dk2 display properties using extended mode using SDK0501 , but it still works although in a lesser using 1.3sdk - obvioulsy DK2 is unsupported by oculus, and so is it working on laptops as "Cyber reality" (the oculus community chap on the thier support forums is always pointing out) . I think it depends on how your laptops hardware is configured. i know from much testing on my own and from my own expierence that my display ports and the hdmi utilise my Nvidia gtx 765m graphics card, (im fairly sure it does also pipe through the on board intel graphics as well). im still able to utilise the oculus store and alot of thier expierences, i also would recommend utilising at least another monitor through the mini display ports (and setting it as your main display) as oculus likes to mirror using the same graphics card its using to power the oculus, that being said mine will now mirror to it (although previously mirroring or and external display of what your seeing was previously impossible)
- im using windows 10
- nvidia 364.72 drivers
- 1.3 sdk
All this being said . I wouldnt recommend using a laptop with oculus , and im looking forward to 10 months time when the price of a desktop bundled with the cv1 comes into a sensible price range.
(i also think, and yes im sure it detracts from the fact that my current graphics card is below spec for a cv1 at least the reduced resolution of a dk2 is something that it can handle) and yes i am getting black smearing left and right occasionally especially in there new srv menu when you launch game , i have yet test my dk2 planet side mind you since the 1.3 sdk was released. looking forward to see if i can get reshade to play to clear up alot of the ingame menu text but im closely watching the sticky thread for that.
- im using windows 10
- nvidia 364.72 drivers
- 1.3 sdk
All this being said . I wouldnt recommend using a laptop with oculus , and im looking forward to 10 months time when the price of a desktop bundled with the cv1 comes into a sensible price range.
(i also think, and yes im sure it detracts from the fact that my current graphics card is below spec for a cv1 at least the reduced resolution of a dk2 is something that it can handle) and yes i am getting black smearing left and right occasionally especially in there new srv menu when you launch game , i have yet test my dk2 planet side mind you since the 1.3 sdk was released. looking forward to see if i can get reshade to play to clear up alot of the ingame menu text but im closely watching the sticky thread for that.
I'm not ignoring what Blasta has written above (maybe it did work better in old SDKs with the retired Extended Mode), but I do know that the DisplayPort also works off the Intel-integrated graphics chipset unfortunately. I have both HDMI and DisplayPort linked to the projector from this laptop at work, and they both take their resolutions and profiles through the Intel graphics software. Whereas when you open up the nVidia Control Panel and the only choices are the basic 3D options, no resolution/monitor/colour profiling options at all, thus showing it renders DirectX with nVidia then pipes through the Intel GPU. Which is a shame with current VR clearly, but I really think laptops are always a compromised choice because they have to cut corners for performance and size and to extend battery life, whereas there are no such restrictions with a good ol' bulky PC chassis (unless you design it that way!).
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I have a MSI GT80S TITAN SLI laptop.
its runs in full glory in it. oculus and htc vive
https://us.msi.com/Notebook/GT80S-TITAN-SLI-6th-Gen-GTX-980-SLI.html#hero-overview
its runs in full glory in it. oculus and htc vive
https://us.msi.com/Notebook/GT80S-TITAN-SLI-6th-Gen-GTX-980-SLI.html#hero-overview
Still wondering if my (non Optimus) laptop will be up to it
Specs:-
i7-4910
GTX 980M (8GB VRAM) SLI
32GB RAM
I ran the oculus VR test and said the GPU was too weak but assumed it only detected a single 980M
I game on a 4K TV in the lounge so a desktop wouldn't really fit so may eventually go for a small form factor PC.
Only concern is trying to sell the laptop which cost me a small fortune
Specs:-
i7-4910
GTX 980M (8GB VRAM) SLI
32GB RAM
I ran the oculus VR test and said the GPU was too weak but assumed it only detected a single 980M
I game on a 4K TV in the lounge so a desktop wouldn't really fit so may eventually go for a small form factor PC.
Only concern is trying to sell the laptop which cost me a small fortune