doubts on official hw requirements
new to ED Horizons and DK2 just wanted to chime in with my early findings:
on a 1055T@3.6 w 12GB and RX480-8GB i haven't experienced any noticeable fps drops so far. So i rather wonder about the 16gig and CPU requirements because i hardly saw any serious CPU usage yet, nor any RAM usage above 4-5gig.
Official Oculus requirement figures are a joke as well, looks more like a marketing effort in favor of Intel than anything else. Really painful to get around their setup obstacles for users not matching their gear of preference.
In general i question the official HW recommendations completely. In my own experience for DX11 games a 6 or 8 core CPU with reasonable GHz is not as prone to severe fps drops as any 4 core one. Unfortunately the majority of reviews today still look at the max FPS or average FPS when testing CPUs and GPUs. But for VR all we need to know is minimum FPS and minimum/average frame times only. To me it looks like they better would recommend 6 or 8 core setups only.
On the recommendation about the 16gig figure i wonder whether they pulled it from some internal pre beta testing or if they just doubled on 8gig out of the blue. I'd wish they would stick to precise figures from internal testing also for different HUDs. When for DK2 resolution 10gig is enough, they should state it that way. We will see different figures as soon as HUDs with higher res come to markets in future anyways. So a table with real requirements per HUD type would be necessary anyway.
Anybody ever experienced near 16gig yet?
latest info: as Oculus has lowered the minimum requirements for VR on their latest show off event i'm hoping we see improvements in ED as well (including DK2)....other thread
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