April 5, 20206 yr As is obvious, I am an absolute newbie to the world of VR. I want to try out VR with X plane and am looking to buy the minimum hardware, (used), required to do so. What are the only essential Oculus Rift components necessary to try it out. Thanks.
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April 5, 20206 yr Author Thanks. Couple of questions: when you say "controllers", what does that include? Also, I am looking at Rift because that seems to be what I found suggested. Other brands also work well with XP?
April 5, 20206 yr I am curious about this too... I've only tried VR at a few friend's houses.... overall I say it's not ready for prime time but still fun for VFR flight. Is my video card (GTX 1080 Ti) powerful enough? What about CPU? 4790K.... | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
April 7, 20206 yr On 4/5/2020 at 4:07 PM, ryanbatcund said: I am curious about this too... I've only tried VR at a few friend's houses.... overall I say it's not ready for prime time but still fun for VFR flight. Is my video card (GTX 1080 Ti) powerful enough? What about CPU? 4790K.... 1080 ti is minimum . But it will work fantastic.
April 14, 20206 yr On 4/8/2020 at 12:10 AM, Casualcas said: 1080 ti is minimum . But it will work fantastic. Nope that's not right. I have a GTX980ti and the experience is buttery especially in Vulkan. Other specs Haswell at 4.3ghz, 32 GB RAM
April 14, 20206 yr On 4/8/2020 at 1:10 AM, Casualcas said: 1080 ti is minimum I'm using a 1070 on Linux with a PSVR, its good with 11.50. 1 hour ago, Fizzelle said: GTX980ti Its a (very) nice card, but they didn't add the "draw both eyes in one pass" functionality until the 10 series. which means the performance impact on cards released before that is pretty awefull. Just like RTX got added to the 20 series, you can run both raytrace and VR on cards without the specialised silicon - but the performance will leave a lot to be desired. Edited April 14, 20206 yr by mSparks AutoATC Developer
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