ValvE's VR performance test - is your PC ready for VR?

[Yoinkerman]

My sli 760s aren't ready, oh well 

[Humbug]

On 2/24/2016 at 4:07 AM, DXMember said:

okay I guess... but why does it reduce IQ if there are no frames below 90?

I really don't know, your guess is as good as mine. I don't know exactly how the engine is determining what image quality to use or whether it waits to drop below 90 fps or whether it's pre-empting etc...

 

On 2/24/2016 at 4:07 AM, DXMember said:

also how do you explain 680's Failing but 770's Passing?

680s are qualifying as 'capable' for most people. You can't look at one or two results where a 680 failed and draw conclusions. It could be any number of factors from drivers to firmware to something else in the system to a throttling GPU  etc... But on average they are only losing slightly to the 770 due to lower clocks (especially on memory).

 

9 hours ago, Thony said:

Does anyone know why the test runs in very small window ?! Mine was little less than 1/4 of 1080p....

I think it's internal rendering at the higher (VR) resolution and just showing this down-sampled thing in a window on-screen for demo purposes.

When I forced it into 1080p fullscreen non-stereoscopic I got near 300fps (R9 290).

 

The resolution of the Vive and Rift is 2160x1080.  i.e. doesn't fit our monitors and it's 2:1 aspect ration

[DXMember]

25 minutes ago, Humbug said:

The resolution of the Vive and Rift is 2160x1080.  i.e. doesn't fit our monitors and it's 2:1 aspect ration

dunno... fit's my 2560x1440 monitor just fine

but it's still less than that... look at all them black bars - they FOV is horrible, it like looking down a barrel

I'm waiting for StarVR if I will ever consider moving to VR then that would be the minimum HMD I'd use

[derick90]

Yup I'm good. =] 

 

[Humbug]

19 minutes ago, DXMember said:

 

look at all them black bars - they FOV is horrible, it like looking down a barrel

don't judge it on a conventional monitor. When actually using the Vive or Rift each barrel will be shown to only one eye. Each has a slightly extended perspective to one side and combined the effective FOV will be ok when you wear the HMD.

[DXMember]

30 minutes ago, Humbug said:

don't judge it on a conventional monitor. When actually using the Vive or Rift each barrel will be shown to only one eye. Each has a slightly extended perspective to one side and combined the effective FOV will be ok when you wear the HMD.

both of them have a 100 FOV

it's like putting eyepatches on a horse so it doesn't look to the sides and always keeps straight

 

grorius vee-aaaar

 

StarVR has a 210 FOV which allows for full peripheral vision as well as eyemovement

http://www.virtualrealitytimes.com/2015/05/24/chart-fov-field-of-view-vr-headsets/ 

[DuckDodgers]

12 hours ago, Thony said:

Does anyone know why the test runs in very small window ?! Mine was little less than 1/4 of 1080p....

 

Not a good test IMO.

The display window is small, but the internal rendering resolution is much larger. The image is simply resized in the framebuffer.

[WereCat]

How does GTX 680 is not ready and GTX 770 is capable when they ARE the same GPUs?

I will be upgrading to new GPU anyway so .. didnt bothered to try the test for my self.

[Guest]

2 GTX 760 SLI

Better than expected

[Master Disaster]

One plus for valve here...

 

At least they seem to be offering advice for VR in general and not just tailored to Vive users. They could have made this test and advert for Vive with a few subtle changes but the didn't.

 

Kudos

[Humbug]

31 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

One plus for valve here...

 

At least they seem to be offering advice for VR in general and not just tailored to Vive users. They could have made this test and advert for Vive with a few subtle changes but the didn't.

 

Kudos

valve shared all their R&D with Oculus. Of course that was before the facebook acquisition and before the vive announcement.

 

I think this has also been a good marketing thing for VR. They could have just released recommended specs... But they know that PC gamers love to benchmark. Releasing this tool has got lots of people talking on forums and posting their scores.

[Master Disaster]

So my result was the same as everybody else's with a 970, no point in osting it.

 

I did however (for shits and giggles) decide to see what happens if I force G Sync onto the app and throttle it back to 60FPS, bizarrely it actually made no difference to the result???

 

[Humbug]

38 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I did however (for shits and giggles) decide to see what happens if I force G Sync onto the app and throttle it back to 60FPS, bizarrely it actually made no difference to the result???

Probably because what it's displaying on-screen is not what matters.

Inside your GPU it's running the simulation at the native resolution of the Vive / Rift with 2:1 aspect ratio and attempting to keep it above 90fps.

On screen it's just showing you a down-scaled version running in a window for demo purposes.

[Fetzie]

Meh, not going to bother until I get my two Polaris 11s in the summer

 

Wasn't going to buy a gen1 VR device anyway.

[Milosonator1]

My slightly OC'd 960 MSI Gaming 2

[chubchub5577]

I am VReady!  

[jagdtigger]

Me too :

[jasonvp]

Ready to go.

 

[captain cactus]

2 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

Ready to go.

 

You and your 5960X/Titan X.

[jasonvp]

Just now, lots of unexplainable lag said:

You and your 5960X/Titan X.

Actually 2 Titan Xs... they're overclocked as is the 5960... ;-)

[connorpiper]

[captain cactus]

51 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

Actually 2 Titan Xs... they're overclocked as is the 5960... ;-)

Gimme one. 

 

Please. I mean, what do you need 2 Titan Xs for anyway?

 

Actually, I see your total rendered frames being up in the 13000s. Mind putting in that -multigpu option in to see if it changes anything?

[jasonvp]

46 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Actually, I see your total rendered frames being up in the 13000s. Mind putting in that -multigpu option in to see if it changes anything?

Very little.  It managed a 14044, with everything else being identical.  I did notice while it was chugging along, that the video output in the window skipped a few times.  But from what I've read online, the multi-GPU support is really finicky and quite lacking.

 

[titanxtoilet<3]

yay

 

If you have a msi 970 with the MSI twin frozr V is pretty good for OC

 

[Matt100HP]

Not too bad, it's nice to know that I can use VR if I ever decide I want to.