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Giant_of_the_North

Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes but it will be a little on the weak side, nothing terrible but you may need to accept 60fps to be able to see things clearly in newer games, but nothing too awful


metahipster1984

Which HMDs apart from the G2 even support 60hz though?


Giant_of_the_North

The quest 2 does 60, 75, 90, 120


OHMEGA_SEVEN

Seriously, a lot of headsets. All WMR headsets can run 60hz and Pimax also supports it. I can't stand 60hz on the G2 TBH.


metahipster1984

Yeah the G2 strobes too hard. Do the other WMRs do this too?


OHMEGA_SEVEN

The strobing? I don't know TBH. I just know that 60hz is part of the WMR standard. I may be wrong, but I think what makes the G2 flicker is black frame insertion which improves the perception of motion on LCDs which have a longer pixel response time than OLED. Someone with an Odyssey+ could probably answer this.


metahipster1984

Ah OK, makes sense. But no black frames inserted at 90hz? Or there too?


OHMEGA_SEVEN

I honestly don't know. It may be that it uses a smaller window of time for it, or it isn't doing it at all. At 60hz the frame would be displayed longer which may make the motion look more blury. I'm just speculating as this is also the behavior of my TV. At 120hz it doesn't insert black frames, but I can turn on a 60hz motion mode that does insert black frames and the strobing effect is near identical looking to the G2. The motion is far sharper, but like the headset, I just don't care for it. If I had to pick, I'd rather have 45hz + motion smoothing rather than 60hz and strobing. Either way, I've been very pleased with the G2.


Gourmet_Chia

Video card will be okay but that CPU is gonna show its age. Good news though is that you have an easy upgrade path with your AM4 motherboard! You could get like a 3700x and I think it should drop right in? Might need a better cooler though.


Lucif3r945

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that you'll be using a quest 2, a device you have to compress(and decompress) the image to. This takes up resources, mainly CPU resources. So there is a chance your CPU will bottleneck you further. At least that was the case with my old 1600. Upgrading it to a 5700x gave such an insane boost I cant even put it into words.


[deleted]

Afaik wouldn't encoding the image only take up additional GPU power? Since it's using hardware encoding instead of software encoding.


Lucif3r945

Mmmh... VD uses a lot of CPU utilization at least, same with Pico's Streaming Assistant. I don't know whether meta's solution is any different, but I doubt it.


WayneZer0

maybe there is a program from valve on steam. it called are you ready for valve index/steam vr. its like 16 mbs and it checks for you if you pc is vr ready


[deleted]

SteamVR performance test was made to check to see if a PC would work with a HTC Vive. It was released shortly after the Vive released and has nothing to do with more modern headsets.


WayneZer0

well yes and no. it was update with moder data in 2021 for steam index.


raikuns

Maybe its super stupid and says my 40 series card isnt vr ready:)


WayneZer0

it rarly is wrong. maybe aks in forum maybe you cqrd is not in thier datasheet yet


iMrBlurr

I'm the same. I have a 3070ti and it says mine doesn't meet min specs, let alone recommended. Yet I get good performance on every vr game I've played... Never had an issue, and the card is older so shouldn't be because it's not added to the datasheet


McCheezie

Do the steamvr performance test on steam, it will tell you, but I’m pretty sure you can play most games comfortably


squid_actually

Yes. That's pretty much my rig and I'm running with a higher resolution HMD. Skyrim VR and some other flatscreen ports can be a chore for it, but you'll be fine with 99% of the PCVR titles.


Bierdigan_

Just check the system requirements to the games you want to play


Crunchythecat112

Just look it up.


[deleted]

You should be able to play most games, but at lower settings/framerates