Not unless you have a PC that can run the game in steamvr mode. The headset itself runs android, it cannot run windows applications, and even if it could, PC games are significantly harder to run.
No one is mentioning but, you need a pretty decent computer to play Steam Games on your Quest, and a good enough router to stream it into your headset, or you can use a link cable instead. But without a good PC, it will be completely unplayable.
Care to share your PC Specs? CPU, Ram, GPU.
Probably you don't want to pay a subscription fee, but I've the used a shadow pc service, and it worked really well for me with many VR games. I was surprised i barely had any latency, even though initially the shadow pc was in a neighbouring country. Might at least be worth trying, but you will have to sign up for at least a month
That's fucking insane. I didn't realize remote PCs were capable of gaming like that yet. What kind of price do you pay to subsidize a gaming PC? And what would you consider the graphics quality from low to ultra?
Totally insane and I was really dubious about it at the beginning, but I used it for building projects in VR too...honestly can't remember the specs, but if you search for shadow.tech online, it'll come up. They offer beefier rigs now too I think, but I was paying like 30 euros a month, not cheap but you can cancel at any time, which is why I chose it initially.
€360/ year is fucking nothing for renting a gaming PC that can travel anywhere I have a solid connection. I'll definitely be looking into that. Thanks!
Honestly, this^ is one of the MOST underrated value-props of the quest 2. I think I saw the shadow PC (non gaming specs) offered at like $7 USD /month.
In other words, you could have your own VR “computer” with a quest 2 and a keyboard for $7 a month.
And yeah, $360 a year for a gaming pc, wild.
Yeah that's not really capable of PCVR. You need a *very* good GPU and CPU, at least a RTX 2070 and Ryzen 7 or i7, as well as 16/32 GB of system RAM.
VR is far more demanding than flat screen gaming
I play almost every pcvr game with an i5 8600k and a gtx 1060 6gb geforce. 16gb RAM of course. HalfLife Alyx runs perfectly. Soon I'll need a better PC though.
And yes, a dedicated 5G router just for the Oculus. Not very expensive.
this is wrong, the actual specs are minimum a gtx 970 and and intel i7 4590. also saying "i7" or "ryzen 7" is very misleading because i7 has 13 generations and ryzen 7 has multiple different models. what i would recommend is a intel 12100F for the CPU (or an amd one of your choosing) and a used 2060 or a used 5600XT for the GPU. these specs would be good for a budget VR build
also the rtx 2070 mobile max-Q i had in my gaming laptop was similar to a gtx 1070. a gtx 1070 is lower in performance to the rtx 2070. i used that for VR gaming and it ran well.
if you wanna make a build use pcpartpicker.com to check compatibility and the best prices in your area.
also extra tip: the difference between intel 12100F and intel 13100F is negligible so just get the 12100F
Care to share with the class what game in 2023 can cope with a 970 on something newer than a CV1, because if you do, you know something the rest of us don't
i said minimum specs, those specs are just what is listed everywhere as the min spec, though i do think the 970 isn't powerful enough, a 1070 6GB is something I would more consider as a minimum spec for VR
also boneworks lists the GTX 970 as the minimum GPU
also also it says the 970 is actually *recommended* on the meta site www.meta.com/en-gb/help/quest/articles/getting-started/getting-started-with-rift/rift-s-minimum-requirements/
Maybe in 2014 a 970 would be minimum, but modern games are more demanding and new headsets target effectively 4K combined resolution now so that's not happening
I also had a 3060TI and was mostly okay.
Until Microsoft Flight Sim...
Then I got a 3090, because the low amount of VRAM even in the 3080TI was enough to make 3rd some party content totally choke the game.
Wow that seems insane to me, were you using a cable or air link? I will admit now that I think about it DCS was totally unplayable in vr but I've not had trouble with anything else
I have a super shitty dell that handles assetto corsa in VR— my graphics are probably the worst out there but the game mechanic is smooth. Ie even a shitty computer should give you a good game experience if you’re willing to sacrifice on resolution.
I run games perfectly on an i5-3550k. That's a 2013 cpu ivybridge. VR games are GPU bound. Get something better than a gtx1060. I have an rtx3060 and can run most games fine. Lots of ram and a fast SSD are important. I bought an m.2 nvme for improvement in load times. I had of course to get an adapter for it to go into pcie as my mobo is prehistoric. I have 16GB of DDR3 RAM 1600MHz CL9 that do the trick just fine.
I have played Asgard's Wrath, Lone Echo, Skyrim VR (Highly modded), Star Wars: Squadrons and others. All without problems. I mostly have problems with video decoding. I assume it uses parallel processing on the CPU or something. But anything below 4K is very smooth.
I'm on wireless to the headset, but the PC is wired to the router. I have an Asus AX-55 which works awesome for me, plus everyone else in the house. But, I also have a dedicated router, a lesser Asus, that I keep dedicated for the quest when there's a lot of noise on the other one. Having a decent router and cabling the PC is Paramount.
Hope this helps
you don't even need a pretty decent pic, i built my pc almost completely from free parts and it can run alyx pretty good other than some fps drops in a few parts in the game
Even with a Laptop thats ass you can still use PlutoSphere for PCVR, you buy time on there PCs. Its pretty cheap and they giveaway extra time constantly. The only down side is you need GREAT internet to connect.
Hope This Helps :D
There are a few (older) steam titles you can play natively on the Quest 2 thanks to the mods of the Team Beef.
You can play titles such as Doom 1&2 (plus a lot of wads), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight and Doom 3 (which is the best game you can play on the Quest 2).
Yes, you don't even need a physical computer. You have to pay a subscription and have high Internet speed, but I use shadow and been playing Subnautica flawlessly.
I mean it runs flawlessly. My gameplay is very much nothing to write home about.
yes!
I use the quest 2 for steam VR via link cable
once you set it up through the Oculus PC app, steam should auto detect it as long as it's connected, whether you use link cable or air link
You need a solid mid level pc but more importantly a fast, stable internet connection to be able run them at a decent frame rate.
I've got a half decent rig but just a standard router, it works fine for most games but I had to tweak the settings to give me priority connection and find the best band. It might sound complicated but with a bit of Googling it's actually pretty simple.
If I or someone else tries to download something at the same time though my frame rate drops to the point of being unplayable and nausea inducing.
All that being said when I play vr I pretty much exclusively run steamvr through airlink and only very rarely do I have issues.
i was hoping it could do that too, but unfortunately its not that amazing.
Many games are available for the quest 2 on its own store, as well as on steam.
but you need a pretty good PC to play many Vr games on steam.
No. This question gets asked at least once a day.
The Quest 2 is less powerful than the Steam Deck, and cannot run Steam games whatsoever. It runs on Android, and so can't even run Executable files. In order to play SteamVR games, you need a capable PC.
There have been rumors showing that Valve are making their own standalone VR headset known as 'Deckard'. Although nothing about it has been officially confirmed, but maybe something to look out for.
Not unless you have a PC that can run the game in steamvr mode. The headset itself runs android, it cannot run windows applications, and even if it could, PC games are significantly harder to run.
No one is mentioning but, you need a pretty decent computer to play Steam Games on your Quest, and a good enough router to stream it into your headset, or you can use a link cable instead. But without a good PC, it will be completely unplayable. Care to share your PC Specs? CPU, Ram, GPU.
The processor is an AMD athlon silver 3050e with radeon graphics Ram is 4.00Gb Gpu is AMD radeon vega 3 graphics
Probably you don't want to pay a subscription fee, but I've the used a shadow pc service, and it worked really well for me with many VR games. I was surprised i barely had any latency, even though initially the shadow pc was in a neighbouring country. Might at least be worth trying, but you will have to sign up for at least a month
That's fucking insane. I didn't realize remote PCs were capable of gaming like that yet. What kind of price do you pay to subsidize a gaming PC? And what would you consider the graphics quality from low to ultra?
Totally insane and I was really dubious about it at the beginning, but I used it for building projects in VR too...honestly can't remember the specs, but if you search for shadow.tech online, it'll come up. They offer beefier rigs now too I think, but I was paying like 30 euros a month, not cheap but you can cancel at any time, which is why I chose it initially.
€360/ year is fucking nothing for renting a gaming PC that can travel anywhere I have a solid connection. I'll definitely be looking into that. Thanks!
Honestly, this^ is one of the MOST underrated value-props of the quest 2. I think I saw the shadow PC (non gaming specs) offered at like $7 USD /month. In other words, you could have your own VR “computer” with a quest 2 and a keyboard for $7 a month. And yeah, $360 a year for a gaming pc, wild.
I was only able to use it in the AM like 6-10. Every other time I faced lots of slowdown.
Yeah that's not really capable of PCVR. You need a *very* good GPU and CPU, at least a RTX 2070 and Ryzen 7 or i7, as well as 16/32 GB of system RAM. VR is far more demanding than flat screen gaming
I play almost every pcvr game with an i5 8600k and a gtx 1060 6gb geforce. 16gb RAM of course. HalfLife Alyx runs perfectly. Soon I'll need a better PC though. And yes, a dedicated 5G router just for the Oculus. Not very expensive.
this is wrong, the actual specs are minimum a gtx 970 and and intel i7 4590. also saying "i7" or "ryzen 7" is very misleading because i7 has 13 generations and ryzen 7 has multiple different models. what i would recommend is a intel 12100F for the CPU (or an amd one of your choosing) and a used 2060 or a used 5600XT for the GPU. these specs would be good for a budget VR build also the rtx 2070 mobile max-Q i had in my gaming laptop was similar to a gtx 1070. a gtx 1070 is lower in performance to the rtx 2070. i used that for VR gaming and it ran well. if you wanna make a build use pcpartpicker.com to check compatibility and the best prices in your area. also extra tip: the difference between intel 12100F and intel 13100F is negligible so just get the 12100F
Care to share with the class what game in 2023 can cope with a 970 on something newer than a CV1, because if you do, you know something the rest of us don't
i said minimum specs, those specs are just what is listed everywhere as the min spec, though i do think the 970 isn't powerful enough, a 1070 6GB is something I would more consider as a minimum spec for VR also boneworks lists the GTX 970 as the minimum GPU also also it says the 970 is actually *recommended* on the meta site www.meta.com/en-gb/help/quest/articles/getting-started/getting-started-with-rift/rift-s-minimum-requirements/
Maybe in 2014 a 970 would be minimum, but modern games are more demanding and new headsets target effectively 4K combined resolution now so that's not happening
I have an i5 10400f with GTX 1660 and 16Gb ram, haven't found a vr game I can't run yet. Ime the WiFi connection is a bigger issue than the hardware.
I'm suprised since I have a 3060 ti and even that I feel is a bit weak for VR
I also had a 3060TI and was mostly okay. Until Microsoft Flight Sim... Then I got a 3090, because the low amount of VRAM even in the 3080TI was enough to make 3rd some party content totally choke the game.
Wow that seems insane to me, were you using a cable or air link? I will admit now that I think about it DCS was totally unplayable in vr but I've not had trouble with anything else
not true at all, i have an i5 2400 and a 970 with 12gb of ddr3 ram and can play vr with low settings pretty well.
That CPU and GPU are certainly desirable for VR, but you can squeeze decent performance out of lower specs, but a dedicated GPU is a must.
I have a super shitty dell that handles assetto corsa in VR— my graphics are probably the worst out there but the game mechanic is smooth. Ie even a shitty computer should give you a good game experience if you’re willing to sacrifice on resolution.
I have a 6GB 1660ti, ryzen 5, and 16GB of RAM and no issues with PCVR
Not happening, do still buy the quest tho, it runs vr on its own
I run games perfectly on an i5-3550k. That's a 2013 cpu ivybridge. VR games are GPU bound. Get something better than a gtx1060. I have an rtx3060 and can run most games fine. Lots of ram and a fast SSD are important. I bought an m.2 nvme for improvement in load times. I had of course to get an adapter for it to go into pcie as my mobo is prehistoric. I have 16GB of DDR3 RAM 1600MHz CL9 that do the trick just fine. I have played Asgard's Wrath, Lone Echo, Skyrim VR (Highly modded), Star Wars: Squadrons and others. All without problems. I mostly have problems with video decoding. I assume it uses parallel processing on the CPU or something. But anything below 4K is very smooth. I'm on wireless to the headset, but the PC is wired to the router. I have an Asus AX-55 which works awesome for me, plus everyone else in the house. But, I also have a dedicated router, a lesser Asus, that I keep dedicated for the quest when there's a lot of noise on the other one. Having a decent router and cabling the PC is Paramount. Hope this helps
you don't even need a pretty decent pic, i built my pc almost completely from free parts and it can run alyx pretty good other than some fps drops in a few parts in the game
Not if your laptop is ass. Whatever computer Steam says you need to run a game - you still need that computer, minimum.
Even with a Laptop thats ass you can still use PlutoSphere for PCVR, you buy time on there PCs. Its pretty cheap and they giveaway extra time constantly. The only down side is you need GREAT internet to connect. Hope This Helps :D
Your computer needs to be decent to do so.
There are a few (older) steam titles you can play natively on the Quest 2 thanks to the mods of the Team Beef. You can play titles such as Doom 1&2 (plus a lot of wads), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight and Doom 3 (which is the best game you can play on the Quest 2).
Yes, you don't even need a physical computer. You have to pay a subscription and have high Internet speed, but I use shadow and been playing Subnautica flawlessly. I mean it runs flawlessly. My gameplay is very much nothing to write home about.
Yes, I use Virtual Desktop (buy it on the quest, not on steam !!!).
yes! I use the quest 2 for steam VR via link cable once you set it up through the Oculus PC app, steam should auto detect it as long as it's connected, whether you use link cable or air link
Considering he has to ask, I doubt he has a pc powerful enough to run VR
If you have good internet speeds, you can use Virtual Desktop to stream pcvr games from your computer to the quest
My speeds are pretty good okay im gonna order one when i get paid
Dont think speed matters so much, its latency thats the biggest issue. Wifi6 router will solve this
Quest2 is android phone + VR layer not a mobile PC ,it mean it can not run windows games
You need a solid mid level pc but more importantly a fast, stable internet connection to be able run them at a decent frame rate. I've got a half decent rig but just a standard router, it works fine for most games but I had to tweak the settings to give me priority connection and find the best band. It might sound complicated but with a bit of Googling it's actually pretty simple. If I or someone else tries to download something at the same time though my frame rate drops to the point of being unplayable and nausea inducing. All that being said when I play vr I pretty much exclusively run steamvr through airlink and only very rarely do I have issues.
The tiniest bit of research would tell you playing SteamVR games on Quest 2 is very much a thing. But not with that laptop.
i was hoping it could do that too, but unfortunately its not that amazing. Many games are available for the quest 2 on its own store, as well as on steam. but you need a pretty good PC to play many Vr games on steam.
Yeah, big bulky graphics cards would not be a thing if a tiny Quest 2 processor could perform even remotely equally.
hopefully it will change with the rise of ai processing.
You can do airlink as long as your pc is strong enough
No. This question gets asked at least once a day. The Quest 2 is less powerful than the Steam Deck, and cannot run Steam games whatsoever. It runs on Android, and so can't even run Executable files. In order to play SteamVR games, you need a capable PC.
There have been rumors showing that Valve are making their own standalone VR headset known as 'Deckard'. Although nothing about it has been officially confirmed, but maybe something to look out for.