Yet another noob question, please don't hit me...

[sirrah]

Hi there!

 

Sorry guys for yet another noob question about VR. I'm very interested in buying a cv1. After reading and watching a lot of VR reviews I expect the rift to be the best choice for me. DCS is in fact the only reason I want to go VR (and maybe Assetto Corsa). I was planning to wait for the Hornet mod to be released, but I just can't wait any longer...:P

 

Now for the noob question part...

From day one I have been playing dcs (connected to a 50" tv) on my MSI "gaming" laptop which I bought about 6 years ago orso:

i5-460M

ATI Radeon HD5870 / 1GB DDR5

DDRIII 4GB (2GB*2)

 

Since then I never kept up with any system improvements (eg. cards, RAM, CPU etc.) so I'm a complete airhead about what there is on the market right now.

 

Ofcourse my laptop isn't fit to support the cv1 so I was wondering what system I should buy to be able to play DCS and all it's modules without any stutters and making use of all it's gfx capabilities.

 

I see lot's of information about gfx cards and other loose components but are there any complete systems out there? Like the ones advertised on the Oculus Rift website. Are they any good for DCS? and for a few years to come also?

https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/

 

Anyone has any advise for me, or tell me where to start looking? (my budget will be around $1500-$2000 incl the Rift)

Edited August 15, 2016 by sirrah

[TAW_Impalor]

I always build/upgrade my own PCs. I think within your budget you can afford current technology: GTX 1080, i7-6700k (more Ghz is better than more cores), DDR4 (16Gb minimum), good mobo...

Edited August 15, 2016 by impalor

[sirrah]

Thanks for this first feedback Impalor. Back in the 90's I usually build my own pc's aswell (with a little help from friends). But I'm not that much into pc's anymore to know what components match best :huh:

 

I did read about the GTX1080 being the best card on the market atm. But then I came across this thread here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=168056

 

:helpsmilie:

[TAW_Impalor]

Saw that thread. Did not stop me from ordering 1080 STRIX. Will receive it tomorrow and will comment. DCS is playable at PD 1.0 on my MSI 760 OC, but I want to read gauges and connect my TV/sound system together with Rift.

[sirrah]

Saw that thread. Did not stop me from ordering 1080 STRIX. Will receive it tomorrow and will comment. DCS is playable at PD 1.0 on my MSI 760 OC, but I want to read gauges and connect my TV/sound system together with Rift.

Don't follow you the entire way, 1080 "STRIX"?, playable at PD 1.0?

But do I understand correctly that one would need a 1080 to be able to easily read gauges?

[rrohde]

PD 1.0 = "Pixel Density" (can be set in the DCS "VR" Setting Options).

[hansangb]

You need as much headroom as possible from CPU, memory, SSD to video card. So layout your budget and go for the best system.

 

The Oculus Ready PCs are already out of date. They show systems with GTX-970 which you should *NOT* get.

[sirrah]

Okay thanks for the warning, thats exactly what I was afraid of.

 

Guess it would be best to ask one of my friends (he's an IT guy) to build the perfect pc for me :thumbup:

[hansangb]

or buy a more modern gaming machine. It depends on your budget.

[TAW_Impalor]

As promised, some comments after upgrading my GTX 760 for 1080. At first, I did NOT see much improvement in VR or on a monitor. FPS gain with the same settings was about 50%, not 200% I expected from the reviews. But then I changed Pixel Density from 1.0 to 2.5 (did not result in ANY FPS hit, unlike with my old 760), and reduced visibility to give the card fewer objects to draw, but with higher quality. Now the game looks nice, runs at 90 FPS in the sky/45 near ground, GPU utilization near 100%. I overclocked my CPU and GPU a little, but it did not improve FPS. So, indeed DCS is bottlenecked by DirectX 11, as some mentioned in other threads.

[hansangb]

Thanks for the follow-up. It's that head room that people miss about upgrading to higher GPU. I get that it may not be worth it to some. For me, the non-hit of increasing pixel density is worth it.

[harf4ng]

The 1080 is maybe a good video card, but how expensive... near the price of the HTC Vive :)