This year we have a lot of 8k Vr headsets for PCVR coming out like the Pimax Crystal Super and Pimax Dream Air meaning a resolution of about 3,500x3,500 pixels per eye and a total of 27 million total Pixels.
In order to run these vr headsets with such a sharp image quality and stable framerate you need a PC with insane specs and a high end graphics card.
But I wish Gaming pc manufacters out there would make high end prebuilt pcs for these insane vr headsets so that we could simply buy these computers and plug them in out of the box that way none of this would be like rocket science. Because what’s daunting about building a high end pc is that there are several different components in a pc and what is difficult about that is researching the required information about each PC part to pick out the right components in order to gain high resolution, sharper graphics, faster performance, etc.
What makes this even worse is when you go anywhere on the internet like discord servers to ask for help, all the people are concerned with is spending less money building PCs and all they do is ask you why you need such a high end pc.
Nobody on the internet is eve reliable at helping with this because what they don’t understand is if you want an extremely high end gaming pc like a mad powerhouse computer then trying to spend less is not gonna cut it. You need to know what information or numbers to look for when picking out pc parts to get insanely high specs and you also need to save as much $$$money as possible until you can finally afford that PC which can take 6 months up to a year because PCs can now be $4,000 and of course inflation is always upon us in society.
To run 8k resolution vr headsets and take full advantage of them you basically need to keep saving money for several months to buy everything you need to turn the resolution up as high as possible and maintain safe framerates. And then you need the information on how to get an extremely efficient fan or system for cooling your PC’s processor and internals to avoid lag and keep your pc from overheating or crashing.
If only there were people online who could understand the process of saving up money and preparing to buy such expensive overwhelming tech, how his process works, and why its not an easy thing to do.
There’s no such thing as spending less money or cutting corners when buying a Pc for running a PC headset with 8k resolution like the varjo Xr4.
Going overkill with PC specs is exactly the point.
Holding onto as much money as possible for long periods of time and preparing to buy this insane tech is the key.
I got the point, same here in a way.
Even if you can afford a 5090, you would not get it.
You need water cooling. Otherwise it´s a more like a jet engine or ancient vacuum cleaner noise.
You may need even to solder your 5090 12VPH connector, with the cable, to not let it burn down if power up for 600W+ like I did with my 4090.
Or you go professional with 6K+ for Nvidia ADA 5000 or above.
It is exactly this: the mass cannot afford it at all.
And it is all “overengineered”, way to high resolution for current consumer backend hardware aka Desktop PC.
Slightly lower resolution but higher FoV and 100° stereoscopic overlap would be the selling point, together with the ergonomics of the vision, crystal etc.
You will rather find a guy who anticipates the need of computing power for VR. They did not experience a PIMAX 8K, nor imagine about such device. Then there is eye strain, a strange hammerhead look or uncanny valley “Vision” look and so on. Still a decade to go, to end up in affordable low end consumer market.
If you do not have deep, deep pockets, just forget it.
Yeah not easy. But this is why leveraging Foveate Rendering, FSR)DLSS and other tricks. Like look at th consoles Xbox & PlayStation. Generally they are underpowered but use a variety of methods to push the resolutions by turning some effects down l, r ndering things at different resolution/quality settings etc…
With the end result looking decent even if not to the of master race preferences.
But very much agreed that PC components are getting ridiculous in price points to be out of reach for most people.
Be much easier if they’d let us buy pcs already put together so that we wouldn’t have to go looking for the specs and parts to get the best graphics and performance possible
Agreed Helio - I think a big problem with PC gaming in general is people expect their hardware to run Ultra Settings flawlessly. This is compounded in VR where you have a dual screen setup to give us our Virtual World.
Stepping back on the settings be is frame rate or Graphic Fidelity can make a huge difference with small immersion loss…
Me, I’m using my 8K-X on Normal FOV, 1 setting for SS and 60Hz for my frame rate. I fly Il2 quite well with this setup with decent image quality without AA. My 7900XT manages to keep things smooth which is important to me more so than trying to push higher frame rates with droppage.
It would be nice to run Il2 on Wide FOV at 90Hz with 2x MSAA on Pimax SS at 1 but at this stage, I am prepared to wait a coiuple years for GPU tech to deliver and at a resonable price.
But that you can order, either local builders or some companies offer such complete high end machines. But what for a price you have to pay, that is completely another topic.
Indeed. A friend of mine found having the graphics settings aggravating as he figured if it let him set it. It should be able to handle it. For him it was an issue due to coming from consoles.
Game developers often push the limits with games like Doom, Crysis and Rage at one time being used in new GPUs for benchmarking. Used for a very long time after release.
However yeah some minor tweaks and the end result is quite good with as you said minimal loss for increased immersive smooth play.
Yeah but at least I wouldn’t have to go through all the stress trying to educate myself on finding information for knowing how to select efficient parts that’ll perform well in a pc.
When I ask people for help all they’re worried about is the price of each part and spending less money for my pc. Like that’s not going to help me select well performing PC parts at all, is it?
Sombody was telling me this website will help putting together a PC with parts that are compatable etc. You may want to check it out.. https://pcpartpicker.com/
