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Valve Releases SteamVR Perf Test To Measure Your PC (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: Valve took another step to prepare the world for VR gaming by releasing the SteamVR Performance Test today. This application that is free to download through Steam, runs a portion of the Aperture Science Robot Repair demo originally built for the HTC Vive VR headset, and reports back performance metrics and a grade for your PC's hardware. Scores include a Not Ready, Capable and Ready result as well as an "average fidelity" numeric score that is even more interesting. Valve integrated a dynamic fidelity feature "that adjusts image quality of the game in a way to avoid dropped frames and frame rates under 90 FPS" — a target for an acceptable VR experience. Early results put the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at the top of the GPU stack though AMD's Radeon products do very well at every price point below $600. Is your wallet ready?
I have about $600 into my Gaming PC, which includes a 500GB SSD (could have more now, prices have dipped considerably) and a mid-range video card (still just a 750Ti, look the machine is old now.) This is good enough to play even new titles at decent quality settings at 1920x1200. However, I mostly play older games, because they are cheap. Games of a few years ago run like mad bastards on this rig. And it's also a PC. Sony has put a lot of effort into making you not able to use the PS4 as a PC, even though it's just a PC.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That is why you are not a geek or a gamer.
If you were a geek you'd already have the computer, if you were a gamer you wouldn't be able to stand week platforms like PS4/Xbone.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'