steam vr performance test

[TheRealCoopster]

steam vr performance test does not include a discussion tab but i am asking how to raise the resolution, i want to save up for a valve index and want to see how well it will run on my pc i.e. resolution. if there is thank you

[Damsteri]

That test is very simple and outdated. It was released back in 2016 when first modern consumer VR headsets were released (HTC Vive and Oculus Rift CV1). It contains only 2 minute rendering from Valve's Aperture Robot Repair VR demo source. Changing resolution doesn't help much, as you are still testing with a very simple VR scene that doesn't correspond what VR games are in 2020. That test can tell you only the obvious, like netbook can't run VR, while gaming PC can.

I suggest you to post your PC specs here and you will get better answer for your question than what that app can ever give you. Important parts are your Operating System, Graphics card, amount of memory, and the fact is your PC a laptop or desktop. CPU is not that important (my gf runs VR with 3rd gen Intel i5) and HDD is enough for storage, while SSD of course helps.

[Felicity]

GPU is most important, it's very difficult to render VR since it's rendering several layers of composited frames
CPU is important depending on the game, if it's heavily physics or ballistics based it may chug during high intensity moments or if many calculations are being done on a lower end machine. Likewise, steamvr is a system hog so extra time for interrupts is nice
16gb of ram is sufficient, preferably at 3000+mhz, but 2400 is probably fine ymmv. 8gb is probably insufficient but I'm sure there will be people who say they can with 8gb and have never experienced a smooth experience in their life

SSD is mandatory in 2020 idk what people are thinking when they say HDD is okay for anything, it's literally the same price or less in some cases, you can get an SSD for $40 for main drive + main game and then use your HDD if you really want for storage. Like seriously the game isn't caching its entire file structure into your memory it is still having to read the disk constantly and newer games have a bottleneck with how hipoly some of the textures and models can get and HDDs are stutter central in 2020.

if you want a somewhat comparable test, 3dmark firestrike extreme (2k) or ultra (4k) will challenge your setup if you have to ask these questions, but don't be too critical on the results since even a proper vr ready PC will have trouble on those, even today. that costs money though if you don't already have it so the nextest best thing is to actually list the specs :p

[TheRealCoopster]

yeah sorry my specs are rtx 2070 oc and a ryzen 5 3600 at 4300 mhz 16 gbs of ram at 3600 mhz i know that my pc can handle it i just want to know how well