Why does Alyx look and run so much better?

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Half Life Alyx is a VR game so objectively harder to run but yet has better FPS and more detail than CS2?...Why

[StarBeat☆]

I have BEEN. WONDERING. THE. SAME. THING.

It just doesn't make sense to me .. it runs a lot better than CS2 for me,doesn't crash either... I don't get it how and why..

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

I have BEEN. WONDERING. THE. SAME. THING.

It just doesn't make sense to me .. it runs a lot better than CS2 for me,doesn't crash either... I don't get it how and why..

Its the same engine as well, forgot to include that in my original post

[StarBeat☆]

Originally posted by PP:

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

I have BEEN. WONDERING. THE. SAME. THING.

It just doesn't make sense to me .. it runs a lot better than CS2 for me,doesn't crash either... I don't get it how and why..

Its the same engine as well, forgot to include that in my original post

Yup . Maybe the CS2 team needs some help from the employees who worked on Alyx so they can make CS2 perform more stable and better, but I neither work at Valve or know game development,so I'd better not comment..

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

Originally posted by PP:

Its the same engine as well, forgot to include that in my original post

Yup :Kotori:. Maybe the CS2 team needs some help from the employees who worked on Alyx so they can make CS2 perform more stable and better, but I neither work at Valve or know game development,so I'd better not comment.. :melon:

I mean you dont need to know game dev to know something should change with how poorly CS2 launched

[StarBeat☆]

Originally posted by PP:

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

Yup . Maybe the CS2 team needs some help from the employees who worked on Alyx so they can make CS2 perform more stable and better, but I neither work at Valve or know game development,so I'd better not comment..

I mean you dont need to know game dev to know something should change with how poorly CS2 launched

Heh,true I guess..

Oh and,have you been playing Alyx on the Deck or are you playing on PC with a VR Set?

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

Originally posted by PP:

I mean you dont need to know game dev to know something should change with how poorly CS2 launched

Heh,true I guess..

Oh and,have you been playing Alyx on the Deck or you're playing on PC with a VR Set?

I have played Alyx on my old desktop that I sold and nowadays my gaming laptop with Valve index and get a constant 120+FPS on high

Alyx cant run on Deck I think

[StarBeat☆]

Originally posted by PP:

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

Heh,true I guess..

Oh and,have you been playing Alyx on the Deck or you're playing on PC with a VR Set?

I have played Alyx on my old desktop that I sold and nowadays my gaming laptop with Valve index and get a constant 120+FPS on high

Alyx cant run on Deck I think

People got it to run with the NoVR mod from what I heard,and it can run it quite well supposedly.
I'm yet to replay HL1 with BM and yet to finish HL2 so I plan to get into Alyx after that.

Edit: looked it up and with a VR Headset it runs BAD. NoVR runs it good though.

[Renos]

i wouldnt say it runs better its optimized for 2 very diffrent scenarios.
remember as a vr game it only has to target a framerate of 90fps for most headsets 72 for most oculus ones at some very high resolution numbers valve index for example is 2880x1600
And if course since its a single player VR game they can push the detail a lot more.
to even get the game to run on the deck they had to drop the res down to 720p or even lower with fsr and lower the graphics settings lower than what is normally allowed.

meanwhile cs2 is a competitve shooter where for most people the minimum fps target would be 140fps to make use of a 144hz monitor
236 for 240hz
and lower the detail by a lot because players would complain about to much visual clutter.

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by BLUTSAUGER ⛧:

Originally posted by PP:

I have played Alyx on my old desktop that I sold and nowadays my gaming laptop with Valve index and get a constant 120+FPS on high

Alyx cant run on Deck I think

People got it to run with the NoVR mod from what I heard,and it can run it quite well supposedly.
I'm yet to replay HL1 with BM and yet to finish HL2 so I plan to get into Alyx after that.

Edit: looked it up and with a VR Headset it runs BAD. NoVR runs it good though.

NoVR makes sense tbh since I know deck can run CS2 although I did see one guy BARELY get 45FPS on I think pavlov with a bunch of intensive modifications but I think all this is just speaking towards the quality of the deck rather than Source 2

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by Renos:

i wouldnt say it runs better its optimized for 2 very diffrent scenarios.
remember as a vr game it only has to target a framerate of 90fps for most headsets 72 for most oculus ones at some very high resolution numbers valve index for example is 2880x1600
And if course since its a single player VR game they can push the detail a lot more.
to even get the game to run on the deck they had to drop the res down to 720p or even lower with fsr and lower the graphics settings lower than what is normally allowed.

meanwhile cs2 is a competitve shooter where for most people the minimum fps target would be 140fps to make use of a 144hz monitor
236 for 240hz
and lower the detail by a lot because players would complain about to much visual clutter.

My laptop gets 120+ FPS at all times on Alyx at high settings but on CS2 I regularly get drops below 100 when on low lol

[StarBeat☆]

Originally posted by PP:

Originally posted by Renos:

i wouldnt say it runs better its optimized for 2 very diffrent scenarios.
remember as a vr game it only has to target a framerate of 90fps for most headsets 72 for most oculus ones at some very high resolution numbers valve index for example is 2880x1600
And if course since its a single player VR game they can push the detail a lot more.
to even get the game to run on the deck they had to drop the res down to 720p or even lower with fsr and lower the graphics settings lower than what is normally allowed.

meanwhile cs2 is a competitve shooter where for most people the minimum fps target would be 140fps to make use of a 144hz monitor
236 for 240hz
and lower the detail by a lot because players would complain about to much visual clutter.

My laptop gets 120+ FPS at all times on Alyx at high settings but on CS2 I regularly get drops below 100 when on low lol

Yeah that's just on CS2 sadly,pretty much the same experience here...

[RTX 9090 Ti]

Originally posted by Thug Hunter 420:

Cs2 runs at 500 frames constant for me. (244hz 4k)

is this a meme