Bad performance on minimum specs, lowest settings.

[sylas]

Hey everyone, I would very much like to talk to the devs my closest option to that is steam discussions, so here is my problem.

Today I bought bonerworks and it instantly became my favorite VR game, for 1 hour. Simply because my poor old GTX 970 just couldn't handle the first city level (Accessed from the gift shop trash chute) more specifically my i5 6500 3.2ghz quad core and 16gbs of ram. My hardware is meeting the minimum specs and I'am running at the lowest possible settings, Playing the game at 45fps reprojecting is fine playing the game at 99% GPU usage and 25fps is not.

My question is, is this bad performance just me? Or have the devs just missjudged the minimum requirements for their game?

I would so much like to play this game so any help will be very appreciated.

Edit: Playing on a oculus rift CV1 with touch.

[Donut Grunt]

Sadly you're gpu is on the low end, bare minimum. Then it doesn't help that theres not native Oculus SDK support so theres that performance loss going through SteamVR only

[sylas]

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

Sadly you're gpu is on the low end, bare minimum. Then it doesn't help that theres not native Oculus SDK support so theres that performance loss going through SteamVR only

Yes I've realized it's the bare minimum just expected it to be playable. Any recommendations on new GPUs to get this Christmas? Trying not to bottleneck my i5 so I was thinking the Rx 580 8gb purely for the VRAM that maxes out so often on my 970. If your not aware the 970 has 3.5gb of fast vram and 500mb of slow VRAM that murders my fps, come to think of it it may be the problem in large areas in game.

[Donut Grunt]

You're going to need a better CPU as well. Boneworks is CPU heavy and they recommend i7's because of the ammount of cores.

Get like a 2070 S for GPU and a i7 9900k/or Ryzen 7 3700x. But that would require a new motherboard.

But if you can only afford one, get a new GPU for now

[XDeathxReconX]

Yeah its not the game bud

[sylas]

Back to beat saber it is

[sylas]

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

You're going to need a better CPU as well. Boneworks is CPU heavy and they recommend i7's because of the ammount of cores.

Get like a 2070 S for GPU and a i7 9900k/or Ryzen 7 3700x. But that would require a new motherboard.

But if you can only afford one, get a new GPU for now

Nearly 1000$ upgrade 😔😔

[Fihrst]

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

You're going to need a better CPU as well. Boneworks is CPU heavy and they recommend i7's because of the ammount of cores.

Get like a 2070 S for GPU and a i7 9900k/or Ryzen 7 3700x. But that would require a new motherboard.

But if you can only afford one, get a new GPU for now

runs really nice on my i5 2500k and 1070ti.

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

Sadly you're gpu is on the low end, bare minimum. Then it doesn't help that theres not native Oculus SDK support so theres that performance loss going through SteamVR only

Yes I've realized it's the bare minimum just expected it to be playable. Any recommendations on new GPUs to get this Christmas? Trying not to bottleneck my i5 so I was thinking the Rx 580 8gb purely for the VRAM that maxes out so often on my 970. If your not aware the 970 has 3.5gb of fast vram and 500mb of slow VRAM that murders my fps, come to think of it it may be the problem in large areas in game.

find used 1070ti or 1080.

[Susikohmelo]

I have the same issue and it seems to run fine but only without the usage of steamvr. Something like opencomposite makes it run very smoothly but the hands ingame float like 50cm above where they should be so thats not really an option at the moment.

[Fihrst]

you can try finding a way to disable display mirroring. People say it doesn't affect performance but back when I had 970 I noticed a small jump in performance after getting rid of it.

[sylas]

Originally posted by Haddedam:

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

You're going to need a better CPU as well. Boneworks is CPU heavy and they recommend i7's because of the ammount of cores.

Get like a 2070 S for GPU and a i7 9900k/or Ryzen 7 3700x. But that would require a new motherboard.

But if you can only afford one, get a new GPU for now

runs really nice on my i5 2500k and 1070ti.

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

Yes I've realized it's the bare minimum just expected it to be playable. Any recommendations on new GPUs to get this Christmas? Trying not to bottleneck my i5 so I was thinking the Rx 580 8gb purely for the VRAM that maxes out so often on my 970. If your not aware the 970 has 3.5gb of fast vram and 500mb of slow VRAM that murders my fps, come to think of it it may be the problem in large areas in game.

find used 1070ti or 1080.

Ok but I'll need a bigger power supply for that lol.

[Vulpeculus]

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

Originally posted by Haddedam:

runs really nice on my i5 2500k and 1070ti.


find used 1070ti or 1080.

Ok but I'll need a bigger power supply for that lol.

I had the same setup than you, and upgraded to a 2070 without upgrading my 550W power supply. The 2070 does not require a lot more power than the 970, sure it's a lot more powerful, but also much more power efficient.
You'd be good for this game by just upgrading to a 2070 (well I am).

About the performances with the minimum required specs, have you checked that SteamVR is not supersampling games a bit too much ? When I had my gtx 970 I had to lower it a bit for some games.

[sylas]

Originally posted by Vulpeculus:

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

Ok but I'll need a bigger power supply for that lol.

I had the same setup than you, and upgraded to a 2070 without upgrading my 550W power supply. The 2070 does not require a lot more power than the 970, sure it's a lot more powerful, but also much more power efficient.
You'd be good for this game by just upgrading to a 2070 (well I am).

About the performances with the minimum required specs, have you checked that SteamVR is not supersampling games a bit too much ? When I had my gtx 970 I had to lower it a bit for some games.

Supersampling is off, my problem was vram maxes out which is killing my frames it is a big problem on 970s and happens in other games.
My psu is 450w.

[Vulpeculus]

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

My psu is 450w.

Right. :/
2070 wattage is something like only 10-20W more than 970, but indeed 450W may be a bit short.

Nevertheless, I'm amazed to see that your system can run with a 450W PSU. I always say people overestimate the required PSU (that's why I cared to answer), but it turns out even I was overestimating it myself.

[KorinFlakes]

Originally posted by swa🙏achu:

Originally posted by Donut Grunt:

You're going to need a better CPU as well. Boneworks is CPU heavy and they recommend i7's because of the ammount of cores.

Get like a 2070 S for GPU and a i7 9900k/or Ryzen 7 3700x. But that would require a new motherboard.

But if you can only afford one, get a new GPU for now

Nearly 1000$ upgrade 😔😔

Ignore him, I have an i7 4770 and a GTX 1060 and the game runs perfectly for me.

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The Cpu is most likely too weak the physics need alot of power to run