CPU Performance In VR: 11 Games Benchmarked

[Sakkura]

You did Pcars wrong. Delete your gtx config file. It will make one for VR. AA is garbage so get rid of as much as you can. Use super sampling instead. Also turn off Interleve reprojection. Or whatever the Occulus version of that is. If you can't quite make 90 fps it drops to 45fps. You just can't run Pcars any where near max settings but if you do it right it looks amazing and is very playable.

ASW is superior to the reprojection options available through SteamVR, and is well worth having enabled. It makes 45 FPS feel almost indistinguishable from 90 FPS.

 

[blackbit75]

I don't the right of ask for it, since I'm poor. But, what about an A8-7600 ... ok, just put a pair more of CPU's.

 

[alextheblue]

I wanted to see i5 CPU's
7600 or 6600 class would have been nice to see the benchmarks.

i5, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 3. The high core counts are wasted on these games, they range from lightly threaded to extremely lightly threaded. Heck you could probably disable HT on the i7 without adverse effects. Looking at CPU utilization I can't help but feel that some of these were slapped together hastily and shoved out the door.

 

[cangelini]

I wonder why every test have dropped frames? Have you done any investigation into what causes them? Even Gunjack with more than 400 fps have dropped frames? There must be a problem with a Windows process halting everything else? Maybe the same problem that have plaqued Win10 since the Creators Update with lag spikes in all games?

Also I think it would maybe have been more appropiate if you had disabled ASW in these tests?

I am interested in this as well. Engineers at Nvidia are working on a more definitive answer. In the meantime, though, it is being suggested that a lot of it has to do with Oculus' runtime and the various system processes that might interrupt other processes, causing dropped frames when there is no clear bottleneck. More info as I can pin it down!

 

[Specter0420]

Can you add both versions of DCS World (1.5 and 2) to future VR testing? It is a full scale sim and is very taxing. Maybe do a VR flight sim article? I currently VR on an i7-920 OCed to 3.7 Ghz with a GTX-1060 6GB. In DCS world it is "playable" enough for me to hold off for another generation or two. Many popular AAA flight sims are VR capable these days.