wanderingprostheyltite
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I thought I'd make this thread for those interested in the Rift, and what with pre-orders beginning on Wednesday at 8 am PST I'm sure there's a few people on the fence on whether to buy in, and not just on price. Namely, can their systems handle it, an all too often asked question over at r/oculus.
Yesterday a post on reddit made mention that the Firestrike 1.1 demo included with 3DMark provides an Oculus approved benchmark for whether your PC meets the demands of the Rift. You can get a free demo of the program on Steam that includes Firestrike here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/223850/
Palmer clarified a score over 9,000 on this benchmark should be a good indication whether your PC will be able to drive all experiences at the required 90 fps for the Rift, despite a score of 9271 being the number given by 3DMark. Note that these are only referring to those apps available through Oculus Home, their digital distribution platform. Games, demos, and experiences released outside of this obviously do not have this restriction and could potentially require higher than the system requirements laid out by Oculus themselves, which are as follows:
Hopefully this has been helpful for those wary about whether their system can handle the requirements, its certainly nice to have some numbers to allay any concerns.
Also, here is what the bench results screen looks like, it should open a browser page to show your score once complete but it may be different for demo vs full version:
Yesterday a post on reddit made mention that the Firestrike 1.1 demo included with 3DMark provides an Oculus approved benchmark for whether your PC meets the demands of the Rift. You can get a free demo of the program on Steam that includes Firestrike here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/223850/
Palmer clarified a score over 9,000 on this benchmark should be a good indication whether your PC will be able to drive all experiences at the required 90 fps for the Rift, despite a score of 9271 being the number given by 3DMark. Note that these are only referring to those apps available through Oculus Home, their digital distribution platform. Games, demos, and experiences released outside of this obviously do not have this restriction and could potentially require higher than the system requirements laid out by Oculus themselves, which are as follows:
Hopefully this has been helpful for those wary about whether their system can handle the requirements, its certainly nice to have some numbers to allay any concerns.
Also, here is what the bench results screen looks like, it should open a browser page to show your score once complete but it may be different for demo vs full version:
