You aren't ready for VR - SteamVR Performance Test
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,329 words · ~6 min read
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so valve has released the steam Hardware survey upon the world they've given a
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way for us Hardware enthusiasts to weigh and measure ourselves to see if we are
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actually worthy of VR and it's left some
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of us kind of wanting how it runs this
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test is it does the portal VR demo where it just expands a little machine and you
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have to try to look at it and whatnot but just has a static camera that moves
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around when it's done it will serve you your results whether or not you are
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ready capable or not
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link in the video description so yeah it's spoiler alert
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not that good looking only 99.4% of
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people have actually made it through if you look down below that it
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will tell you the results the results will tell you how to upgrade your system
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in order to become ready if you expand lower than that it will tell you how
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many frames were encoded how many frames were above 90 FPS which is extremely
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important considering VR screens are usually 90 HZ plus we'll tell you how
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many frames were dropped by your CPU and the average Fidelity of the scene or the
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graphical quality that it was able to accomplish while running through the
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entire scene so yeah 99.4% of people
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slightly lower than that already based on the steam Hardware survey so get
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wrecked I guess we've been saying this for a long time online of te tips the
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hardware Community is not actually up there enough for VR people complain
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about the cost of headsets but their computers aren't even ready but let's
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take a sec and actually analyze where those numbers came from the steam
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Hardware survey is it up to
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Snuff the steam Hardware survey is a
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simple but very powerful tool you submit
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your data to valve they total it put percentages of how many people are
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running what on it and make it publicly available great tons of people use it we
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at lineus Media Group use it we use it to quantify how many people are going
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for what card what chip what brand whatever and then discuss that in videos
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or the W show from time to time it's a pretty interesting concept and I we will
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continue to do that in the future another group of people that uses it
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game devs they use it to Target what Hardware they need to prepare game for
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is it a very high-end very high fidelity
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game well they probably need to Target whatever the highest percentage of
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high-end cards are that kind of makes sense it's a relatively simple concept
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but does it make sense for VR does the hardware survey actually apply properly
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to VR I would argue no because there's too much garbage data what is garbage
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data well I for one fall in this category I have probably about seven
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computers in the steam Hardware survey but probably one of them
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actually exactly one of them is only intended for VR none of the other ones
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will ever probably do anything in the VR space they're there to play stuff like
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papers pleas or Minecraft or counter- striker Team Fortress and those rigs
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should not be in a percentage system in order to figure out the amount of
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computers ready for VR I understand that's not what the steam Hardware survey is but that's where the 9.4% came
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from and people have been saying for a long time including me that the
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community isn't ready
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to get an accurate representation of the gaming community's Readiness for VR you
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need a lot of data to get a lot of this data you need a lot of people and you
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need a lot of Hardware I'm only one man so I don't fix that category but I do
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have a bunch of Hardware there's a problem there as well though I have a
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bunch of bleeding edge current generation Hardware I don't have the
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interesting bits like the I5 2500 in the
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GTX 680 which sold a bunch and might
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actually still be able to skim buy into that ready category that's interesting I
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want to figure out what is just going to be able to make it here we specialize on
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things like $30,000 computers and computers that fit into bombs they're
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fun but they don't really matter a ton
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in this data set I don't need to reaffirm that really expensive really
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overbuilt modern current generation gaming Hardware is able to run VR we get
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that it's the more interesting data that I'm looking
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for this is where you come in we need the community to come together and make
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a massively collaborative benchmarking project so we can see where the
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Enthusiast Community is sitting in terms of VR performance we can do this on the
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Forum the line of SE tips Community Forum jumper 118 has already done
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something similar with cinebench he has an awesome thread with over 500
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submissions of people cinebench scores that's super cool I've used those
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results in videos in the past before and I'm not looking to sell this data before
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anyone of the comments freaks out this is all publicly available stuff we're
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not selling it I just want to host online at se.com forum CU it's easy so
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yeah please submit your test results there we can see how our community is
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ready for VR because I'm pretty sure it's higher than 99.4% so don't worry if
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you have a low-end rig if you're running multiple cards whatever it happens to be
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if you're remotely interested in VR or high-end gaming at all submit your rig
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