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This is exactly where I'm at, my 970 handles everything I've needed so far. I'm interested in exploring VR dev, but am waiting until I have a new GPU, and can'

This is exactly where I'm at, my 970 handles everything I've needed so far. I'm interested in exploring VR dev, but am waiting until I have a new GPU, and can't really justify the upgrade yet. I've had my eye on the recent Ryzen cards, but I'm not sold on the reliability yet compared to Nvidia. I do like that AMD at least seems to be trying to play nice with the open source drivers and kernel infrastructure, but in practice Nvidia still seems to be the most straightforward solution, so... meh.

stcredzero 8y ago
I'm interested in exploring VR dev, but am waiting until I have a new GPU Don't wait. Iron out the gameplay with "low" graphics. 970 is just fine for that.
- holtalanm 8y ago
  can a 970 even support VR hardware? I was under the impression it could not.
  - stcredzero 8y ago
    The GTX 970 used to be the minimum card for blue team. I've played all of my VR gaming on one. Perhaps gains in resolution on new equipment have left them behind, but they should still be fine for a 1st generation HTC Vive. I've also run VR games using Windows Mixed Reality headsets, which have a higher resolution than the 1st generation HTC Vive, and it also seemed just fine. Also, at the time, though it was several months back, the Steam VR test program still gave my GTX 970 a pass. YouTuber Blunty once ran his 1st gen VR headset off of a GTX1050Ti laptop and said it was just fine "in a pinch." (I wouldn't recommend it for the very VR sickness prone, however.)
  - jsgo 8y ago
    it was the minimum recommended by Oculus and may've been for Vive too, can't remember, at one point. But I think what they're saying is you can conceivably work on VR/AR without having world beating hardware (it really only becomes an issue when you want to test, I would imagine). But maybe after getting some VR development under one's belt with a 970, that may give incentive to do the GPU upgrade if things progress accordingly.
  - 0xabe 8y ago
    There’s also the option of running a pair of 970s in SLI. That was my solution a couple years ago when it beat the 980Ti in both performance and price.
    - wlesieutre 8y ago
      Yeah but then you're working on VR development with SLIed cards just as Nvidia's newer hardware all drops that capability. I've heard SLI can be a headache to support in rendering, so that might be more trouble than it's worth to develop for.

stcredzero 8y ago

I'm interested in exploring VR dev, but am waiting until I have a new GPU Don't wait. Iron out the gameplay with "low" graphics. 970 is just fine for that.

holtalanm 8y ago
can a 970 even support VR hardware? I was under the impression it could not.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  The GTX 970 used to be the minimum card for blue team. I've played all of my VR gaming on one. Perhaps gains in resolution on new equipment have left them behind, but they should still be fine for a 1st generation HTC Vive. I've also run VR games using Windows Mixed Reality headsets, which have a higher resolution than the 1st generation HTC Vive, and it also seemed just fine. Also, at the time, though it was several months back, the Steam VR test program still gave my GTX 970 a pass. YouTuber Blunty once ran his 1st gen VR headset off of a GTX1050Ti laptop and said it was just fine "in a pinch." (I wouldn't recommend it for the very VR sickness prone, however.)
- jsgo 8y ago
  it was the minimum recommended by Oculus and may've been for Vive too, can't remember, at one point. But I think what they're saying is you can conceivably work on VR/AR without having world beating hardware (it really only becomes an issue when you want to test, I would imagine). But maybe after getting some VR development under one's belt with a 970, that may give incentive to do the GPU upgrade if things progress accordingly.
- 0xabe 8y ago
  There’s also the option of running a pair of 970s in SLI. That was my solution a couple years ago when it beat the 980Ti in both performance and price.
  - wlesieutre 8y ago
    Yeah but then you're working on VR development with SLIed cards just as Nvidia's newer hardware all drops that capability. I've heard SLI can be a headache to support in rendering, so that might be more trouble than it's worth to develop for.