PC Aficionado: "The Fallout 4 VR release has not gone smooth, with many complaining of blurriness/low resolution. This is due to a bug that linked the game resolution to your desktop resolution. Many fixes have floated around mostly relying on you to upscale your desktop resolution. However, Bethesda have acted very quickly and released a beta fix."
BY JOHN SANTINA: So, you just got a new VR headset and want to know the best games to get you started? Good news – we’ve got you covered! Regardless of which virtual headset you own, there will be something for you in this list of great VR releases which should be enough to start your virtual reality game collection.
This is PC VR listings here.
PSVR also has:
Batman Arkham VR
Astrobot Rescue Mission
Blood and Truth
Until Dawn Rush of Blood
RE7 VR
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The Humble Store is running a sale on over 50 VR games for the next week. Among the games on sale are Arizona Sunshine, Doom VFR, Fallout 4 VR, and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, all of which are 50% off.
John Santina writes:
"Today, I requested my first ever (and hopefully last) Steam refund. I’ve bought hundreds of games on Steam – some good, some not so good – but have never felt the inclination to toss in the towel within 2-hours of gameplay. For context, I was able to overlook everything wrong with The Division at launch and actually played the darn thing – if you could survive that, you can survive almost anything."
It seems that the authors cpu is the bottleneck here with it being in the lower end towards the minimum required specs despite having a high end gpu.
He then goes on to write that he played skyrim just fine which needs a less powerful rig to run but still.
Basically cpu is not up to snuff to run fallout 4 vr above low settings despite having a capable gpu.
I completely agree. Double the draw calls means double the CPU costs, unless they using instancing, etc..
His CPU is NOT up to running that game on high settings. I doubt Fallout 4 VR was written in DX12 -- if he wants to complain about what the devs did wrong, that should be his focus. His 3.5 GHz Haswell isn't going to cut it, unless the devs went to the trouble of multithreading the rendering, and chopping drawcall costs, via DX12.
The trouble with rewriting the whole rendering engine of a AAA game, to be CPU-friendly enough to hit 90 fps in VR, is that it costs a ton of money/time, and no VR port is going to spend more than they're going to make.
You are right about the CPU. I initially played Fallout 4 VR with a 5930k and a 1080 Ti and it didn't run well. Now with a 9900k and 2080 Ti it runs great. I believe it has more to do with the CPU than the GPU.
VR games are actually CPU bound, typically. Pushing a newer open-world game to high settings, in VR, is just a bad idea. As soon as you drop below 90 fps, you're gonna get ill.
If it's an open world game, and if the game isn't written in DX12 or Vulkan, where the CPU cost can be minimized, or the game isn't an older title that expected less from the CPU, you shouldn't VR, IMO.
Win10 Minecraft (not the crappy Java mod, where you have to chop the draw distance to something pathetic to hit 90 fps) is probably the best open world VR experience in existence, and there are plenty of people who suffer from motion sickness with it, as well -- probably because they think they can play Minecraft at super draw distance (or worse, without the modified VR movement settings), even though it's VR, not realizing that Minecraft is a DX11 game, and pushing the draw distance too far is just gonna make you sick.
I loved it! Tied with resident evil 7 for favorite vr game. If you can run it and love fallout, get it!
Any free roaming VR game makes me feel ill... That's why I eat a bunch of ginger before I playing (see Mythbusters about this).
Ginger helps with motion sickness? Do you just eat raw ginger or how do you prepare it?
I eat mine pickled, but that's because I live in Japan and grab several packs of them when I buy sushi at grocery stores.
I believe Mythbusters said that they had it as a tea.
I wonder if they will make a PSVR version, I mean because Fallout 4 wasn't visually impressive, and they were made Skyrim for PSVR.
Also, I wonder why they did VR in PC when PSVR is the lead selling platform..