Some titles have a few settings, but I agree. There really should be the ability to fine-tune some things better. Hell, I don't even care about performance sometimes, but the antialiasing in Legendary Tales (a game I want to love) is so shit that it makes everything kinda blurry. It's the only title that gives me headaches, so the ability to turn stuff on and off would be nice...

The vram was set to max, but I think this was mostly due to bad windows drivers. I'll have to revisit it with the index on linux when I get a chance.

I feel like the latency would be vomit inducing but it might be worth giving a shot thanks!

Oculus Software tells you that "your pc is not good enough for VR" and just does not let you use Oculus Link in any way.

I seen, wild

It'd just be nice to run wireless VR on linux, and avoiding Mr Zucc's prying eyes.

@@CoilWhine shit it will worth the $1500 that the shitty quest pro asks. run pcvr games through proton like the deck with RDNA 3 architecture

We have a dock now with displayport, definitely considering retrying it with the index

I haven't touched ALVR since I just daily drive with VD on my desktop. The official dock has displayport, so I can try the index out on it and see if there's a difference. It's very likely just a windows driver issue.

I think it was mostly the windows drivers. New deck has a DP port so the index on linux is possible.

We did use virtual desktop, though I bet it's better now with updated drivers!

Yeah, it's one of those things that I just HAD to try. I really think the windows drivers were a big issue, hopefully they get some love

I got to daily the steamdeck for a few weeks (borrowed it from Gab, the other host) and it's a seriously impressive device. People just wanted to see it do VR because the quest 2 can do it on a phone cpu. I think this could be better if I run it on SteamOS with the index (we didn't have a displayport dock at the time), as the windows drivers are a bit....awful.

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You know what? Fair point, i dont blame you.

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Not a chance it runs good lol

Yeah, and it'll probably get better with driver updates and/or using a non-quest headset in linux. Just used what was on hand at the time!

Oh yeah, it plays native on the quest 2 lol

@@CoilWhine okay, thanks

My goofy ahh igpu laptop can run it so you should be fine

It's what the average person would use. There's actually a decent community of windows users for the deck with good performance. The doc we have had a DP out though so we'll probably try this again with the index on linux

Yeah, it was a ton of fun though. Gab and I are pretty different heights, so it'll happen when we swap around.

@@CoilWhine I'd say the only reason someone would play pcvr on the steam deck is if they were poor, underage or couldn't get a job that'll give em enough, other than that I don't really see why someone would do this lol

@@CoilWhine and I thankfully don't get sick easily like not even st 10 fps, I've used like plutosphere befor Wich is a cloud gaming service, it dies everytime I try to load a game lol so tbh I think this would be a perfectly fine experience for me!

@@CoilWhine one thing I'm wondering is..can the steam deck run GTA I know it has a desktop option..so is it possible like not does it run good but is it fucking possible lmao

You can play beat saber directly on a quest 2 lmao

@@CoilWhine it also runs on ARM and specialised software

How is arm relevant though?

@@CoilWhine there is a core difference between how arm and x86 devices function, their thermal output and how they run the code that's made for them etc. ARM is much more efficient than x86 obviously

ARM is better for power consumption, yes, but the quest 2 is running basically an 865 at what is likely a 5w TDP. The real bottleneck here wasn't the CPU anyways, it's the igpu and likely the windows drivers

We ran beat saber in the video. It was _ok_ , but the native quest version was smoother. I imagine pistol whip is similar. I've never played thrill of the fight.

We wanted to try with the index but it doesn't have a DP port unfortunately

absolutely not lol

@@CoilWhine thank you for the response

I can't even play VR chat at all without getting sick!

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I doubt it would have really helped, this was simply toying around with something we knew would be a bad time