I tried the Pimax 8K on a GTX 1050 Ti with Brainwarp! Benchmark included

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Hi guys,

today my used GTX 1050 Ti card for 60$ arrived and I promised you guys that I will try it with my Pimax 8K.

So my test-setup was a i9 9900K (I dont have other CPU), GTX 1050 Ti, Windows 10, 32 GB, PiTool 109.

I activated Brainwarp, set the FOV to normal and the refresh rate to 64Hz, so that I only need 32 FPS for Brainwarp to kick in. PiTool was on 1.0 and SteamVR on 30%.

I tried several games like Beat Saber, Onward, Contractors, Shadow Legend or Elite Dangerous.

I set every game on lowest settings and I was surprised that nearly every game works really good with this setup! So as long as I’m over 32 FPS the Brainwarp kicked it to 64 FPS again! Only game that didnt really work was Elite Dangerous, because even on “VR Low” settings it was always under 32 FPS, so Brainwarp had no chance.
However if you set FOV to small and SteamVR on 20% you can get a chance to run Elite Dangerous smooth, but it wont look good.

All in all I can say that its totally possible to run the Pimax 8K on a GTX 1050 Ti. Of course it doesnt nearly look as good as on a 2080 Ti, but its playable and still fun because of the big FOV of the Pimax.

I also recorded some benchmarks in my video (will perhaps need some minutes to render for YouTube), if you want to check it out:

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This is wonderful to hear, this is really bringing truth to what I like to summarize the pimax as; a headset that really lets you take advantage of the power of your graphics card, the quality of your experience is based on your ability to tweak settings, and based on the power of your graphics card.

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Yes thats right! To be honest I didnt really expect this to work, but it does!

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Tested pimax 5k+ at my notebook. 1050Ti, 12Gb ddr4, 7700hq. Pitool ss 100%, steam ss 25%, brainwarp 64Hz, normal FOV, smart smoothing active. Some work with ingame graphic options made playable War Thunder, Subnautica, Dirt Rally.
P.S. Notebook thought that he is Apache and tryd to fly away :grin:

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Have your tried putting it in a back pack so you can walk around room scale?

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I don’t have base stations yet for such experiment. Only 3DOF