After testing my new 8K+ for a few days, here is my short review:
As a backer I have been using my 5k+ for a year now and I am quite satisfied with the headset. However, the still visible SDE still bothered me.
System: I7-9700k @4900Hz, GTX 1080 TI, 32 GB RAM, Pitool 255
So far I have tried Skyrim and DCS World.
Skyrim:
I used the same settings as with my 5k+ and was a little disappointed. The picture quality wasn’t really much better except the SDE was of course hardly visible. With the 5k+ I had to activate TAA in Skyrim because otherwise the flickering was very annoying. With the 8k+ I deactivated TAA and here the flickering was much less. Then I set SS in Pitool to 1.5 (SteamVR 80%) and PP off. The difference was like day and night: Super sharp picture without aliasing. Simply fantastic. I can hardly imagine that the 8Kx could be even better here. Also runs smoothly with 45 fps
But I have to evaluate the black values negatively. In dark caves the LCD glows grey. I even find it a bit worse than on the 5K+.
DCS World:
Yes DCS is a special case. Here you have to find a compromise between picture quality and playable FPS. I found the SDE in DCS on my 5K+ to be very annoying, and the aliasing is also very annoying. With the 8K+ the SDE is much better but still visible (in the sky or clouds) but I don’t find that annoying anymore. Unfortunately the flickering could not be fought successfully by increasing the resolution. Now I use 2x MSAA (ingame) and in the NVIDIA driver settings “Enhance Application Settings” “Transparency” to “2x Supersampling”. However, with these settings I can only reach 36 fps. I definitely need a RTX 3080!. If someone found good settings here I would be glad about a comment.
Here I can imagine that the 8Kx brings a significant improvement in DCS compared to the 8K+.
In summary, I am very satisfied with the 8K+. So far I have not found any dead pixels or other errors. It’s a great headset for mainstream games like Skyrim or Fallout but for Sims like DCS or PC2 the 8KX could be the better choice