From the reviews it is now obvious that most VR games will not work with a GTX1070 such as the one I have. Unfortunately upgrading is not an option at the moment, and only playing Job Simulator and Assetto Corsa is probably going to be a bit boring in the long run.
I was hoping to play some older, less demanding games in Vorpx, but that doesn’t seem to be supported at the moment. Another option would be extended mode using Tridef or some other method, but from this comment it seems that this will not be possible either:
So then what are my options, if I want to use the Pimax 8K to play games on a GTX1070 with a decent framerate?
Thanks, the reason I posted the question was the above video. Which is a bit dissapointing, since Pimax last year posted videos of the 8K running fine with a GTX1070 ( DCS in Pimax 8K with GTX1070 - YouTube )
I went and bought a PC with a GTX1070 and backed the Pimax 8K after seeing that video. Of course things don’t always go to plan, and the video doesn’t contain any promises that DCS or most other games would run fine on the GTX1070. But it is a bit of a disappointment, and I am now trying to figure out what I am actually going to do with the 8K.
Just stay with your system specs, when the 8K will be on retail (most probably early 2019) and video card prices start to go down after Christmas, you will find better prices on most on the market video cards…
In my view there are three options you could make as 2080 TI is far too expensive.
Immediate option:
If funds are tight, you can search online on a popular auction site for a used 1080 TI blower card - usually cheapest form of 1080 TI’s. E.g
a an Asus 1080 TI Turbo.
Why buy used 1080 TI now? Well, once the kickback from the overpriced and overstocked 2080 starts, (as it will once more costly custom AIB 2080 TI are online), the 1080 TI will be the perfect sweet spot performance in terms of 2nd hand value, and then used 1080 TI prices will creep up!
2-3 month option:
Although not gauranteed, wait short term to see if RTX 2080 sells poorly (in general) and buy a reduced price new card that most don’t want due to obvious poor price/performance, or again see how used 2080 prices are then affected by this.
Longer term option:
Wait 6 months+ for new 2080 prices to drop and then buy a used 2080, to save further. Prices will drop but it takes time.
Cinebench and rendering software benchmarks have nothing to do with real system performance or gaming, it’s related exclusively to floating point Cpu performance.
Assuming you have desktop you should get ~15% better results (10% for desktop and 5% for not recording) compared to the videos.
Maybe you are not as spoiled as sweviver with his top setup and can accept lower quality picture (bit undersampling) to get some more FPS.
Then there is the small FOV which should give bit extra.
It will be compromises but maybe not completely hopeless. Ultimate solution would be brainwrap. If that gets implemented and actually works well, then even 1070 should work with many titles (as you only need 45fps to get 90hz perception). This is a big IF though, but it was part of the kickstarter goal and with it in mind the kickstarter min. spec are Ok.
