Virtual Reality

1999 readers

38 users here now

Virtual Reality - Quest, PCVR, PSVR2, Pico, Mixed Reality, ect. Open discussion of all VR platforms, games, and apps.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

miketunes

Semi

fer0n

So, Are We Just Agreed That The Hardware Requirements Popup on HL: Alyx Is Just BS Now? (self.virtualreality)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dual_sport_dork to c/virtualreality

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is a broadly substance free post. But I assume most VR headset owners have at this point at least tried Half Life: Alyx.

It therefore follows that most of you are familiar with this dumb popup you get the first time you run it:

Fair enough, on my old PC I only had a Sandy Bridge i7 2600K and a GTX1080Ti. Maybe I was below the recommended requirement even though I played through the entire campaign just fine.

Well, I just built a new PC containing a Ryzen 9 9900X, a Radeon RX 7900 XTX with 24 gigs of VRAM, and 64 gigs of system RAM.

And I still get that dumb "low memory" popup.

This game came out four years ago, Valve. What the hell did you expect people to play it on? A Cray EX254?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Blue_Morpho 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's weird. I started Alyx today for the very first time on lower hardware than your current GPU and didn't get that message. I'm using a mini PC with a 6600m GPU (8 GB) and Quest2 VR goggles on Airlink.

I would guess it's bad programming where because vram didn't return say 8, 12, or 16, it shows the error.