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So, Are We Just Agreed That The Hardware Requirements Popup on HL: Alyx Is Just BS Now?
(self.virtualreality)
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?
I'm using a Reverb G2 connected directly (which admittedly is the only way to use that headset).
I dunno. I can hop into the SteamVR overlay during gameplay just fine, or even pop up the dumb WMR menu and pin virtual desktop windows all over my game environment without issue. I have no idea what the bee in its bonnet is about. Based on my limited it experience it seems to show that warning to everybody regardless of all other external factors. There are people online with even more powerful rigs than mine complaining about it.
I wasn't really fishing for a solution. I just find it deeply silly, and kind of amusing.
Yeah, the error seems totally busted. Or it was a broad disclaimer posing as an error.
Also, I’m sure the overlay works fine for you. But to test what I was explaining properly, you need to overload your vram, and then open it.
Can you explain what you mean by connected directly?
Not... Wireless?
Ahhh gotcha.. didn't put two n two together with the Quest.. duh
I see this popup all the time since getting my 3080 and Reverb G2. I don't recall it ever causing issues though.
I also don't recall seeing it on my 1080 and vive pro (wireless) which is what I used to play the game the first time.