Has anyone here used the new 10 series laptops with VR?

Hello, I had to RMA my P650/NP8153 due to poor performance in VR. That particular model had a BIOS bug that has since been fixed, but I can't say for sure that it's what was causing my problems. I was using The Lab - Robot Repair as my benchmark and I would consistently get frame drops that caused stuttering and hitching in the Vive. I tried Oculus as well, but asynchronous timewarp is so good that it was pretty difficult to notice any problems.

Anyway, I'm looking for verification from other Sager/Clevo owners (10 series cards) that SteamVR/Vive is working well before I order. I'm particularly interested in the P775/P650 models, but would appreciate anyone chiming in on their VR performance regardless. I've posted a few times in the official owner's lounge for the p650 but it would appear I'm the only user there using VR?!

Thanks in advance!

 

Yeah I'm a P650 owner. I can afford VR if I wanted it, but I just don't think it's worth the cost yet. Its a ton of money for something that only has a few truly fleshed out games. To top that off PSVR actually has some killer exclusives which turns me off from VR even more. The Battlefront VR and the new Ace Combat VR are two of the experiences I'd want most and neither is on PC... (Same with Gran Turismo)

Anyway, I've been in the P650 thread since page 1, pretty sure your the only VR user sorry.

Did you ever look at your resource monitor to see what the problem was? CPU and GPU clockspeeds and usage + ram/drive usage etc?

 

I did check the resource monitor and latencymon. Occasionally I could avoid the ACPI.sys but it didn't improve performance much in SteamVR. I wasn't able to identify what exactly was causing the bottleneck. It's entirely possible it was just something that hadn't been addressed yet in Nvidia drivers. Earlier this summer desktop users with 10 series cards were having the same issue.

 

I have the Clevo P750DM2 (Sager NP9152-S) with an Nvidia 1070,and I've used my Oculus Rift on it with no problem. I bought the Rift to use on my desktop, but it's taking me a little bit longer to finish the build than I anticipated, so I tried it out on my new laptop.

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We have been attending 2-3 VR meetups a week for the past couple of months and use VR (mainly Vive) heavily in our office, mainly because of our XMG Walker VR backpack. That runs a GTX 1070 and has no problems whatsoever with any games in Steam VR. When we exhibit the Walker we usually have an XMG U717 (P775) with 1080 just because it's the best single GPU laptop we have available. We don't tend to use the Vive with P650 models that much for that reason, but I know that lots of our customers and partners in the VR community use them and we often lend them out to developers when we arrange VR meetups.

Definitely use the latest Nvidia drivers though, the most recent have some improvements and we have been advising our partners to update for this reason. I don't have the exact deiver versions to hand as, ironically, I'm out the office at a VR event this week!

Bottom line is that 1070 is more than good enough at the moment, though as with anything 1080 would give you more power.