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    VR Gaming on dual 980m ?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by 66bruno66, Jan 7, 2019.

  1. 66bruno66

    66bruno66 Newbie

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    Hi guys i have a p375sm (i7) with 980 m in SLI ,does anyone tried to run vr on a notebook with same specs ?
    if yes, it was good enough to justfy the investment on a htc vive or rift ?

    Thx
     
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    Lumlx Notebook Consultant

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    VR doesn't work with SLI.
     
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    Lumlx Notebook Consultant

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    Those are few titles. And you can find information on reddit that SLI even degrades performance on "supported" games.
     
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    SLI/MultiGPU isn't natively supported by most engines for VR.

    The next issue is, implementing VRWorks SLI support is also a pain as it is often a few revisions behind the relevant Engine (e.g. For UE4, if you want to use VRWorks features you must build against an older version of the engine, thus missing out on newer features).

    I suspect the VRWorks api will languish due to this fact and I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia and others are simply focusing their efforts elsewhere until multi-GPU is natively handled at the DX12/Vulkan level.
     
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    If you clock up the primary 980M it should do ok.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 7, 2019
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