Is Your Pc Powerful Enough For Steamvr This Test Will Tell You

Virtual Reality is now just months away from being in the hands of consumers. HTC’s SteamVR supported Vive system is set to cost eager early adopters a staggering £689 in April, but is your PC up to the task?

To save you reading over recommended specs, Valve has released a handy SteamVR Performance Test tool, which does pretty much what it says on the tin.

“The SteamVR Performance Test measures your system’s rendering power using a 2-minute sequence from Valves Aperture Robot Repair VR demo,” reads the blurb. “After collecting the data it determines whether your system is capable of running VR content at 90fps and whether VR content can tune the visual fidelity up to the recommended level.

“For machines that are not VR Ready the tool can help determine whether capabilities are bound by Graphics Card, CPU, or both.”

If you’re in the latter category then you’re going to want to make an upgrade before your VR gear arrives.

The recommended specs for Vive and SteamVR are:

GPU: – NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 equivalent or greater

CPU: – Intel® i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater

RAM: – 4GB+

Video Output: – HDMI 1.4 or DisplayPort 1.2 or newer

USB Port: – 1x USB 2.0 or greater port

Operating System: – Windows 7 SP1 or newer

While the hardware specs appear pretty similar to those needed by Oculus, the requirement for only one USB 2.0 port sticks out as a major difference – Oculus asks for 3×3.0 ports.

Source: Steam