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Hey, you do realize that the steam frame isn't going to have enough horsepower to run full pcvr vrchat on it's own right? You'll still be about to run the Android version, but that's just the quest version still.
Now if you plan to stream from your full gaming PC it'll be great, but realize that the frame itself is a little less powerful than a steamdeck which can barely handle full PC VRChat in desktop mode.
Don't get me wrong, day one purchase for me too.
Bruh, my PC designed for VR barely runs VRChat.
100% accurate.
ok so do you want me to get the steam frame or not
I just want you to understand what it can and can't do, if you buy it expecting to get a full pcvr experience out of it without streaming from a PC then you are going to be disappointed.
Are you sure? It's 3 times more powerful than the quest 3, and the quest 3 can do some cool stuff
The Valve reps said in some interview that the cannot even promise HL Alyx running natively on the Frame and that's their homegrown flagship VR title. You'd think Valve would design hardware tailored to do that.
ok so by your bloody metric, i just wasted a christmas (parents didn't get my anything so that i could get a bigger present next year on my birthday) so i can get a glorified vr version of a PlayStation portal. is this correct?
It's not my metric, I merely repeated what I remembered from one of the interviews and my astonishment from hearing what I heard.
If you "wasted christmas", that's your metric, not mine.
well thanks i guess
The steam frame, while seemingly really cool, just won't be able to handle the worst of pc vr chat because it's 100% guaranteed to be worse than a dedicated pc. Dedicated pcs already struggle with vr chat. It's because there's a million people with custom unoptimised player models everywhere.
VRChat has many many options to deal with that. My PC only has an RTX 2060 and it manages ok.
Well, we'll see if the steam frame can handle it. I imagine it won't.
I think it's more a question of, how will it look once the settings are knocked down enough for a smooth framerate.