Ron Attwood Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Short question. Does it work? I was introduced to VR at Duxford Flying Legends and it blew my socks off! Simon Pearson, a head honcho at ED, who you all know, took my hand and walked me out of a Spitfire cockpit onto the wing. Jesus! It really did feel 3000' up. So when I got home I downloaded the Oculus tool and everything was go except the OS. It demanded W10. Frankly I'm not at all keen on up(?)grading to W10. Will W7 64bit work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB4Tazman Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I use Oculus Rift with Win7 64 bit just fine, though, some apps/games do require Win10 to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 That's what I wanted to hear. :) I don't do 'Apps' or other games so that won't concern me. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dburne Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 You won't get the benefit of ASW with Windows 7, but not that big a deal - I actually prefer to fly without it enabled as I get a better experience. Also the new Rift Core 2.0 and Dash will not work with Windows 7, that is what needs Windows 10. At least to get all the features from what I understand. https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-rift-core/ You can still run the older legacy Oculus Home 1.0 - but who knows if/when Oculus might drop support for it. Don B EVGA Z390 Dark MB | i9 9900k CPU @ 5.1 GHz | Gigabyte 4090 OC | 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz CL16 | Corsair H150i Pro Cooler |Virpil CM3 Stick w/ Alpha Prime Grip 200mm ext| Virpil CM3 Throttle | VPC Rotor TCS Base w/ Alpha-L Grip| Point Control V2|Varjo Aero| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Just when I could see the bottom of this pool you've just muddied the water! Rift Core 2.0? I looked at the link and couldn't decide if that's something I'd need for flight simming. As for the Dash, isn't that a lower spec version? All I want to do is to fly in DCS and P3D using my normal flight controllers. Can I go buy an Oculus Rift, plug it in, faff with settings and fly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dburne Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Just when I could see the bottom of this pool you've just muddied the water! Rift Core 2.0? I looked at the link and couldn't decide if that's something I'd need for flight simming. As for the Dash, isn't that a lower spec version? All I want to do is to fly in DCS and P3D using my normal flight controllers. Can I go buy an Oculus Rift, plug it in, faff with settings and fly? Yes of course you can. Oculus Home is the environment you will open into when you put on a Rift Headset. Either the classic Oculus Home, or the new Oculus Home 2 which uses the RiftCore 2.0 and Dash. All related to the Oculus Home environment. IF you wanted all the features in your Oculus Home 2 environment experience to work properly, you would need Oculus Home 2 and Windows 10. You will be able to fly just fine either way, except no ASW with Windows 7. Don B EVGA Z390 Dark MB | i9 9900k CPU @ 5.1 GHz | Gigabyte 4090 OC | 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz CL16 | Corsair H150i Pro Cooler |Virpil CM3 Stick w/ Alpha Prime Grip 200mm ext| Virpil CM3 Throttle | VPC Rotor TCS Base w/ Alpha-L Grip| Point Control V2|Varjo Aero| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molevitch Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Hi Ron, What graphics card are you running with W7? Rift needs a powerful card to run well, at least a GTX 970. M SCAN Intel Core i9 10850K "Comet Lake", 32GB DDR4, 10GB NVIDIA RTX 3080, HP Reverb G2. Custom Mi-24 pit with magnetic braked cyclic and collective. See it here: Molevitch Mi-24 Pit. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] www.blacksharkden.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 1070 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDuke6ixx Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Run win10, it way better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I tried Windows 10 during three months ... didnt like it, couldnt get it to perform smoothly at all times, so I went back to Windows 8.1 and got smooth performance again. A couple of months ago I purchased a second hand Rift and found that it works fine on W8.1 and DCS ... but I dont play other games, only DCS. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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