Alyx

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Anyone with a Quest 3 playing, or played this?

Tony, the mate that lent me his Quest 2, is now buying a Quest 3 having borrowed mine for a week lol..

He's got a laptop, some Asus ROG thing, Ryzen 7 3k series thing and an 1660Ti MaxQ thing, I tried it with my Q3 last night and it works, but its damned noisy as the fans in the laptop ramp up pretty quickly, even when its laying on its side rather than normally, to aid airflow, guessing on long gaming sessions its not going to play nicely as it'll get chuffing hot, so he's maybe looking at building a semi decent rig to sit next to his TV (He likes to have the stuff on the screen so the rest of the family can see what he is doing and I've suggested HDMI to the TV rather than to his Chromecast as its trying to stream to that at the same time its playing the game and doing headset stuff on SteamVR.

The general specs for Alyx arent all that heavy, and the laptop will do it, but don't think its going to last long term, where a desktop might be more appropriate (He did say that both of his daughters machines I built a couple of years ago play it really well) so looking at what sort of specs I can get away with desktop wise.

Anyone running similar?

Also, I quite like the look af Aylx myself, my PC will play it no worries, but its still £50, anywhere cheaper to get it?
 
He's just been round to pick the laptop back up, he's going to see if he can get it to work on his Quest 2 until his 3 arrives, he's happy enough with how it runs, I'm just not sure how it'll cope running for hours on end...

From what I read, there is a modded BIOS for that particular laptop that gives the GPU 130w I think it was over its stock 60w, I cant image that would be happy though long term.
I would have ran something like Afterburner on it had it been mine and tried an undervolt on it but as its not mine, leaving it as was seemed the best option, I stuck some extra RAM in there and gave the insides a clean...


Are there any reasons that trigger Alyx being on sale, or is it a random thing?
 
I almost wish I had waited to get my Quest 3, could have had the 512Gb for the same price as the 128Gb one after the 3S dropped and they changed prices....
 
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