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Connecting Oculus Rift to Asus ROG GL752VW-DH71-HID16

stain35
Level 7
I am not a gaming techy in any way and have just bought an Oculus Rift which I am attempting to use with my GL752VW.

I have no extra external cards and currently, simply connect the Oculus Rift/sensors to a USB3.0 port adapter into the one 3.0 port and the HDMI port.

When attempting to use the prebought Game, Quill, I get a failure with the text "Can't attach HMD to window" . Also, the Oculus Rift software itself states I do not meet minimum requirements currently. SteamVR also fails to work currently.

There are suggestions online that connections need to be made to a graphics card other than the inbuilt card.

Given the standard spec of the ROG GL752VW-DH71, can anyone tell me exactly what I need to purchase and set up to get the Rift working with the ASUS please? I realise there will be several options but I am a beginner at this so simplest solution with the manufacturers/models would be best for me.

Cheers
Mark
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Bran187
Level 9
Your laptop has a GTX 960m in it correct?

The 960m is well below the minimum spec for the Rift which is a desktop GTX 970. Keep in mind that the GTX 960m (laptop part) is roughly the equivalent of a desktop GTX 660/GTX 750ti. That is pretty far below spec for the rift. So while you can probably force it to work, the experience in a lot of titles probably wont be great.

Also, don't connect the rift and all of its sensors to a USB hub (which it sounds like you are doing). A lot of VR gear doesn't play nice with USB hubs.

According to Amazon, your laptop has two 3.0 ports, and one 2.0 port. Plug one sensor into each 3.0 port, and the HMD itself into the 2.0 port. And even if you only have one 3.0 port, plug one sensor into it, and the remaining sensor and HMD into the 2.0 ports.

The HMD will run off of a 2.0 port no problem (even though the Oculus website says otherwise), and the sensors will still work on 2.0 ports, they just run in 'low bandwidth mode' which reduces tracking quality.

So it's more important to get the sensors on 3.0 ports, than the HMD itself. And even one sensor on 3.0 and one one 2.0 is better than trying to cram everything onto a hub connected to a single port.

Hope that helps/makes sense. Like I say you are still way below spec, but hopefully this helps you get 'up and running' in some capacity.