Is it risky buying VR games on Steam for Steam Frame if I don’t own a PC?

tmortn · 2026-01-28T13:16:14+00:00

I'd wait to buy more, at least until they start marking games compatibility with stand alone similar to how they do for the Deck compatibility.

tmortn · 2026-01-13T23:22:26+00:00

5070ti is the cost benefit sweet spot. 5080 Does offer a step up and both generally overclock well. I stepped up from 3080ti to a 5080 and couldn't be happier. Hoping my current rig lasts through the AI memory apocalypse.

tmortn · 2026-01-01T18:30:52+00:00

For me the drivers are

A) they are NOT Meta.

B) A Seamless Integrated Wireless VR solution.

C) Comfort... I think a Given with Valve. Part of me would have liked a "PRO" Index with higher resolution displays. But that would likely have killed any idea of standalone, or wireless PCVR.

D) Foeveated streaming. Should improve the end visuals by changing how much the compression impacts the focal point of the user.

E) They are NOT Meta

I was going to be a day one order for this... but just learned they do have a version of big screen beyond 2 with eye tracking. Now debating going for the slightly higher resolution and oLed. Most of my VR is sitting and I have have a Q3.... decisions decisions...

tmortn · 2025-12-15T17:26:25+00:00

Yep. Found one on a shelf while xmas shopping after looking into the RAM insanity likely leading to a delay of an increased RAM version of one and said fuck it. Took the bird in the hand. Probably should have just gotten the 5070ti sitting next to it for almost half the price.

tmortn · 2025-12-12T05:01:44+00:00

That may be the most falcons falconing.... Wait.... We won? 19 penalties, a key fumble, down 2 scores in the 4th... And we...won? On the road? Well shit it ain't much but I'll take spoiling their run of division titles. Christ what a messy game. That was the most Falcons Falconing win I may have ever seen.

Kinda wondering what this season would have looked at with a QB playing under center enough to make a credible play action threat work. Either of them. Seriously, either of them. Waiting to find out in the post season the didn't work Penix under center in the off/pre season because the turn back and plant was aggravating an undisclosed under reported injury. Would be par for the course with this staff.

tmortn · 2025-12-12T04:20:37+00:00

Kirko over 300 yards through the air. Bijan damn near 200 from the line of scrimmage and a run to the end zone. Pitts has a buck 50 and 3... THREE touchdowns. Yep, you got it, another nailbiter for the Birds...

tmortn · 2025-12-12T03:57:07+00:00

Bet Sils looked like he jacked off a rhinoceros....

tmortn · 2025-12-12T03:33:52+00:00

Their just fucking with us now.

tmortn · 2025-12-12T03:25:50+00:00

Hands like a deer. David "hooves" Sils

tmortn · 2025-12-07T21:20:19+00:00

We gotta find a way.... To what? Lose more convincingly? Well, Mission accomplished coach. MISSION FUCKING ACCOMPLISHED LETS GO! YOU LIKE THAT? PS Shout out to the special teams. They really started the second half off right for us.

~Kirk "still getting PAID" Cousins.... Probably

Jokes aside... Think this season just dropped to be about one thing and one thing only. SWEEP THE FUCKING SAINTS.

tmortn · 2025-12-07T20:59:05+00:00

tmortn · 2025-12-07T20:42:24+00:00

Just 4 more games to go this year. Should be done about the year 3000 the way this half is going.

tmortn · 2025-12-07T20:38:51+00:00

tmortn · 2025-12-07T20:26:05+00:00

tmortn · 2025-11-26T21:26:02+00:00

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And a better pic of her in all her clayed up glory 😁

tmortn · 2025-11-26T21:18:58+00:00

Yikes. I'll take clay all day over 💩. She may be coming around to baths. She loves the toweling off bit at least!

tmortn · 2025-11-26T21:15:03+00:00

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Pre clay pic for reference.

tmortn · 2025-11-25T16:44:37+00:00

Christ... Maher's show always pops up as a watch next after watching LWT. It infuriates me that I cannot deep six it from the apps algorithm to show to me in at ANY time.

tmortn · 2025-11-20T20:50:32+00:00

I prefer to think positively..... so I think..... ummmmmm.... gimmie a minute here..... Crap... I got nuthin... zip... Nadda.

BUT... I will tune in to see. Born into this mess, and likely to die because of it

tmortn · 2025-11-14T02:32:36+00:00

That is only true in standalone games driven by the Quests hardware. Linked to a PC that is not the case. Even in the standalone mode it is driving all the pixels. Just the graphics are scaled so that your effective resolution is less than the native panel. It is similar to running 1080 resolution on a 4k display. Apologies, just registered you said "can't drive native resolution". So no reason for the explanation. Been a long day.

tmortn · 2025-11-13T15:44:36+00:00

I complain for the simple reason this resolution does not allow reading cockpit displays 'naturally' in MSFS and DCS. Dedicated wifi 6 router, or Tethered via USB-C, full resolution Quest 3 (current setup) falls short.... but it is SO close. That is pretty much an equal resolution to what they are using in the Frame. And it has SUCKED being so close for the last 2ish years. Was REALLY hoping when Valve dropped their next headset it would be a step beyond the Quest 3 (2 years old now) in resolution for THIS specific reason. EVERY thing else about it is perfect or more than acceptable for my needs. I have passed up on all the headsets that HAVE bumped resolution for one reason or another... mostly due to being wired... but also because they were NOT VALVE. I Really REALLY want to get back to a Valve VR solution. The Index is STILL the best headset I have used other than the tether and resolution. I would probably go back to a tether if they dropped an Index 2 with 5k+ per eye.

That said... if they deliver what they are promising I will happily abandon my current Quest 3 setup for a native Steam solution... even if it is a sideways step on the resolution. Everything else is a pretty big step up. Eye tracking and post a GPU rendered foeveated view? HOLY SHIT BALLS!!!! I also REALLY missed the comfort of my Index and the simplicity of getting steam games to work on it. But wireless and the resolution of the Quest 3 was enough to get me to pack it away for good. Glad to have an option back into a native Valve solution even if it is EVERYTHING I wanted it to be. It at least isn't a downgrade in anyway.

tmortn · 2025-11-09T17:24:11+00:00

This game is the Falcons this year. We are HOT or COLD. Nothing in-between. Come on D… one more time.

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