so I've recently seen a lot of videos of people running games on stock hardware
since the video card shortage. So I wanted to actually put some intel chipsets to the test in VR
meaning no video card just the onboard graphics and
I'm going to just go over what I basically found now I originally wanted to do this tutorial with
the intel UHD 750 but even though windows mixed reality said it was compatible I could not get it
to sync up or link up I tried the windows mixed reality headset and the software that came with
it I also tried the oculus software and the quest 2 link and airlink and it just would not connect
now keep in mind I used if my memory serves me correctly it was a elite desk 800 HP 800 g8 mini
now that's not to say that the SFF or full tower would not work I don't know because I do not know
how they clocked with chips or how they make them a little differently for the minis so I decided to
go to the laptop route and try a zbook instead a g8 zbook now the onboard graphics for this Zbook
is an iris xe which is actually supposed to be better than the 750 according to benchmark sites
so this is what I found um as you can see from the footage it I'm just showing off the chip
so you know exactly what I'm using and what the specs are of the system I only have 16 gigs of ram
in this laptop so that may hinder it a little bit but right now we're just trying to see what loads
what works what doesn't etc. according to windows mixed reality it will work on some VR I went ahead
and ran the steam VR performance test also and the frames looked great it looked great on the screen
but after the results it basically said no you can't use any of it so hopefully I can prove
it wrong I'm going to just run through real quick what did and didn't run let me go through the ones
that flat out didn't load meaning they crashed immediately when I tried to start them horde
attack didn't load spider-man far from home didn't load air car actually didn't load I thought that
would considering it's kind of low requirement and since we're on the topic of low requirements
zooma VR didn't load all space VR didn't load uh and last but not least moss didn't load now
moss that's a higher requirement game I was not surprised that that didn't load now to talk about
games that loaded but froze shortly after portal stories VR loaded and then froze gorn loaded and
then flat out froze and last but not least star wars droid repair froze which that one I was very
surprised that it froze because I was able to use that on my gear VR they had a mobile version for
it and it's also very low requirement and here's just a quick clip of one of the errors that I got
on portal stories because I was able to actually capture it it had two separate driver errors
now onto the stuff that actually did load I was extremely surprised what worked versus what
didn't , basically everything I thought was going to work didn't work and everything that I thought
wasn't going to work actually worked and you're going to see what I mean by this
so VRchat actually worked it was slow and I had to baby it a little bit but it worked it didn't
crash I could go in and say hi to people now when I first entered the world my frame rate
was really really bad and then if you just stand still and count to ten it's like okay I can look
around I can move around we're good to go but yeah my avatar loaded and I even went into a I tried to
find a large crowd of people and have them throw some particle effects around and it still didn't
crash it was able to process it so I don't know if it's how it does the calculations or how it was
programmed but props it actually worked on this standalone chip it actually worked on the stock
iris xe chip and special thanks to everybody that allowed me to be in there and record
using an iris xe chip another game that worked great was super hot super hot worked flawless
I did not even realize I was using a stock graphics probably wasn't the best resolution
but it actually did work and work well I had so much fun I actually hit the wall with my
controller because i forgot that I was doing the testing I was actually enjoying myself playing the
game and on to the last one that I got working half-life alyx actually loaded and worked and
did not crash now this one is not playable I could load it I could get in I could look around but it
just the frame rate was so low it wasn't enjoyable I couldn't really play it I got really sick really
fast just because of the frame rate and the lag and everything else so if you're just doing it for
testing sure and you may be able to modify your settings a little bit in game if you guys have
uh low setting mods to get it working better but yeah as as a standalone jumping in and playing it
it's not gonna work now a lot of these not working maybe due to either bad programming or just the
fact that they never considered using an intel graphics chip for their game or program so I
basically made this video to see if it was viable to just take your standard laptop and a windows
mixed reality headset and use that for mobile VR um and also to see if we can get around getting
these big expensive video cards for VR as far as price wise goes just get a quest 2 they are $300
and that standalone VR you'll have a decent experience it doesn't require a $300 video card
or a thousand dollar headset basically almost all things for steamvr will not work on this chip but
some of the windows mixed reality stuff will so intel graphics still has a long way to go
I don't think intel has ever had gaming as a priority for their onboard graphics chips
if social VR is going to be a big thing or even more VR gaming is going to be a big
thing they're going to probably have to get on board until next time have a great one.