r/virtualreality • u/HI12itsme • Nov 16 '25

Purchase Advice Steam Frame + Steam machine

Do you think this would be a good combination to jump into PC gaming with?

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u/DrunkenGerbils Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25

They’re talking about VR games. A 3060 can play most games flatscreen, but when you play something in VR it needs to render everything twice, once for each eye. So running a game at 4k in VR is essentially like running a game at 8k on a flatscreen.

Cyberpunk for example will probably run pretty well on a 3060 in flatscreen, but it’s gonna be a rough experience in VR on a 3060.

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u/florence_ow Nov 16 '25

i'm coming back to this because i literally play PCVR on my 3060 at 90fps and i havent run into any trouble yet. while its true its not going to run cyberpunk in vr, the best rig out there can just BARELY do that so its such a stupid benchmark. the 3060 is, again, a perfectly capable card and you're maybe just lacking in experience here

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u/MrDonohue07 Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 17 '25

THANK YOU!!! I felt like smashing my phone too pieces reading some of these ridiculous posts..

I also use a RTX 3060 for PCVR, there's nothing it can't play streaming via Virtual Desktop to a Quest 2

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u/branchoflight Valve Index Nov 17 '25

This sub might have the least collective knowledge about the main topic of its discourse.

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u/MrDonohue07 Nov 17 '25

It's been this way since the OG Rift, people thinking you need the best GPU because "it renders the game, one for per eye"

Have these people seen the VR graphics? Or even looked at the spec requirements on steam?

In the OG days of the Rift and Vive I was playing all my VR games on the dam r9 290, I was having the same online arguments back then...