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MAC_MAN86 said:This stinks! We bought Rifts based upon they worked until 1.3 added the SSE4,2 check BUT they continued to work with hacks and we continued to buy GAMES/APPS as valued customers!
Now they just want rid of old PCs and FORCE us to buy new tech!!
Regardless of their Terms & Conditions you simply DO NOT discriminate in this world.
If this must go to a court they will indeed get more trouble than they it's worth to simply switch off a customers use in an instant!!!
Consider us as leaving until you revert this ASAP and possibly for life.
12-03-2018 04:49 AM
There seems to be 4 issues here if I've read all the related posts correctly:
The first is that there is a hardware requirement for the Rift that is quite high compared with most hardware you buy for a computer, which is understandable.
The second is that the new Oculus updates appear to prevent hardware not meeting the requirement to run the Oculus software rather than previous versions just giving a warning.
The third seems to be that Rift owners can no longer side-load older versions of pre-saved Oculus software to get around the issue.
And the forth seems to be that unsupported OS now includes Windows 7 and that also now prohibits Oculus install.
I can totally understand the Rift and any other VR headset needing a PC in the top 10% to run it adequately (I'm guessing at the percentage) and I can understand Oculus not wanting unsupported older versions of their software being installed.
I have a lot of sympathy though for people who were using a work around and now can't and personally I think Windows 7 should either still be supported or users should be able to run versions of Oculus that allow it to run on Windows 7. Just with the proviso that those users no longer get support if there is a problem. That seems reasonable to me.
It may be that Oculus have been receiving a lot of support tickets from people who have PCs that never met minimum specs and have thought ok enough, we're going to now prevent those PCs from running the software, in other words telling the user that they've been getting support for below spec machines but really shouldn't have been. And they maybe think this will help reduce the problems.
It probably will have the opposite effect on the number of support tickets though, so Oculus may backtrack.
Anyway, bottom line is I suppose I'm saying I'd advise on upgrading whatever needs to be upgraded (hardware or OS)but I totally sympathise with anyone who has this issue. And I'd advise anyone with this issue to open a ticket regardless.
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