Do you have a link for the card you're using? I've tried the cables I had to hand and none of them worked, so I'm just waiting for one I ordered to arrive, but I'm not optimistic. I expect I'll need a card too.
Is that 100% confirmed? Do we know if a converter will allow it to work in a type a socket?
I bought this one from Amazon, and it's worked perfectly for me so far
Thanks. That's a bummer. I guess I'll just wait to see if anyone else gets it working with an adapter or I'll need to buy a USB-C pcie card.
There is almost no chance the quest 2 comes out before 2022 (late 2020 might have a quest with more room on it though). Even then it might be pushed off until 2023 or so if eye tracking is close in 2022 as it could make a giant difference for the quest. (you can with eye tracking make it so it only renders where a person is looking making it so you can reduce power needed by 50-70% to render stuff, meaning you can get quite a bit better graphics on the same hardware)
You should be absolutely fine; I only have a 2060 (non-Super) and in my limited tests it worked without issues. I opted for the Quest for wireless play, but waited until PC Link was announced, as to me it seems the Quest now provides the best of both worlds.
Might be wrong, but I've read that the real bottleneck is comes from how quickly the onboard processor can decode the stream, and that the current maximum decode rate is well below what 5Gbps can deliver. Carmack seems to be suggesting future performance improvements may come from implementing their own to-the-metal decoding solution to keep latency low whilst also circumventing the performance cap of native decoding. So yeah, the cable seems to be mostly about flexibility and length. The fact that they've specified it so highly in other areas makes me feel like there's more to it, though...
Try to go into settings and launch Link from the bottom
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