Not strictly a cave as my laptop really /is/ dying, but I now have my new PC. I decided to go for a desktop because my laptop, while it’s been great overall, could have been saved had it been a desktop. The screen is failing spectacularly ( and when it does, could cause issues booting in at all ), and it’s started switching itself off.
Getting a desktop for gaming/editing at home and Mac Mini M1 for chucking in my laptop bag and plugging in at the studio is still cheaper than buying a good gaming laptop now, and fits my use case a lot better tbh. So that’s what I did. I bought a pre-built PC Specialist 3070 and a new Mac Mini M1. Love them both. And it comes in at less than or about the same as an RTX 3070 laptop with components I can’t replace.
Anyway. On top of that, we had a spectacular cave on Quest 2 VR gear as well. So I combined them today and gave iRacing a go in VR.
Worth keeping in mind here. I’m running OBS, recording in full HD at 60 fps; and running iRacing in VR at the same time, at one notch down from max detail. It still ran the game at 90 fps almost rock solid. I was testing VR recording because it was pretty much the sticking point with my laptop. Just asking too much of it to record VR and race on the same machine. This 3070 is a wee monster 🙂
And to top it off, I finally got my head around Oulton Park! 2 seconds a lap faster than I could muster last year just before Xmas. 1:08.9 summat. 😊
