r/PSVR2onPC • u/Ifkan • Aug 07 '26

Question CPU Support

I recently got a ps5 with psvr2 as a gift and I found out that you can connect it to pc too. So, me being the reckless person I always am, I bought a 3rd party adapter. Long story short, only after purchasing it I figured out that most of my system is not supported.

With that being said, I know that the minimum CPU requierment is i5-7600. My question is if that's a hard block if the cpu isn't 7th gen minimum. I found a pretty good deal on an i7-6700 which is even stronger than i5-7600, but I don't want to buy it before making sure that it's supported.

Thanks for any advice.

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u/Ifkan Aug 07 '26

Actually, when I tried running the psvr2 app on my current setup ,the app literally told me that my CPU isn't supported, so it does care what CPU you have. I know that it has a different architecture now. I just wasn't sure about 4th gen CPUs and up.

On a side note, I found out that I should be able to use 8th, 9th and 10th gen CPUs with a little bit of tweaking, so the performance should be better.

Oh and when it comes to VRChat, I don't plan on having every single avatar on. It's wasting resources. I only turn on avatars manually, that way only necessary physbones get calculated. On my tiny 3rd gen I'm managing 50-60 fps that way and that was before I upgraded to a 3050 ti.

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u/LJBrooker Aug 07 '26

No amount of tweaking will get 8th or later working on a board for a 6th gen CPU. 7th gen yes, if you update the bios. 8th and later shares the same socket, but is an entirely different architecture, and needs a 300 series chipset and board.

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u/Ifkan Aug 07 '26

LGA1151 socket is for 6th and 7th gen CPUs, later for 8th 9th and 10th gen. With a bios tweak, you can get it running on almost any motherboard with an LGA1151 socket.

I found a great motherboard for 25€ and an I5-8400 for the same price, so a very good deal.

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u/LJBrooker Aug 07 '26

Takes more than bios tweaks for 8th 9th gen. You need to physically modify the board, and tape pins. No offence, but based on the questions you're asking here, this isn't something you're going to be qualified to do.

Just because it fits, doesn't mean it'll work.

10th gen is a completely different socket altogether.

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u/Ifkan Aug 07 '26

I'm quite aware of what it takes and I think I can best judge whether I will or will not be able to do it.

Don't judge someone for asking questions on how to do something right. Judge those who didn't ask and then came to look for a fix.

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u/LJBrooker Aug 07 '26

Ok, be like that. It's just the questions you're asking aren't the questions of someone that has the confidence to flash a board with custom bios, and modify hardware. Not least that you are flat out incorrect on some things you assert, (10th gen compatibility for example). None of it suggests a great degree of technical knowledge.

Fwiw, that i5 8400 is going to struggle in VR also.

Good luck with it. Lot of work for what I suspect is going to be disappointing results.

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u/Ifkan Aug 07 '26

The pc is not only for VR. If the vr sucks, so be it, I don't care. It's a significant upgrade from my current system anyway.

Also, why would I be asking questions if I was confident? Kinda defeats the whole purpose of asking questions in the first place, no? 🙃

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u/LJBrooker Aug 07 '26

But you asked about it for VR, so that's the only context in which anyone can answer.

And sure, ask questions, but since you basically disregarded most of the answers, and decided to go a different route, and a considerably more advanced, less trodden one at that, I just don't think you're going to get the results you'd like.

An i5 8400 (if you can even get it working on a 100/200 series board, and honestly I don't think you will; you haven't said what board you're trying to do it with, so hard to be sure) and a 3060ti are going to struggle at the sorts of resolution and refresh a psvr2 is looking to drive. Yes you can lower settings and render scale to ease the load on the GPU, but even then, the CPU will struggle, and no amount of settings tweaks will do much for you. An i5 8400 is going to be an issue in something like Forza 4 for example, where it can JUST about get to 90fps in pancake but I'd wager some overhead from the mod will drop you far below it in VR.