(Image credit: Future) How Alyx feels on different VR headsets Even on the lowest settings, I experienced massive amounts of tearing and dropped frames.
The takeaway? Yes, you can do it-but you probably shouldn't. At the risk of vomiting on my own bedroom floor, I tried running Alyx on a GTX 1650. The situation is even weirder on the AMD side, where an RX 5700 XT defaults to 'Medium,' despite the equivalent RTX 2070 defaulting to 'High.' You can definitely bump the RX 5700 XT higher, in my experience.
A 2080 Ti defaults to 'High' and not 'Ultra,' but having run the game maxed out I couldn't tell you why.
They really don't want people to get sick. Generally I found Valve's presets a bit conservative. I did what I could though, and used three short sections of Alyx to run my tests-one at the very beginning of the game as a Combine Strider walked in front of City 17's Citadel, another particle-heavy section later on involving a well-meaning Vortigaunt, and a third in the pitch-dark (and headcrab infested) sewers.
