Running ED on a geforce gt430,

[Stonecoldamason]

I Know, I've been told I shouldn't be able to play on my settings, Geforce experience is useless, doesn't optimise, says my system is below, well below, so doesn't work.
I'm saving up to get a better one, but is anyone running the game on a lower gpu? Or similar?
I am actually running it on everything at medium settings, I've put shadows to low and filters off, get a decent frame rate about 40fps average, rarely drops below I think. It seems good enough to play without problems, so holding off on a new card till I can afford a Gtx970, I can have a few ships on screen at any given time, have been dogfighting with anaconda's and system authority ships, and group ships at nav points etc, no problems, keep reading on forums etc that folk using either bigger rigs or better cards having issues running it, am I missing something or just lucky?

 

[Tar Stone]

Depends on your resolution. I get 24fps in stations, up to 60fps in space on a laptop with a gt525m overclocked slightly.

 

[NumptyScrub]

Performance depends on a whole slew of factors, so if your bottleneck is your GPU (rather than an old CPU, or a slow hard disk, or whatever) then I'm not surprised you can play it ok on a 430.

If you do grab a GTX970 then your bottleneck is going to shift to something else. If you are ok with posting the rest of your spec, I'm sure we could advise what else you might want to consider so that you see the performance you want out of the 970 when you do buy it

 

[CMDR i Tetsuo]

I'm running on an i5 laptop with an Nvidia 400M card, I'm well below spec but can play without problem as long as I stay away from planetary rings and large clusters.
When monitoring my system it becomes obvious the i5 is doing fine but the 400M is struggling to keep up, I'd like to try and disable the card and run the game on the processor alone but can't figure out how to do this, any suggestions?

 

[Vincent Starson]

430 is a low end graphics card, of the 400 series nvida gpus.

The last two digits denote the power.

00-45 : Low end - No prefix, G, GT,
50-65: Mid range - Prefix GTS, GTX
70–95: High range - Prefix GTX


Compare here, a 430 vs 460: http://www.hwcompare.com/8231/geforce-gt-430-vs-geforce-gtx-460-1gb/

Cost of 430: $60 USD
vs
Cost of 460: ~$90-$100 USD

Edit: The main bottleneck for you is the low 512mb memory on your card, and low bus speeds it has.

 

[yellowpage]

With this Dell XPS laptop and CH fighterstick and pro throttle, ED seems to runs well enough except that controls such as fire primary weapon don't work instantly even at 1360x768 with low quality (which auto setup says could be high). I reckon this makes combat more difficult but am clueless about these matters so any tips would be welcome...

 

[AuGuR]

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With this Dell XPS laptop and CH fighterstick and pro throttle, ED seems to runs well enough except that controls such as fire primary weapon don't work instantly even at 1360x768 with low quality (which auto setup says could be high). I reckon this makes combat more difficult but am clueless about these matters so any tips would be welcome...

Would say it's not just your GPU that's your issue as far as performance. Your CPU speed itself is lacking as well.

Secondly and personally I would say anyone gaming on a laptop is just asking for performance issues, unless quad core @ 3ghz (or better) with the GPU being nVidia m800 series or higher/ATI (AMD) 280x equivalent or higher ATI. More to the point, avoid those laptops with "switchable" graphics setups (ASUS, I'm looking at you for the example here), it doesn't work as advertised because, the intel gpu being the primary, the game will latch on to the primary "card's" stats rather than the "gaming" GPU sitting next to it.

As far as the stick's issues, if you have them plugged in to the laptop directly, I would say that's it's problem. You might want to go with a powered USB 3.0 hub. Laptops are notoriously bad, even when plugged in to an outlet, supplying power to the USB ports. Anything more than a mouse and a webcam, you're just asking for issues.

 

[yellowpage]

Would say it's not just your GPU that's your issue as far as performance. Your CPU speed itself is lacking as well....As far as the stick's issues, if you have them plugged in to the laptop directly, I would say that's it's problem. You might want to go with a powered USB 3.0 hub. Laptops are notoriously bad, even when plugged in to an outlet, supplying power to the USB ports. Anything more than a mouse and a webcam, you're just asking for issues.

Bad news, obviously, but thanks. Interesting about the need for a powered USB hub, will do.