Horizons PC Performance and Horizons - Good/Bad?

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Welcome CMDR's

As we know during the beta people reported various levels of performance which over the different builds got generally better. Now with the final release build and the debug turned off (You did remember to turn it off didn't you? :D) I was wondering how you're PC was coping.

At home I keep a humble rig for gaming, keeps me aware of how the games I work on play on a run of the mill PC. When I saw the new min specs I thought I might need to upgrade due to the RAM increase but no issues as yet...

i5 3470 3.2Ghz - No hyperthreading - Quad Core
Asus P8H61-MX - LGA 1155
4Gb RAM 1333Mhz DDR3 - 15.11.1 Crimson drivers
MSi R9 390 8Gb 1040Mhz
SSD for O/S (Win 7 64) and ED
Various drives

While it's never going to win any speed awards I've go no complaints with it's performance. In ED 1.4 I was running a stable 60FPS with V-sync on @ 1080 2x super-sample.

Last night I was pleased to test out the new detail settings for planets and by just dropping the sampling down to 1.5 I can still get 60FPS with the slider all the way to the right and Ultra selected for the worlds. True my SSD is providing the VRAM and quite a bit of it after looking at Afterburner but even when driving the moon buggy around the GPU was not being hammered despite 4.2GB of VRAM being used I was not running at the GPU's full capacity. CPU was running smoothly to, no heart attacks.

I take my hat of to the folks at Frontier - you've done a great job on optimization from my point of view, pat yourselves on the back :)

But what about you and you're PC? How have you got on, any horror stories, BSOD's, fires, earthquakes... Or has it been a painless transition? FPS - do you still get them or have you had to change you're settings?

Keep it nice and no shouting. :D
 

HagbardCeline

HagbardCeline
Hello cmdr,

I was not on beta and only clocked an hour in on Horizons. Was able to land but due to my distance from the bubble 5.5kLy I wasn't able to fit a SRV yet.

So far it looks great, run all settings on max and haven't touch the slider yet. I see some random dipps (60><50)in fps hovering over the planet. nothing breaking. I limit it to 60fps since its all my display will do anyway. Just wonder about my system load. GPU maybe 60% and CPU maybe 50% on some cores at the most. RAM 4300MB till 5000MB.Have to get some afterburner graphs. But so far I'm impressed ...

Will do some testing and see what I get in the SRV and around installations once back to core.

Specs in my Sig

/HC
 

OriginalBadBoy

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Mine sits between 50 - 60 fps on my gaming laptop (Core i7 - GTX 870M 3GB) when on planet surfaces so pretty happy with that tbh.

My main rig was playing the beta fine (Core i5 - R9 270 2GB), but it uses an AMD GPU so it has the dreaded SC bug. But apparently AMD have fixed that now, just waiting for a driver update. Otherwise that's pretty much the same as the above (albeit with slightly higher settings, which for reasons unknown I seem to be able to get away with).

Will probably build a new Skylake rig in 2016 once new GPU's have turned up.
 

mbalieiro

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To me, I had serious performance issues (drops from 60fps to 20-30fps after 5 mins on the surface) and I think that is because the SLI (I notice that when I was on surface, after about 5 mins, one of my GPUs usage drop to half, about 40-50% usage).

I have 2xGTX 970@1530 MHz and I play in 2160p with Ultra settings.

Some one else is having this problem?
 

LuciusEsox

LuciusEsox
I5 4590, GTX 970, 16gb ram.

Pleasantly surprised really. Before Horizons everything maxed with 1.5 ss turned on at 1920x1080 = 60fps (limited) everywhere. After Horizons I am running with same settings and drop very occasionally to just below 40 when a lot is going on on planet although it mostly stays in the 45-55 range.

Btw Slider, what slider, where, what does it do ?
 

Psycho__99

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Performance are great
AMD FX 8320
GTX 970
Those who have trouble when descending on surface should try one of options
that allow to dispatch terrain generation load betwen CPU and GPU
especially if they only have a quadcore at 2Ghz
 

Ddraig

Ddraig
I7
16Gb ram
2x GTX960
SSD

Runs ok in space, in planets stutters here and there and LOD textures in my cockpit often.
Had to tweak here and there to keep it more stable and lower from 2.5k to 1920. I was thinking on buy a new video card, but short on the money now.
Game looks great in any case, but cant Ultra it, which is sad.
 

Lowievisser

Lowievisser
Got all amd , running with windows 10 is a no go , around 10fps in supercruise , with windows 7 everything runs smooth 60+fps , planets around 40.
 

Breezewind

B
I get better and smoother FPS with Horizons than with earlier versions. The game looks better, too. Flight model and AI a bit improved, I think. Running Ultra without anti-aliasing at 1920*1200.

Xeon E3-1230v3
8GB RAM
R9 270X 4GB
Fast SSD
Win10
Crimson 15.11
 
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CMDR Byr Goefin

C
3770K
32GB DDR3
GTZ970 4GB DDR4
SSD
WIN 10

Weirdness in stations, but very good overall.

In 4K the quality settings are kinda useless. It all looks good, regardless of setting.
 

CMDR i Tetsuo

CMDR i Tetsuo
Anyone else with a 2gb GFX card getting texturing issues? The inside of my SRV bay (before deploying) is just a blurry mess.
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Intel i7 4790 4Ghz
16GB DDR3
GeForce GTX 760 2GB
 

Jigsaw

Jigsaw
It's good for me. After all the horror stories about the performance I was worried but then I was pleasantly surprised:

My system:

AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3GHz
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 Windforce2 OC 4GB
8 GB RAM
Windows 7

With Terrain Quality and Terrain Material Quality on Ultra and the Terrain Work slider about three quarters to the right I get between 40-60 fps on and around planets and 30-50 around settlements at 1920x1200. I'm happy with the result.
 
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Cyda

Cyda
I used to get solid 60fps in all versions prior to Horizons on high with this spec: i7 4770k @ 4.1ghz, 16GB ram and a GTX 770 but when the beta came out I was getting 20-30fps on planets, which with a bit of tweaking (i.e. reducing some settings) I got up to 45-60fps. So I decided to treat myself to a GTX 970 and i'm now getting 60fps on ultra, so I'm happy again.
 
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Spyke

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Sadly, Horizons sticks its tongue out at me.

Intel i7 860 (2.8 GHz)
8 Gb RAM
Windows 7
Nvidia GTS 240 with 4Gb RAM, DX 11.

It's presumably just the graphics card that's below the minimum spec, and I'm scratching my head a bit trying to decide what to do.

I switched over to ChromeOS on both my desktop and my laptop nearly three years ago, and I'm not a big gamer. I only use this Windows PC to play Elite nowadays. Elite Dangerous season one has been eminently playable on it. I'm a lifetime Kickstarter backer and I was really looking forward to the subsequent expansions.

However, I've been looking at graphics cards and it seems that to get Horizons to run I'd be looking at somewhere near £100 for a card like the GTX 750 Ti. That's probably not going to happen, just to play Horizons.

I can carry on playing season one quite happily, but I wondered what cheaper graphics cards might handle Horizons. The minimum spec card mentioned, the GTX 470, doesn't seem to be available new from Amazon or on a quick Google search outside.

If I want a card for under £50 that will run Horizons, is secondhand from eBay my only option?
 
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Cyda

Cyda
Spyke said:
If I want a card for under £50 that will run Horizons, is secondhand from eBay my only option?
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Sadly, yeah pretty much. A new entry level card is going to be a gtx 960 which will set you back around £170. You could go for a gtx 950 but considering there is only around £30 difference between the 950 & 960 I would certainly go for the 960.

If you can find a cheap 760 or 770 then that might be your best option but expect to be running on mid range settings with those cards, and on low settings with any card lower than a 760.
 
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Spyke

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Cyda said:
Sadly, yeah pretty much.
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Thanks for the advice, Cyda.

I don't mind running on low graphics settings, but it's come as a bit of a shock that I'm looking at a £100 to do even that!

Hey, ho. I'll scour eBay and do some more research.

Failing that, I'll wait a year for the prices to fall, and carry on having fun with season one.
 
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Beavis Tingleball

Beavis Tingleball
I too am very impressed with the performance of Horizons. I reset my PC to stock clocks and still run ultra everything. I have plenty of headroom for performance gains if needed in the future. X79 BBII mobo, i7 3820, 2x GTX 670 pe Sli, 16gb 1600mhz ram, SSD, 2TB striped array, 2TB 7200rpm.
 
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