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So will I be the only person here testing on Windows 8 then?
Nope, I'll be playing on Win8, at least to start with. I was going to give it a go on my bootcamp'd Mac Mini until the OSX client is available....
Might look at Win8 but not until SP1 is out
Ahh... yes... forgot to say that my server is based on a mini-itx motherboard that uses so-dimm. :/
So will I be the only person here testing on Windows 8 then?
I'm using win8...
TBH, it's solid enough. The biggest hurdle for some is the lack of the start bar, though to me, that was one it's attractions. I think the Interface-formerly-known-as-Metro is a breath of fresh air, though, Win8 is the first version of Windows I've used in many years so YMMV ( I'm a Mac / Unix guy )....
My system is a
AMD X2 240e DC 2.8Ghz (fast, upgradable to Phenom if needed)
4 GB RAM (planned to extend it to 8)
SSD for game, HDD for profile
Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (on all machines)
Probably I will get a faster GFX in the course of the year, passive, AMD/ATI HD6670 or HD 67x0
Hopefully the game supports multicore platforms. I also have some slower machines I'd like to try the game (DC-Netbook and QC-Notebook with AMD/ATI chips).
AMD X2 240e DC 2.8Ghz (fast, upgradable to Phenom if needed)
4 GB RAM (planned to extend it to 8)
SSD for game, HDD for profile
Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (on all machines)
Probably I will get a faster GFX in the course of the year, passive, AMD/ATI HD6670 or HD 67x0
Hopefully the game supports multicore platforms. I also have some slower machines I'd like to try the game (DC-Netbook and QC-Notebook with AMD/ATI chips).
MB: Asus P5B-Deluxe
CPU: Intel C2D E7600
RAM: 4 GB DDR2-800
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB
OS: WinXP Pro 32 bit SP3
Hoping this set up will run ED at playable speeds on low to medium settings.
(solid 60 FPS with vSync on @ 1280x1024 & low setting would be nice)
Also hoping to be able to buy a completely new kit (around Q1 of 2014) that will run ED with all bells & whistles enabled without breaking a sweat.
CPU: Intel C2D E7600
RAM: 4 GB DDR2-800
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB
OS: WinXP Pro 32 bit SP3
Hoping this set up will run ED at playable speeds on low to medium settings.
(solid 60 FPS with vSync on @ 1280x1024 & low setting would be nice)
Also hoping to be able to buy a completely new kit (around Q1 of 2014) that will run ED with all bells & whistles enabled without breaking a sweat.
Nice all those computer specs lol
I been playing with a windows 7-64 bit ,Core2 quad Q6600 2.4Ghz , 2 gig memory and AGP, ATI HD Radeon 3850 (overclocked), tho i have also an pcie slot on my computer , my card is good enough to play every game right now.
Untill now i play every game flawlessly on medium/high settings, including skyrim , final fantasy 14 online , fallout new vegas , xcom and some other new titles.
So will see if its playable on my computer , i am great at tuning and will sure make things work without much problems.
for now theres no money to build a new desktop , i dont realy need a new one anyway for the next 2 years , tho maybe a little more memory wouldn't hurt.. but i am too lazy to hack my bios and make it work with more gig's
I love people always being suprised about what my system manages to do and run lol
future plans will be a system with 64 gig or more memory.. because i am planning to use a ramdisk since i am getting tired of the slow ssd and HD's lately
I been playing with a windows 7-64 bit ,Core2 quad Q6600 2.4Ghz , 2 gig memory and AGP, ATI HD Radeon 3850 (overclocked), tho i have also an pcie slot on my computer , my card is good enough to play every game right now.
Untill now i play every game flawlessly on medium/high settings, including skyrim , final fantasy 14 online , fallout new vegas , xcom and some other new titles.
So will see if its playable on my computer , i am great at tuning
and will sure make things work without much problems.for now theres no money to build a new desktop , i dont realy need a new one anyway for the next 2 years , tho maybe a little more memory wouldn't hurt.. but i am too lazy to hack my bios and make it work with more gig's
I love people always being suprised about what my system manages to do and run lol
future plans will be a system with 64 gig or more memory.. because i am planning to use a ramdisk since i am getting tired of the slow ssd and HD's lately
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Excuse for a new gamin rig
Not that I want too come across as smug or snobby.. merely that I think the launch of Elite Dangerous will be a good enough excuse to get a whole new top of the range gaming PC with triple/quad 3d monitors... of course the later you leave it the cheaper current hardware becomes... so going to be a timing issue!
Not that I want too come across as smug or snobby.. merely that I think the launch of Elite Dangerous will be a good enough excuse to get a whole new top of the range gaming PC with triple/quad 3d monitors... of course the later you leave it the cheaper current hardware becomes... so going to be a timing issue!
Drew, you'll probably struggle. The graphics chipset is very low end for gaming, and really only intended for general multimedia playback.
It all depends how scaleable FD are able to make the game, but I'd start saving if you can.
Maybe that he won't be able to play the game in highest graphics settings. But I can't see why he would have to struggle. It's still a Sandy Bridge machine. That's just one generation old. And it's going to be just two generations old when the game hit the market.
If they make the game without graphics customisation so it's only playable on the latest high end hardware, they are just plain stupid. IMO there should always be a graphical setting so low that the game works on a several generation old computer with just a standard graphic GPU (i.e you should be able to turn down the graphics to such a level that you can make the rendering in software with a couple of generation old CPU without the need of GPU rendering.). For playability there is no reason to have better graphics then so you make out the most important part of the games graphical objects. All above that is just bling and eye-candy (which can be nice.. and some people even proclaim it important. But it's not necessary to be able to play the game.).
IMO graphics is the least important part of a game. Sure... A graphically good looking game is nice to look on first time you see it. But after the first 2 minutes of "whoooo", at least I stop seeing the graphics and just concentrate on the game. And at that point a game can be just big blocks with only four colours. I don't care... as long as the game plot, objectives, implementation and controls are good.
One of the bigger problems for them if they require high end desktop hardware is that they will miss out on a big part of their legacy players. Almost everyone I know that have pledged is old Elite/Frontier players. Only one of them is interested in gaming in general and have a high end gaming rig. The rest of them are going to want to play the game on 1-3 years old mid range laptops.
That would be a bad way to let people down. They pledge a lot of money and then they can't play the game due to ridiculous hardware requirements.
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Zmurf,
I said it will be scalable, but there's going to be a limit. Look at the FAQ on the KS page. Quite often playing on minimum settings doesn't usually equate to enjoyment.
The CPU may only be a generation old, but the GPU is older and a G310M was never a decent GPU intended for games. Look at it's general performance in games that are 3 to 4 years old: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-310M.22439.0.html
We'll have to wait and see, but I'd still stand by my original opinion that it "will probably struggle".
I said it will be scalable, but there's going to be a limit. Look at the FAQ on the KS page. Quite often playing on minimum settings doesn't usually equate to enjoyment.
The CPU may only be a generation old, but the GPU is older and a G310M was never a decent GPU intended for games. Look at it's general performance in games that are 3 to 4 years old: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-310M.22439.0.html
We'll have to wait and see, but I'd still stand by my original opinion that it "will probably struggle".
Yes. I know you wrote that it will be scalable... And of course there will be a limit. I understand that they can't allow for support of 10 years old technology. But A lot of people sit with 2-3 years old mid range stuff and will not put down money on new hardware just to be able to play a game.
I just wanted to point out that it quite important that they make the scalability quite high... otherwise they risk to miss out on a big part of their pledgers.
Unfortunately lot of this games initial players will be previous Elite/Frontier players. Many of them is in the age of 30-60 years old. And their main priority won't be to get new hardware to play this game on. And a lot of them probably don't play especially much other games. That's the case for at least me and the majority of the ones I know who has pledged. (Yes... I know that it isn't good practise to refer to the "people you know". It gives a less then adequate cross section. But in this case I really believe it's not that far fetched from reality...)
But as you say... we'll just have to wait and see. But I truly hope that they will make it really scalable.
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Btw: the benchmarks you posted to didn't really tell me much. What FPS will they result in when generating X number of vectors/voxels/matrix layers at X times X size... and so on? And how much less of these do I have to generate to get the same FPS on a weaker hardware? I have no clue what kind of graphical calculation 3D Mark tries to do... The only data I find is what techniques 3D Mark utilities. Not how big the calculations is.
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The problem with 2-3 year old mid range stuff is if it wasn't bought with gaming in mind, then in reality it's low end stuff - and probably only as good as a much older old high end gaming stuff from a GPU perspective. CPUs I'd suspect will be likely to be fine.
But I'd be surprised if it's going to be software rendered, so the GPU is going to be important and I suspect a lot of the onboard/multimedia GPUs will struggle. We'll see
The benchmarks (lower down the page) were to give an indication on performance in games over the past few years - overall that GPU failed to perform in practically anything above the lowest settings (not sure what they were), and those games were a few years old as well. In reality we don't know how the E: D game engine will perform, whether it's comparable to anything in those tests at all.
But I'd be surprised if it's going to be software rendered, so the GPU is going to be important and I suspect a lot of the onboard/multimedia GPUs will struggle. We'll see
The benchmarks (lower down the page) were to give an indication on performance in games over the past few years - overall that GPU failed to perform in practically anything above the lowest settings (not sure what they were), and those games were a few years old as well. In reality we don't know how the E: D game engine will perform, whether it's comparable to anything in those tests at all.
DB said in one of the dev videos that he wants as many people to enjoy ED as possible (in relation to system spec), and of course it's a custom engine which gets you get better dedicated performance...
I will see how the alpha goes and that gives me 4 ish months to get a new PC if required, haven't got a bad spec machine plays WoW on ultra at about 40-60 fps... And WoW is terrible for spec vs quality anyway
Just ordered this! I think it will just about do the job
Case: Xigmatek Midgard Case
Power Supply: EZCool 650W 12cm Fan Blue LED Power Supply
Processor: Intel Core i5 3570K 6MB Cache Socket 1155
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek Achilles CPU Cooler
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2048MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Memory: 8GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz C9 Dual Channel Memory Kit (2 x 4GB)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) Motherboard
Hard Disk Drive One: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SATA III Solid State Drive
Case: Xigmatek Midgard Case
Power Supply: EZCool 650W 12cm Fan Blue LED Power Supply
Processor: Intel Core i5 3570K 6MB Cache Socket 1155
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek Achilles CPU Cooler
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2048MB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Memory: 8GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz C9 Dual Channel Memory Kit (2 x 4GB)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) Motherboard
Hard Disk Drive One: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SATA III Solid State Drive