Hardware & Technical ED, computer spec question and steam sale question

StarPhoenix

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Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.



Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?

lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
 
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shadragon

shadragon
You can run Elite on almost anything, but you'll have to dial back the graphics resolution and quality to play it at a reasonable frame rate.

It all depends on what you are willing to tolerate.

Elite is best on a decent PC and GPU.
 

GG7

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StarPhoenix said:
Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.



Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?

lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
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Running ED on low end or antiquated hardware won't really give you a truthful impression of what this game can deliver.

The game most definitely looks and "feels" better when running at a locked 60fps or higher. I started out on the Xbox version but was put off by the lackluster performance at 30fps. Switched to a PC with an overclocked i7 6700k and a 980ti GPU. I was not able to get a solid/locked 60fps @ 1080p with Ultra settings using that hardware combo.

Had to upgrade to a 1080ti GPU to finally be able to hit and maintain a locked 60fps @ 1080p on all Ultra/Highest settings. The difference in immersion when the fps never falters... ever!, makes a HUGE difference.

That should give you some idea of what higher performance hardware can do for this particular gaming experience.

Well worth the investment in better gear if you really want to see what this game looks and feels like to play.
 
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RexKraemer

RexKraemer
StarPhoenix said:
Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.
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The views in the game are quite important for the fun. I am not sure if I would recommend playing it on such low setting.

StarPhoenix said:
Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?
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The steam Commander Deluxe edition (19,99€) is the complete game, its all you can have currently (except for cosmetics from the frontier shop).

StarPhoenix said:
lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
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No, you must install through steam, but than you can start the E: D launcher without running steam. Just locate the exe file in the steam folders: c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\EDLaunch.exe
 
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MickyG1982

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StarPhoenix said:
Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.



Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?

lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
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I can guarantee that you will not be able to run the game on that laptop. This is why: "64 MB video card thats intergrated" Not even dialing back the graphics is going to help that.
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
I don't recommend playing ED on a super low spec machine.

I used to play it on my Potato laptop (Acer aspire 5740G).

Average FPS was like 10. Lol
Unless I set the supersampling to 0.5, then I got a pretty high FPS, but I couldn't read a damn thing.
But with such slow FPS, you can't really do combat, docking is stuttery, planets tend to not render correctly, it's all very messy.

My main PC can run ED at pretty high settings, and it looks great.
I just use my laptop for getting simple tasks done, like travel, or cargo CGs while on my lunch break at work. :D
 

MickyG1982

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CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I don't recommend playing ED on a super low spec machine.

I used to play it on my Potato laptop (Acer aspire 5740G).

Average FPS was like 10. Lol
Unless I set the supersampling to 0.5, then I got a pretty high FPS, but I couldn't read a damn thing.
But with such slow FPS, you can't really do combat, docking is stuttery, planets tend to not render correctly, it's all very messy.

My main PC can run ED at pretty high settings, and it looks great.
I just use my laptop for getting simple tasks done, like travel, or cargo CGs while on my lunch break at work. :D
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ED, even in vanilla form is highly unlikely to run at all on his system, your laptop at least had some form of GPU which, while still falling short of modern was at least able to steal up to 2gb of RAM when it needed to (if it didn't come with its own) & was capable of running DX11. The OP is talking about running it on a system that has a 64Mb intel chipset, there is no way shape or form that that is going to work & even if it did his frame rate would be something akin to running FE2 on the A500...
 

Lucifera Danzig

Lucifera Danzig
StarPhoenix said:
Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.



Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?

lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
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Looks like your laptop fails on more than one count for minimum specs.

Memory: 6 GB RAM - 50% more than what you have.

Graphics: Nvidia GTX 470 / ATI 7240HD (DirectX 11 functionality required) - the NVidia cards seem to all have 1280mb of memory, the ATI card 2GB of memory.
Nvidia's card has 20 times what you have, the ATI card 32 times.)

I don't think you could possibly have a good experience trying to run ED on that machine.
 

GammaZ

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Base, 32bit game, can run on pretty high settings on a potato.
I played it on Celeron E3200 / 4Gb DDR2 / GF 9600GT 512MB and it worked surprisingly good, like almost perfectly good (60FPS in space and such, with 1920*1080 too...).
64bit/horizons are far more demanding though, starting with DX11 requirement and at least modern dual core or old quad core CPU.
Also, intel iGPU-s are often reported like "64MB" which is not correct, they can use 2GB-something from RAM. As far as i know there are no intel GPU-s in core-i-something CPU-s which have hard limits on RAM usage like 64MB.

Base game, will, most likely run, if there are no compatibility issues with GPU. Horizons almost 100% will not.
 
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MickyG1982

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GammaZ said:
Base, 32bit game, can run on pretty high settings on a potato.
I played it on Celeron E3200 / 4Gb DDR2 / GF 9600GT 512MB and it worked surprisingly good, like almost perfectly good (60FPS in space and such, with 1920*1080 too...).
64bit/horizons are far more demanding though, starting with DX11 requirement and at least modern dual core or old quad core CPU.
Also, intel iGPU-s are often reported like "64MB" which is not correct, they can use 2GB-something from RAM. As far as i know there are no intel GPU-s in core-i-something CPU-s which have hard limits on RAM usage like 64MB.

Base game, will, most likely run, if there are no compatibility issues with GPU. Horizons almost 100% will not.
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There is no 32bit nor dx10 support anymore which leads to another point. If the OP only has 4gb of ram then there is a good chance that he is running a 32bit OS. If that is the case the 64bit version again will not run.
 

GammaZ

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MickyG1982 said:
There is no 32bit nor dx10 support anymore which leads to another point. If the OP only has 4gb of ram then there is a good chance that he is running a 32bit OS. If that is the case the 64bit version again will not run.
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Hmm when did they removed it? You are right, it is not available in launcher now, just... i am sure i saw it there not long ago.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
GammaZ said:
Hmm when did they removed it? You are right, it is not available in launcher now, just... i am sure i saw it there not long ago.
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Certainly very recently, to start 2018 on exclusively 64-bit bases, and in anticipation of "Beyond"
 
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Serin Vickers

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As others have said - your specs are too weak to have a good time.
There's a difference between being able to run a game at all at lousy framerate just for the sakes of it or being able to run it well enough to enjoy - the latter sadly won't be possible.

To answer the other question:
Elite Dangerous + Horizons season pass (the expansion) is what you want. You can buy them separately or bundled but the Commander Deluxe Edition bundle on Steam also contains a few vanity items, called the Commander Pack, that you do not need and probably don't want either (there are many pretty ship skins in the official store that make those from the Commander Pack pale in comparision). The price difference isn't huge though so you're not paying a lot for those ship skins: In Euro it's 18,73€ for ED + Horizons individually - and 19,99€ for the Commander Deluxe Edition. If you don't want the skins you could save 1,26€. ;)
 

ajg74

ajg74
I wouldn't run it on that, it would be awful! For a laugh we tried it on our MS Surface 4 i7 (which has the "higher end" Intel Iris GPU) and it was awful, very low frame rates with any settings set to something acceptable, ie actually being able to read text and things look somewhat how they are meant to and it started to cook itself as well!

We have 2 PC's that run it, one is a higher end i7 6700k with water cooling and with a GTX1080 which is great at 4k and with the Rift. The other runs an old i7 2600 with a GTX770 4GB card (with a slight overclock on it)and it plays the game great at 1080p and most settings at ultra or high, solid 60fps everywhere.

So while you don't need the latest and greatest PC to run the game well, you do need something half decent, and make sure whatever GPU you get that it has at least 4gb of dedicated memory on it as the game will use every drop of it to run smoothly!
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
Put that money towards saving up for a better PC, OP.
64MB integrated graphics, i strongly doubt it'll even run on that.
Can try and see, and then just get a steam refund of course.
Make sure not to exceed the 2 hour time limit though.
 

Jimbodiah

Jimbodiah
GG7 said:
Running ED on low end or antiquated hardware won't really give you a truthful impression of what this game can deliver.

The game most definitely looks and "feels" better when running at a locked 60fps or higher. I started out on the Xbox version but was put off by the lackluster performance at 30fps. Switched to a PC with an overclocked i7 6700k and a 980ti GPU. I was not able to get a solid/locked 60fps @ 1080p with Ultra settings using that hardware combo.

Had to upgrade to a 1080ti GPU to finally be able to hit and maintain a locked 60fps @ 1080p on all Ultra/Highest settings. The difference in immersion when the fps never falters... ever!, makes a HUGE difference.

That should give you some idea of what higher performance hardware can do for this particular gaming experience.

Well worth the investment in better gear if you really want to see what this game looks and feels like to play.
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Rubbish. I run a 4790k no oc with gtx970 at 3440*1440 and have no problem with 60fps vsynchd at ultra. You dont need your hw to run this game.
 

ZeroAi

ZeroAi
StarPhoenix said:
Hi im thinking of buying elite dangerous, but my laptop specs are a bit sub par, and not sure if I can run it at all.

The follow is my old laptop: Intel core I3 2.3 ghz, and 4gigs ram Also it had a 64 MB video card thats intergrated. According to the can i run it site, it says no but also says no to other games that I AM able to run.



Lasty I see a steam sale, and wondering if that as a package includes the entire game+ current expansions for 20 usd, or am i misreading it ?

lasty if I can get it for good deal ons team and can run it, if I buy the steam version,MUST I use steam to play it?
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I've run ELITE on my i3 netbook with integrated Intel video, 6gb ram, and an ssd and it runs good HOWEVER it takes a minute or two to load.

When on sale, you can often buy it on FDev store for the same price and they will give you a Steam and Oculus Key if desired (as of December 2017 - I just bought a second copy.)
 
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