GTX 285 1GB?

Cmdr NCarter

Cmdr NCarter
Can this card possibly be made to run Elite Dangerous Horizons? It is a DX10 card and from 2009.
It's the quickest card i have at the moment (my GTX670 died on me) and run other games mighty fine despite its age, but Elite will not boot up.
EDIT: It crashes just before the Elite Logo shows up and i get a bugreport window.
I have a Quadro 2000 too but it is pretty darn weak compared to this one. It runs Elite, sure, but... Gosh, it looks like a potato.

There's a new card incoming in a month or so, so i can live without Elite until then if it is impossible to game with this one.
 
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Cmdr NCarter

Cmdr NCarter
DX11 is most certainly it, but, why does the combat training work? The game looked fine while i were in there.
A little line of code somewhere that say "Must have DX11 gfxcard to run the full game"?
 

ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER

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That is a bit strange (to someone who didn't make this game) that training works but the rest won't.

Since you have a card coming soon anyway, there's really no point trouble shooting. But next time you have an issue you believe to be system related, please be sure to include full system details like operating system, if the system is overclocked, which part is overclocked etc. This way if we can't help, then perhaps a member of staff can.

Good news is if you're selling that old card, it should still fetch around 25-35 maybe even more if you're lucky.
 

Cmdr NCarter

Cmdr NCarter
My pc was bought in fall 2012: i7 3770K. 16Gb ram, z77 or so something pro/delux motherboard with a Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce. All stock, never overclocked anywhere.
Old but not toothless. Still decently powerful & functional, except the gfx card, which of course died too early for my taste & despair, with me being a poor unemployed guy at the moment.

I guess i have to be Eliteless until i get a new GFX card. My landlord got a 1070 Ti just laying in his house doing nothing but dusting up, but i can not afford it right now. :(
 

ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER

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Cmdr NCarter said:
My pc was bought in fall 2012: i7 3770K. 16Gb ram, z77 or so something pro/delux motherboard with a Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce. All stock, never overclocked anywhere.
Old but not toothless. Still decently powerful & functional, except the gfx card, which of course died too early for my taste & despair, with me being a poor unemployed guy at the moment.

I guess i have to be Eliteless until i get a new GFX card. My landlord got a 1070 Ti just laying in his house doing nothing but dusting up, but i can not afford it right now. :(
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If your intel parts can sell for ~600 you can go all AMD with a great 3rd gen Ryzen APU which will hold you over no problems. But then again, the idea is about playing games now, not having to mess around getting a new system, and getting a new card would be easier on the likes of ebay.

On the AMD platforrm, you have better options and upgrade paths are more forgiving for cash flow problems with such APU builds.

I was going to buy into the 3rd Gen Ryzen and even jump over the X470 for an X570 mobo, but decided to hold off until it matured a bit more. So until then, i bought a Vega 56 and put it in an old 7850K APU build that has 16GB RAM @2400Mhz and the chip is OC'd to 4.3-4.4Ghz.

When i read about systems costing a whole £1000+ more than mine struggling to play RDR2 without issues, mine played it on ultra settings day one at 1920x1080 without so much as a twitch. Same with Elite Dangerous. I play it on a 4K TV but just stick with 1080 because i hate the gimped desktop when i tab out. I'm so proud of that little 7850K APU! It will become a HTPC in retirement.
 

alexzk

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Linux + wine + dxvk = Elite works. Tried on gts 450 (1Gb) and 1050 (2Gb).

P..S. but always some small problems, for example older dxvk crash elite on alt-tab, newer seems ok, but launcher has no "play" button and drains cpu, but area is clickable. So need click, wait game opened and close launcher ...
Those mysteries are Elite only mostly.
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
funny but when the base game beta first launched in 2013 dx9 was the req
also once you have played on a GTX980 or more most peeps would say 1gb card is unplayable so it is down to interpretation/perception and expectation really too...……………...
in the meantime for my elite fix I would be looking at pioneer space sim or oolite if the base game failed to work too
 
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Cmdr NCarter

Cmdr NCarter
Noone would buy this old "garbage" i'm currently own for a decent price. It's obsolete. And besides, where' would i put the gfxcard if i sold this?
The only value i see is what i can get from it myself. It is still rather potent for everyday usage that i do, and i see no big differences looking at friends PC's in RL enviroments doing the same, except GPU strength in games, which i sorely lack now, and the power it consume is more than newer generations.

I am still poor enough to not being able to get a gfxcard to run Elite. Maybe a few more months... /sigh
 

Rick6549

Rick6549
Cmdr NCarter said:
DX11 is most certainly it, but, why does the combat training work? The game looked fine while i were in there.
A little line of code somewhere that say "Must have DX11 gfxcard to run the full game"?
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Combat training is a super old version of ED. Its also a seperate program, thats why it doesnt need DX11.
 

Cmdr NCarter

Cmdr NCarter
Rick6549 said:
Combat training is a super old version of ED. Its also a seperate program, thats why it doesnt need DX11.
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Too bad really. It probably is just some special effect that hinders this card to run it, as the trainingmissions runs great. I am in it now while typing this!
Honestly, i'm not the greatest with noticing special effects in games, but i think Elite Training Demo looks good enough to have it unlocked for older cards.

Gosh, seriously, i miss my 670 sooo much! :(
 

MickyG1982

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If you just want to play the GTX 1050 or 1050 ti would be very good options for similar performance to the GTX 670. ED will look and play as well as it used to on either of those two cards.

The GTX 970 may also be a good option if you don't mind looking on ebay too.
 

Gully Foyle

Gully Foyle
Cmdr NCarter said:
Noone would buy this old "garbage" i'm currently own for a decent price. It's obsolete. And besides, where' would i put the gfxcard if i sold this?
The only value i see is what i can get from it myself. It is still rather potent for everyday usage that i do, and i see no big differences looking at friends PC's in RL enviroments doing the same, except GPU strength in games, which i sorely lack now, and the power it consume is more than newer generations.

I am still poor enough to not being able to get a gfxcard to run Elite. Maybe a few more months... /sigh
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I'm getting a Radeon XT5600. Never bought into the Nvidia prices.
 
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