I played the game about four or five years back and had to stop because of shoulder issues which were aggravated by the Thrustmaster HOTAS I was using at the time. I am considering trying the game again using mouse and keyboard. So here is my main questions do I need to re purchase the game and if I do will all of my ships etc still be available for play. Thanks fo rany help in advance
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Your game progress is saved on Fdev server
As long as you didn't choose to start over option
If you purchased the game direct from FD then you still own it (will have to purchase any updates such as Horizons or Odyssey). No need to purchase again on Steam. Assuming that's where you bought it from, go to their store, log in with the credentials that you originally used and you will be able to download the up to date launcher and that will install the game when you first log in to play.
Your game was saved and should still be on FD's servers. All this assumes that you can remember your original login email and password.
Your game was saved and should still be on FD's servers. All this assumes that you can remember your original login email and password.
ok , downloading the game now, seems I purchased it back in 2016. It shows 3 downloadable products. Elite Dangerous PC. Elite Dangerous :Horizons - Season Pass-PC and Elite Dangerous: Deluxe Edition. I downloading the first, in retrospect I guess I should have did the Deluxe Edition since it was the last purchase, no biggie I have a fast connection will upgrade the program if necessary. Thanks
It doesn't matter - that just installs the launcher - your download of Horizons (includes the base-game) is done from the launcher.
BTW - Don't install the bottom launcher option "Single Player Combat Training" - that is an old 32-bit prog and I find it messes-up my controls etc in the actual game. You can get all the re-learning / checkout your controls from the in-game "training".
P.S. Welcome home ...
installed last evening, tried doing some of the training stuff. Lets just say it was humbling. Could not even kill the training drones. I will mess with the mouse sensitivity settings a bit and see if I can get the hang of it. I used to be pretty good at FPS games, and if I can't get the hang of the mouse control not may run over to BB and pick up another joystick. Mouse is a Steelseries with lots of programable buttons. I really enjoyed the game back in 2016 and would like to try the new content. Thanks for all the help.
Enable relative mouse and bind a key for, let's say, pitch up. Space work nicely if you use the default wsad
Then mess a bit with controls.
I had to put pitch and yaw on my mouse, vertical and lateral thrusters on wsad and rotationals on qe.
Then everything started to fall in place when playing ED on kb/m (i started on XB using the standard controller then upgraded to MS Elite controller).
Welcome back! @@@07
thanks, I am still just doing tutorials , setting up the key bindings etc. The wife who was a lifetime office worker and very familiar with ergonomics, found a solution to the shoulder issues. I am now setting the joystick on a small adjustable height stool sitting in front of me, which brings the joystick down to the perfect level and my arms/shoulder do not have any stress.
I am looking forward to getting back into the real universe and will be buying the new expansion once I feel comfortable enough to get back into the game itself. When I quit a few years back I could scream in and out of the keyholes at the stations at full throttle. Now I creep in and out like a 85 year old man in a new Buick trying to parallel park.. It's all coming back though and I should be DL'ing Odyssey tonight and back in the uni by tomorrow
Hope your rig is fairly powerful; EDO is quite demanding on the GPU in places. I'd probably stay in EDH if I wasn't getting a new PC.
It's not completely unplayable but I do get the odd slideshow moment on my GTX1050ti.
It's not completely unplayable but I do get the odd slideshow moment on my GTX1050ti.
I don't think I will have any issues this is a recent build that was a "have to" build due to a power surge that fried my surge protector and then my old MB. The gear is 1 generation back for the most part. Ryzen 5 5600X, Asus B550+, 64GB of DDR4 @1333, RTX 3770TI with 8GB, game is installed on a PCIe SSD. Guess I will find out, I went ahead and purchased it
On the face of it you would think that would absolutely crush Oddity, however there are all sorts of reports of high-end systems having poor performance. So just suck it and see, hopefully you will have no issues but even so there are performance improvements in the pipeline.
One thing you probably will notice is the secondary use of your PC as a space heater being more prevalent - GPU loads are really high everywhere except in space travel.
Yeah it's kind of interesting how Odyssey graphics work.
I'm playing it on two rigs - both basically the same (one is Ryzen 5600 and the other Ryzen 3600, both with 32GB RAM and M.2 drives) but one has RTX2080Ti and the other Radeon RX5700. Both show full GPU load so GPU is clearly a bottleneck but both have the same kind of FPS on the ground (within a margin of error).
Not really sure how that works.
I suspect some dev forgot the
if (on the ground)
FPS(55)
else FPS(120)
line somewhere in the engine code.
I'm hoping the 3080 in my new rig will cope admirably but I reckon the optimisation fail in Oddity will stretch things a bit.
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Looks good to me so far, in game FPS meter stays at 60 in the on planet tutorial as well as inflight and in station, they must have framerate capped at 60. Alt tabbing to task manager showed 40% GPU and 15% GPU. So far it runs smooth as butter. Understand this is all in tutorials, so far I have not ventured into open space except to see that I am siting in one of my ships next to some sun. I may venture into the real game later and see if I can find my way to a station. I am hoping I don't have to scoop fuel or anything, I have forgotten so much as far as controls and panel navigation but it is coming back slowly
Turn off the vsync option in game or in your graphics driver settings to get more than 60 fps. Elite Dangerous is not fps limited.
damn ! I should have thought of that , thanks. I am getting old and senile and am easily confused lol
edit - turned off VSync and frame rates are over 300 in space, 70-200 in settlement on foot. Anyway in my opinion a 3060ti and Ryzen 3060 with 32GB's should run the game at max setting just fine from what I am seeing so far. My rig is overkill judging from what I am seeing in task manager. I could easily put together a $1200 rig that would smoke this game if video cards were not so stupid expensive right now. I lucked out by putting in for a notification from B&H Photo and still overpaid for my 3070 or I would still be running my old 970.
Anyway finally felt confident to put my ship down in a settlement out in the boonies. I still need to get my confidence up and get myself back to the sol system which is where I think I left my fleet. Keyword being think since I still need to determine for sure where I left everything130 mil in credits in the bank, which is probably piddly small time compared to a lot of you
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