Hardware & Technical Anyone else thinking about a new video card before Horizons?
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Stretching the budget (if you mean US $), but gets my vote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121899R
That's what I have, works well, quiet & cool too. Should be able to keep up for a while yet. I had a 750ti before & the fps improvement was significant.
That's not a bad recommendation. I'm lucky enough to have an EVGA GTX 980. The 900 cards are very good and so far i haven't had any problems with mine that a driver update didn't fix.
Really? *sigh* guess it's time to start saving...
I also use a GTX 760 2GB and I am pretty happy with the Videocard. I run the game with 1680x1050 and get constant 60fps, if I ignore the hickups of the annoying stutter that plagues cheap and expensive setups as well. In other words, with a GTX 760 you don't have a bottleneck unless you run the game with ultra high resolution or an Oculus Rift maybe.
I got a Gigabyte GTX 980 Gaming G1 that is really great. The GTX 970 has the slow RAM issue if you use more then 3,5 GB and also some less shaders.
For VR a lot ppl tell the GTX 980 will be the minimum choise, but hey i cant really tell.
For 1080p GTX 980 is fine if you want to go higher resolution with ultra settings Maybe the GTX 980ti is a better choise.
Overall ED does not stress the GTX980 much in 1080p.
Witcher 3 kinda does.
The GTX 980 got already a good amount cheaper, while the 970 did not get much cheaper.
Overall i think all actual NVidia cards are to expensive.
For VR a lot ppl tell the GTX 980 will be the minimum choise, but hey i cant really tell.
For 1080p GTX 980 is fine if you want to go higher resolution with ultra settings Maybe the GTX 980ti is a better choise.
Overall ED does not stress the GTX980 much in 1080p.
Witcher 3 kinda does.
The GTX 980 got already a good amount cheaper, while the 970 did not get much cheaper.
Overall i think all actual NVidia cards are to expensive.
Newegg have an EVGA GTX 970 4GB for $300 after a rebate.
Might be worth a punt.
Might be worth a punt.
I can haz the Titan? You can haz my old AMD HD7470 (which runs ED fine, btw, although ultra might kill it very dead... but with reasonably awesome settings it churns out 70+ FPS in stations with 1080p - 120+ in combat).
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lol
i dont think i can part woth my soulmate.i have allways 60fps, but i think my gsync monitor has capped it at that.
I'm running an Asus GTX 760 OC 2GB (or whatever) runs 1080P 60FPS quite well only drops a little in some situations, but I am looking to update at some stage when I replace my 55" 1080P Tv with a 4K TV. Though,when that happens, I know not.
I'll probably be buying a second hand GTX980Ti.
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I'll probably be buying a second hand GTX980Ti.
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Probably capped there, but then again, if you can do 60+, it does a bit reduce stutter (or possibility of stutter) if you cap there (as the hardware doesn't need to try do 500 fps or something silly like that... and thus also *potentially* makes the hardware run cooler).
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I have a superclocked EVGA GTX 770 2gigs, i'm hoping i won't have to upgrade. I might get a second one and go SLI if i get VR, hopefully the DX12 on windows 10 or nvidia's VRA Support apparently enables you to use 1 card per eye which is super more efficient to get great FPS's to reach the 70-90 fps oculus are aiming for.
I would heartily recommend a gtx 970 (msi gaming 4G version being my choice).
I run ED with a single 970 and it comfortably runs ultra settings at 2715x1527 (down sampled via DSR to 1080) at locked 60 (unlocked it's around 120fps in stations, 170 elsewhere).
The 3.5Gb ram thing is a non issue since ED is limited to using 2.5Gb anyway even after tweaking the planet and galaxy background textures to 4k and 8k respectively.
Obviously a 980 or 980ti would be nicer but simply not worth the jump in price for the miniscule performance gains. Especially when you can OC a 970 to match and exceed stock 980 performance.
I don't think the 970 would have the required power for a flawless VR experience though. It's ok with the dk2 because of its lower res screen but when consumer version vr kit comes along with higher res screens I think a single 970 would struggle. So if vr is your aim I would look to go higher up the 9 series chain.
All in all a 970 is still the best value for money vs performance card. I would discount any ati offerings at the moment because of their horrendous win10 drivers.
I run ED with a single 970 and it comfortably runs ultra settings at 2715x1527 (down sampled via DSR to 1080) at locked 60 (unlocked it's around 120fps in stations, 170 elsewhere).
The 3.5Gb ram thing is a non issue since ED is limited to using 2.5Gb anyway even after tweaking the planet and galaxy background textures to 4k and 8k respectively.
Obviously a 980 or 980ti would be nicer but simply not worth the jump in price for the miniscule performance gains. Especially when you can OC a 970 to match and exceed stock 980 performance.
I don't think the 970 would have the required power for a flawless VR experience though. It's ok with the dk2 because of its lower res screen but when consumer version vr kit comes along with higher res screens I think a single 970 would struggle. So if vr is your aim I would look to go higher up the 9 series chain.
All in all a 970 is still the best value for money vs performance card. I would discount any ati offerings at the moment because of their horrendous win10 drivers.
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Right, I've been making do with my two Titan Blacks.
In all seriousness though, the game runs fine on much lesser setups. It even ran pretty well on my new laptop that just uses Intel HD 5500 Graphics on an i5-5200U. ("Ran," since I only use Debian "Jessie"/KDE 'Linux' on it now, and Elite isn't on Linux.)
By the way, I use the Titan Blacks for much more demanding things than video games, like "winning" at BOINC, for example. My computer doesn't even really notice Elite running on top of everything else.
I hope they improve the graphics potentials of Elite, especially that annoying pop-in.
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