Buying another computer to play this game

babelfisch

babelfisch
If your computer is from 2013, buy a new one. Just don't expect better FPS in Odyssey from it.

I just replaced my 2014 computer and it was totally worth the money, even though the GPU was overpriced.
 

Ferry_25

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My take on your question: I would not buy a new rig just for some game. Only when I want a new one myself. Regarding ED? Granted: I don't have that much experience with different game devs but within that limited knowledge I never have encountered a game with this much problems and deaf ears to players wants as FDEV is showing. I keep seeing posts on years old bugs which are refused to be solved. So in my case I would never consider buying a new PC with the hope ED is running properly.
 

MickyG1982

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Annoyingly I can hit the 144hz frame rate cap (inbuilt monitor) at 1080p high / ultra on my laptop in Horizons.

Depending on where I look in Oddy I go from 40 odd to 12 fps. More annoyingly is that is an improvement over earlier patches. Oddy seems to max out both my CPU and GPU at various points.
 

d8veh

d8veh
I have an i9 with RTX 3090. Oddysey can go down to zero framerate and then terrible stuttering. Other times (most of the time in fact), the game is playable, but not X-fantastic. I have nothing on this PC except EDO with associated necessary tools and NMS. It's not used for internet browsing or anything like that. IMHO, you can't buy your way out of these problems at the moment, as their cause is deeper than having enough computing power.
 

Hedy

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I put together a new one in June. There are still some stutters, fps drops and performance issues. New hardware can only correct things to a degree.
 

myothershipisacobraiv

myothershipisacobraiv
What a miserable time to want to upgrade. Can you remember ever seeing this many SKUs inside a single segment? There is a consumer processor being sold for $5300 on newegg. I remember when the extreme super extreme high performancé processor from Intel on its own socket was $3000 or so. Makes you wonder what in the god hell is going on with the ones they're selling for $250.

What was it about being a master race again? I really need to feel like a master race right now.

Godspeed to ye.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Hooplah said:
If I spend $5000.00 on the latest greatest gaming PC with an Intel I9 11900 CPU and the latest great series 3080 ti Nvidia card would my FPS get back to enjoying the game?
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Most people will consider the game to be playable on such hardware, but it's not going to be free from performance issues. There are also major deminishing returns and spending 5k isn't going to get you much more than spending 2-3k.

The current build of EDO is more CPU limited than not on high-end hardware and an 11900 is barely faster than something like a 5600X in light-moderately threaded titles. We are also very near the Alder Lake launch, which may have enough of a lightly threaded performance boost to matter, so if one is crazy enough to build a high-end system for this game, I'd hold out until the 12th gen Intel parts.

VR SenseiMatty said:
Wait for the development of the TPU (tensor processing units) and the neural network machines: probably only the Matrix will help this game to get some reasonable performance.
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Elite: Dangerous isn't going to use any fancy new hardware features, probably ever. Even if they do get around to optimizing the game competently, it will still be dependent on lightly-threaded CPU performance, raw fill rate, and basic DX11 Shader Model 5.0 FP32.

Pigletslastand said:
Or just wait a few more months for the optimizations to find their mark and the game should run ok.
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That's what people were saying six months ago.
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
Morbad said:
Elite: Dangerous isn't going to use any fancy new hardware features, probably ever. Even if they do get around to optimizing the game competently, it will still be dependent on lightly-threaded CPU performance, raw fill rate, and basic DX11 Shader Model 5.0 FP32.
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Exactly, it will be the matrix to be optimized to make us believe that we are in the ED universe while asleep.
 

Mogen Teras

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Morbad said:
Most people will consider the game to be playable on such hardware, but it's not going to be free from performance issues. There are also major deminishing returns and spending 5k isn't going to get you much more than spending 2-3k.

The current build of EDO is more CPU limited than not on high-end hardware and an 11900 is barely faster than something like a 5600X in light-moderately threaded titles. We are also very near the Alder Lake launch, which may have enough of a lightly threaded performance boost to matter, so if one is crazy enough to build a high-end system for this game, I'd hold out until the 12th gen Intel parts.



Elite: Dangerous isn't going to use any fancy new hardware features, probably ever. Even if they do get around to optimizing the game competently, it will still be dependent on lightly-threaded CPU performance, raw fill rate, and basic DX11 Shader Model 5.0 FP32.



That's what people were saying six months ago.
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To be fair, Horizons had its own share of performance issues and it took FDev months to fix it, bordering on a full year.

Taking arduously long amounts of time to fix stuff is FDev in a nutshell.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Pigletslastand said:
Let's be fair.. Horizons was never fully fixed. It just got pretty stable at least in comparison to Odyssey!
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Seems alright to me, or do you mean other than just performance?

If I recall, this was before Odyssey released, or around the same time. Usually I use V-sync at 60 FPS, but it was disabled for testing. 190 FPS in the hanger on Ultra on 7 year old GPUs seems decent enough.

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CMDR DragonHorn

CMDR DragonHorn
Worst time to upgrade PC, if you ask me, unless you're dirty rich and have stacks of cash you don't know what to throw at.

Upgrading for Odyssey doesn't make any sense in the slightest. It's incomplete, broken, badly optimized, and there's no telling if it will ever be fixed. Horizons, thankfully, still runs great, even on pretty old hardware, and should have everyone covered who has some space itch.
 

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
WR3ND said:
Seems alright to me, or do you mean other than just performance?

If I recall, this was before Odyssey released, or around the same time. Usually I use V-sync at 60 FPS, but it was disabled for testing. 190 FPS in the hanger on Ultra on 7 year old GPUs seems decent enough.

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Yes sorry I should have specified.. It seemed pretty stable fps and performance wise but still had many hang ups and broken instances and poor design choices that never got fixed.. y'know the usual. There were many instances of stuttering and weird things, coloured snakes, inability to wing, broken drops, endless braben tunnels etc. going on but most of them were dealt with. Not all though.
 

Salonica

Salonica
From someone who built his own rig, circa 4k+ spenton it so far, mostly on water coling and blocks, I can run MSFS on ultra with no issues. Elite (not shootymacshootface) runs andf barely taxes the system even with VR. The real question in picking, buying, building, a PC is future proofing. Elite isn't the only kid on the blcok or SDD so you need tomindful of what is coming down the road in terms of tech and companies using that tech. In fairness the last year has been a pain on the GFX card front so, sticking with tried and trusted for now is perfectly acceptable.

I would never build a rig just for one game, and even if I did, Elite would hardly be a contender. It's fantastic in VR, meh in everything else. Can't speak for oddysey as I didn't buy into the hype. (so glad)
 
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