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Lestat

Banned
Lestat
I am in a strange spot. I am in Alpha in 3 games. Each game are all about space. 2 space sims Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen and real time strategy game Star Ruler 2. Each game will be demanding in there own right. The space sims. Will be graphics will be the priority. But Star Ruler 2 will require high end cpu.

Star ruler 1 could slow down even the high cpu and make it run at 100%

Now I have multiple choices on what to do.

1. Rebuild my current laptop. That has Dual ati 5870 I can switch to Dual ati 7970. I would have to modify a few things like my power supply but nothing I can not handle.

2. Wait and see what Elite Dangerous will need hope my current setup will run it until Star Citizen comes out. Build around Star Citizen.

3. Wait until I get the spec for Star Ruler 2. Build around both Star Citizen and Star Ruler 2.

Note my Laptop so far handles Star Citizen Hanger Module just fine.

If I had a choice I would build my system around Dual Xeon i7 8 core and 3 Geforce titans. But I lack the room for such a machine. So I am stuck with modifying a laptop or buying a laptop.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
drew said:
That sounds very impressive. Trouble is, I have no idea what it means.

Dammit, Jim! I'm a writer, not a computer science professional!

Cheers,

Drew.
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Sent you a PM. :)

As to building your own system, it's really not that complicated any more. With just a bit of research (or asking for help on forums like this) you can build yourself a nice system by pretty much snapping together a bunch of components and then installing an OS. NewEgg and the like have made speccing out your dream system really easy.
 

Sparticus

Sparticus
I recall the Add's for when DOOM 3 was released - it went something like this - will you by a new PC this year - just to play Doom ?

My answer - was yes, and I did buy a new PC just to play Doom.

That was 2004.

That PC = Long retired.

I then bought a new PC in 2009 - which is the one I am currently using - and I have no problems buying a new PC in 2014 - just so that I can experience Elite Dangerous to it's full potential.

It's seems that my patterns are a new PC every 5 years - which I think is getting good life from the hardware.
 

Cody

Cody
Sparticus said:
... a new PC every 5 years - which I think is getting good life from the hardware.
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Sounds about right... I'm on my fourth PC since '94. Finding the cash for #5 next year will be very tricky though, so I'm hoping my current machine can handle Elite: Dangerous at a reasonable level.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
It's been 10 years that I have my PC which is very fast for Internet and office automation and more than adequate for watching videos. But next year, I need to change ..
 

izzy

izzy
I think I will change my gfx card for the beta. I have a NVidia 9800Gtx, I play Diablo 3 with high graphics easily ... but I think it is not enough for E: D :rolleyes:
 

Oss133

Oss133
Cody said:
You should be on the stage - or do I mean the scaffold!
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Unfortunately, my son has inherited my sense of punage. He recently sent me a message that said,

I have just been to see a theatre production about puns.

It turned out to just be a play on words.
 

Nagual

Nagual
oss133 said:
Unfortunately, my son has inherited my sense of punage. He recently sent me a message that said,

I have just been to see a theatre production about puns.

It turned out to just be a play on words.
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I'm fairly sure it was on a stage.
 

Riandor

Riandor
Calebe said:
I am anxiously awaiting to hear the specs for minimum, suggested, and optimal as many are. I think I have optimal covered except for the video card, an older GTX580 currently, but waiting on the 800 series to upgrade.

I am hoping for a 64 bit version of the game to make use of the 16 gig of ram I have installed, and push the boundaries as they suggested. A 32 bit executable if possible for those not upgraded yet to a modern OS, but the more future proof the better.

Calebe
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64bit is key for me too along with proper multithreading and use of 4 or more cores.
 

schmerg

schmerg
insanephoton said:
To be honest, I don't want to know the minimum spec that will just about run Elite on the lowest settings. I want to know the minimum spec tha twill do the game justice. Perhaps FD could give the spec of the machines they use for testing.
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I asked this after the demo movie, thinking it would be a decent "this is no guarantee but just happens to be what we were using" indication but got a "not yet" reply ... http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=155012&postcount=24

I agree with the idea of a (sticky) thread of "Offical announcements about hardware spec" with a single post "nothing to say yet" - at least I could subscribe to that...
 

Abysinth

Abysinth
I've just had a thought, what if FD are watching all these threads to see what we've actually got and tuning the spec of "E: D" to that?

in which case, I have a <insert dream machine spec here>...

:D

And another thought:

What if they'll withhold the spec until the end of Alpha testing so that Elite can be tested on a wide-ish range of hardware
 
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Nagual

Nagual
Abysinth said:
I've just had a thought, what if FD are watching all these threads to see what we've actually got and tuning the spec of "E: D" to that?

in which case, I have a <insert dream machine spec here>...

:D

And another thought:

What if they'll withhold the spec until the end of Alpha testing so that Elite can be tested on a wide-ish range of hardware
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I have a ZX 81 with a 16k RAM pack... :D


EDIT: I can remember playing 3D space invaders on that machine.. lol ... ahhh them were the days
 

Rattatay

Rattatay
Pretty sure Frontier can scale the game according to most midrange (and up) computer out there by march 2014. Alot can be scaled dow in terms of graphics, draw distance etc.

My current "new" computer looks like this:

Motherboad: ASUS Z87-DELUXE, Socket-1150
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 Processor
RAM: Kingston DDR3 1333MHz 16GB CL9
Graphics: ASUS GeForce GTX 760 2GB PhysX CUDA
OS disk: Intel® SSD 520 Series 120GB 2.5"
Storage: WD Desktop Green 2TB

Total in £: 900.
I update the list monthly to accommodate for changes until I buy the final machine just before game release.
 

Abysinth

Abysinth
Nagual said:
I have a ZX 81 with a 16k RAM pack... :D


EDIT: I can remember playing 3D space invaders on that machine.. lol ... ahhh them were the days
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Wasn't that black and white graphics? I really don't want Elite: Dangerous to be in black and white :eek:
 

jamieboo

J
Hello
I built my system back in '09 and it's still performing pretty well.

i7 920 (at stock speed - 2.67ghz)
AMD HD5850
24Gb RAM (need plenty of RAM for my music production)

I'm hoping I won't need to upgrade too much - but I'm quite happy to replace the graphics card.
My question is what card - looking at todays AMD's - is likely to start bottlenecking my current processor at stock speed?

Thanks folks
 

Bikky

Bikky
jamieboo said:
Hello
I built my system back in '09 and it's still performing pretty well.

i7 920 (at stock speed - 2.67ghz)
AMD HD5850
24Gb RAM (need plenty of RAM for my music production)

I'm hoping I won't need to upgrade too much - but I'm quite happy to replace the graphics card.
My question is what card - looking at todays AMD's - is likely to start bottlenecking my current processor at stock speed?

Thanks folks
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buy yourself a new descent heat sink (not the stock crap) I've taken my i5 3.2ghz to 4.2ghz with the use of a Gelid tranquillo (or tranquillo 2) inside a nice airy Gigabyte 3d Aurora with mesh side not perspex

that should stop bottleneck.
 

jamieboo

J
Thanks for the response Bikky

I never used a stock heatsink - I use a Noctua NH-U12P. Really good and never had a problem with it. So I'm probably good to go as far as a bit of OCing goes.
But just as a matter of reference I'd like to know what GPU would bottleneck my CPU at stock speeds.

Thanks
 
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