As title says I'm currently playing Elite Dangerous with a Graphics card below minimum requirement. Game mostly works fine with a bit of freezing. 'm going to upgrade card soon, but am enjoying Elite Dangerous and want to upgrade to Horizons. Will current card handle it or is Horizons even more graphics intensive? Card is Nvidia Geforce 9600 Gt believe it or not
Hardware & Technical Currently playing Elite Dangerous on sub par G/card, will it still work with Horizons?
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No, it will not. Horizons requires at least 2GB VRAM (your card will be at 512MB or even less) and DX11 feature level (yours is at DX10).
I assume the rest of your system is similarly vintage?
I assume the rest of your system is similarly vintage?
As they say, intel doesn't play games
I assume the rest of your system is similarly vintage?
FE2 is also similarly vintage
I think the answer you are looking for is nope.
If the rest of your system is as old as that card just upgrading the GPU isn't really going to improve your prospects by much either.
No, it will not. Horizons requires at least 2GB VRAM (your card will be at 512MB or even less) and DX11 feature level (yours is at DX10).
I assume the rest of your system is similarly vintage?
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Funnily enough I've had no problems with EVE Online or most of the Civ games. I'm upgrading card, just wasn't sure if could get away with Horizons for a couple of weeks. Thanks for responses
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I have a spare AMD 270x which should run horizons if you want one. It's not very powerful but it is far better then what you have.
Thank you for your reply and offer Max Factor. I'm gathering from your offer it will do the job, at least in the interim? Let me know here or by if you like. Cheers
Yep, it will do the job. I can send it to you depending where you are based. I am in the UK.
The R9 270x has higher power requirements (two 6-pin connectors putting it roughly in the "225W class" compared to under 100W for the gf9600 GT), better check if your power supply is still good for that. You'd want at least a good-quality 500W PSU.
This is true. Didn't think of that.
The SU is 450w on this machine
One might think there was a meeting were an agreement was made to boost demand for high end graphics cards
Still trying to figure out what exactly happened to my gtx5800 since its works but with a reduced screen viewing . This suggests some memory connection was damaged. The previous once mighty gtx8800 only runs the core game. This is as much to do with shades support. A lower cost newer card might be the better upgrade option.
Still trying to figure out what exactly happened to my gtx5800 since its works but with a reduced screen viewing . This suggests some memory connection was damaged. The previous once mighty gtx8800 only runs the core game. This is as much to do with shades support. A lower cost newer card might be the better upgrade option.
Not all PSU's are created equal, but if a decent brand name, 450W should be fine (i was using a Seasonic G-450w (Gold rated) until a power failure spike killed it).
The biggest concern you may have is general 'bottle-necking' in your overall system, so even getting a better GPU (like that R9 270x) might not give as much performance boost as it should.
I have an old system (was my main gaming system until a few years back) that also had a 9600GT as the main GPU, and the rest of that system was very old (AMD FX-90 socket 939, AX8 mobo, Windows XP etc), so much so i needed a brand new build to see proper FPS improvement in my games. A better GPU would not have helped that much overall. So keep the age of the rest of your system in mind also.