Hardware & Technical Do I need a graphics card to play Elite Dangerous?

Andovar

Andovar
interesting.
I didn't know this level of built-in graphics were available.

My guess is it would work fine, but you probably wont be able to turn the graphics settings up to 11.
 

Krash

Krash
This is what I got about 6 months ago:
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen(TM) 5 1400 Processor, Quad-Core, 3.20GHz
  • Video graphics: NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 1060 (3 GB GDDR5 dedicated);
  • Memory: 16 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM;

I can't find the graphics specs on your rig. But for the above the game runs great, very smooth and fast performance.
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
It'll play the game well at 720p. You might be able to squeeze 1080p out of it at the lowest settings and get a playable framerate, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Make sure you get as much RAM at the highest frequency you can afford, preferably in dual channel - Ryzen chips really benefit from fast RAM, and it will impact on your FPS.
 

Clifra Jones

Clifra Jones
You would be better off buying a dedicated gaming laptop. You will thank yourself later. While that will run the game on minimum settings you will not be satisfied with that.

If you shop around you can find some good deals. I got a great deal on a 17” MSI for my grandson last Xmas. It was still $1100 but that’s a good price. You can save if you opt for the 15” screen.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
Looking at the specs I think that your video card will be more than fine. Certainly in ED's high quality setting, Windows borderless at 1920x1080 with another monitor for ED support websites or the Forum. Short of the limits on your Internet connection, lags at sometimes in the Frontier servers, and your girlfriend or favorite pet jumping into your lap at a critical game moment you will be OK! Everything will be smooth and even instancing with other live players will work on your end versus maybe their settings are too high. If ultimate resolution, going to VR and other options is your goal than you are spending too little on this PC. Start out at £1500 ($2000.00 USA) to get there.

I'd also be concerned with the 8Gb of RAM memory and would suggest 16Gb. I've tracked my PC memory usage when playing ED plus other support websites running 10Gb. I also run ED on a SSD drive for fast loading.
 
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Krash

Krash
Tassier said:
According to a random website vega8 is almost the same performance as a 4870, so minimum spec that is recommended.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/3042/radeon-vega-8

You would definitely enjoy the game more with a better graphics card especially if you want to play in HD.
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I played ED on a minimum rig for the first 2-3 months. Everything is choppy. Functions you can't imagine are hampered such as flying thru the slot, trying to load the srv... Even creating instances takes forever, so I would sit there waiting minutes to drop out of SC and I thought that was normal until I got my new PC. Oh how the angels sang the first few weeks. Now I take it for granted of course.
 

bigity

bigity
I ran it on a 4 year old work latop, Dell Latitude. It wasn't great, and I sure wouldn't want to do combat on that rig, but it works for hauling. You should be ok.

AutoMechanical said:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-Vega-8-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.260180.0.html

Above is a heap of benchmarks for the Vega 8 integrated gpu mostly for notebooks. It would be fine for playing elite on for now but you'll definitely chug frames on planets. I second MottiKhan in recommending a 1050(ti) if you can afford one either now or at a later date when you can.
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1050 Ti will play Elite fine. I manage about 40 fps on planets, but it's good enough at mid-high settings. I much prefer the desktop with the 1070 though.

Any lower and I don't think you could stand to use the SRV.
 
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Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Un1k0rn said:
That's my wet dream. :D

Lucky for me, the 960 is still running the game well.
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You may indeed be lucky. My Razer Pro with a 4Gb 960 now won't even get past the launcher without a variety of hard crashes - and not just in Elite.

Something has borked the Optimus settings I'm sure - but being tied up with a dozen different things just now I just don't have the time or inclination to fix it :(

As for playing on integrated graphics - it was acceptable at 720p as mentioned above. Horizons complicated things and performance gradually got worse to the point it was no fun. That was on old chipsets though, and things may have advanced back to where it's acceptable again. Unfortunately my newer rigs don't have iGPU's to try testing on.
 
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