Hi NoiseCrime, I am pleased you are happy with your new MSI GTX970 - same card as mine
I think its partly caused by all the variables during testing. IMHO one of the biggest variables is what people consider playability is very subjective.
So in solo, sat in a hanger, with an Eagle I get roughly :
Graphics preset low = 75 fps (rock solid)
Graphics preset mid = 63 fps
Graphics preset high = 56 fps
As you mentioned I can choose high and then turn down some options. I find rather than rock solid 75 fps it does hit 75 fps but a lot more 'floaty'. Some people don't mind that but at the moment personally I am happy playing with preset low, I guess there is no right or wrong. Hopefully as ED optimises and / or Rift direct mode works well - we can have high with rock solid 75 fps
Hi Mark,
Yeah the MSI GTX970 seems pretty good, really want to do some benchmarking but first I need to set up the PC properly, partitioning and stuff and sadly i'm too busy with real-life stuff.
I agree with 'playability' being subjective, that is something which will be hard to get away from. Again I see the occasional post here from people describing their experiences and I can't help but feel that for some reason their DK2 or system can't be set up correctly as its so different to my own experience. In some of these cases their may well be a single incorrect setting somewhere either in the DK2 or Elite (for example I messed around with the separation value in the graphic options, before realising it was meant to be controlled by the dk2 and set to match your IPD, messing with it caused chromatic aberration and a less than optimal quality), for others though I suspect it is down to personnel preference and expectations.
Having said that even your own stats don't match with my own, though i'm guessing when you say 'high' you mean literally applying that setting and not changing anything? That would explain the drop to 56 fps, where as I seem to get 75 fps without AO/AA and shadows on low, but with DSR x2 (though it can drop to 65 on occasions). In addition to this you then have different ships, different space stations, different things happening in space stations ( saw a ship jam yesterday with three all trying to dock/leave at the same time
). Its why I've felt Frontier really should put some effort into making a benchmark test scene, something that can be repeated accurately and used to judge the relative merits between systems, graphic options, ships, stations etc. It would also mean the game would be likely used for benchmarking on websites giving more exposure to it in the future.
Ultimately I think all we can do in terms of bench marking is to use as similar game set ups as possible, report actual fps and accept that unless its easily hitting 75 fps, what one person might count as acceptable may not be to someone else, but at least we'll have actual numbers to compare.
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I'm one of the ones that STILL can't get the rift to work in extended desktop mode so I have to use direct to rift... I hope they don't break it in beta 3....
At the risk of repeating yourself, care to outline what the problem is specifically and what you've tried?
I know on my old PC I had to fiddle around quite a bit to make it work. I think from memory in the end I actually went and changed various options in the custom/config of ED as I couldn't get it to work via in game UI. On my new PC I had none of those problems, instead I couldn't get it too even see the rift as a device for longest time and when I did, I don't know what I actually did to make it work, other than pulling leads out, putting them back in or restarting the machine.
I guess one thing to clarify is can you get the rift working in extended mode with other games?
