Famerate optimizations Beta 1

sinsro

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I am currently traveling and got to test ED on a laptop. It is pretty fast, with a dedicated nVidia graphics card (GT 650M), but it struggles with running the game on highest settings.

So far I have experimented a bit by turning off antialiasing, disabling lens flare and reducing the resolution a lot. Still feels quite jerky.

Anyone got tips to what settings contribute the most to your framerate, while having the least impact on visuals?
 

blacky75

blacky75
maybe I'm wrong, but at a certain point, you won't be able anymore to consolidate high FPS rate AND full details... there will be choices to make somewhere, so the AND becomes OR somewhere...
Maybe overclocking the Graphcard a bit?
 

Hamerstein

Hamerstein
sinsro said:
I am currently traveling and got to test ED on a laptop. It is pretty fast, with a dedicated nVidia graphics card (GT 650M), but it struggles with running the game on highest settings.

So far I have experimented a bit by turning off antialiasing, disabling lens flare and reducing the resolution a lot. Still feels quite jerky.

Anyone got tips to what settings contribute the most to your framerate, while having the least impact on visuals?
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Honestly I'm not surprised, the 650m GT isn't that powerful a card. Running at max settings is thrashing it. Try turning off or reducing shadows.
What I'd suggest is setting it to minimum settings with the lowest resolution you can and still read text etc. See how it plays there, raise the resolution until it's as good as you can use without performance issues. Then tweak other features to pretty things up, though you may have to trade off some resolution to do so.
 

xyphic

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The GT650m isn't too bad, and as long as you have a decent fan in your lappy it should overclock by 5-10% to give you the same sort of performance as a GT660m.

The best way to increase performance should be to reduce resolution. If changing options isn't helping, maybe the bottleneck isn't the GPU -- what processor does your laptop have?
 

FoxTwo

FoxTwo
Well at least you can run it on a laptop. I'm stuck at work and I thought I might as well give it a try, seeing as I've read some threads about it working on laptops before on Alpha and Premium Betas.

Alas, I have to struggle to control my anticipation. I can't play it on my office laptop. ED launches fine. I can mess with options and settings, but I can NOT launch into the cockpit view at all. Something about unable to initialise renderer.

My laptop has no newer graphic drivers than those from 2011 and my DirectX is latest available (June 2010). Dropping graphics down to absolute minimum with bells and whistles all OFF did not help.

So all I can see is a spinning Sidewinder, then CRASH!

But hey, I can play it on my PC at home in 3 hours... (I hope)
 

Steve 67

Steve 67
Hamerstein said:
Honestly I'm not surprised, the 650m GT isn't that powerful a card. Running at max settings is thrashing it. Try turning off or reducing shadows.
What I'd suggest is setting it to minimum settings with the lowest resolution you can and still read text etc. See how it plays there, raise the resolution until it's as good as you can use without performance issues. Then tweak other features to pretty things up, though you may have to trade off some resolution to do so.
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This is good advice OP :)
 

Philip Coutts

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Philip Coutts
Hamerstein said:
Honestly I'm not surprised, the 650m GT isn't that powerful a card. Running at max settings is thrashing it. Try turning off or reducing shadows.
What I'd suggest is setting it to minimum settings with the lowest resolution you can and still read text etc. See how it plays there, raise the resolution until it's as good as you can use without performance issues. Then tweak other features to pretty things up, though you may have to trade off some resolution to do so.
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Yup, start with this before you go doing anything else, solid advice
 

Steve50

Steve50
Sorry man but that's pretty much an obsolete gpu.

I run a 650 GTX and that's pretty much obsolete too, I have to play ED on all the lowest settings just to get playable fps. :(
 

sinsro

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Steve50 said:
Sorry man but that's pretty much an obsolete gpu.

I run a 650 GTX and that's pretty much obsolete too, I have to play ED on all the lowest settings just to get playable fps. :(
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Sadly, that appears to be true. I have tried a lot of settings, including everything at lowest quality and as low resolution as I can without in in game text being impossible to read, but it is still quite jerky.

My laptop can run many games smoothly at the same resolution, for example Far Cry 3. I think that game has much more details, yet ED is struggling on my system. So hopefully the 3D engine ED uses will get some optimization overhaul at the end.
 

Darth Krayt

Darth Krayt
I'm running a laptop with a GTX680M. FPS in space has increased from around 60 to 80. Inside stations it's still around 25FPS.

I used to get a drop to single digits near planets with rings, now getting around 40FPS.

[Edit] Running on default "High" settings at 1920x1080
 

xyphic

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sinsro said:
Sadly, that appears to be true. I have tried a lot of settings, including everything at lowest quality and as low resolution as I can without in in game text being impossible to read, but it is still quite jerky.

My laptop can run many games smoothly at the same resolution, for example Far Cry 3. I think that game has much more details, yet ED is struggling on my system. So hopefully the 3D engine ED uses will get some optimization overhaul at the end.
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Just tried with my work laptop (GT765m) and I get ~40 fps dropping to ~30 fps when a station is in view (everything on full). However, I've noticed a distinct stutter every second or two. I'll retest on my home laptop later and see if the stutter is also there.
 

Mr_Jim

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AMD 5770 1gb card. Also noticed the "stutter" once every 2-3 secs. Dont know if gfx or lag. Will send a ticket when im back from work(or make a short video). It didnt stutter/hang before. Everything on low (or medium where low isnt available).
 

sinsro

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Mr_Jim said:
AMD 5770 1gb card. Also noticed the "stutter" once every 2-3 secs. Dont know if gfx or lag. Will send a ticket when im back from work(or make a short video). It didnt stutter/hang before. Everything on low (or medium where low isnt available).
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I get this stutter too, especially inside the space station. I thought maybe my laptop was overheating or something of that nature, but if more people experience it, I suppose it is a bug.
 

MrFahrenheit

MrFahrenheit
A 650m is slightly more powerful than a desktop GTS450.

ED is pretty CPU intensive too.

You can buy a cheap desktop rig for around £450 that will play it pretty well, I just built a friend one, 4.2Ghz quad core, 8GB 1600Mhz ram, R280x 3gb GPU and plays maxed out at1920x1080p 4xAA 8xAF at a solid 60fps, infact it seems its limited to 60FPS despite turning Vsync off.

or

My own laptop
2.5Ghz quadcore
8GB ram
GTX860m (GTX750Ti desktop equivalent) 1600x900 13.3inch medium / high settings no AA 8xAF gets 40-60 fps

cost £600 from www.pcspecialist.co.uk
 

MajorEpeen

MajorEpeen
I also echo the advice that maximum settings is too much for the OP's specs.

As people have already pointed out, craptop CPU's and GPU's are not as strong as their desktop counterparts and have additional issues with excess heat and thermal throttling.
 
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