Finally upgrading PC !! - What to Expect ?

[CMDR Flaxton]

After 6 years of hard labour, my 8 core AMD machine has finally given up the ghost. TBH when running ED it had every fan running flat out and sounded like a small aircraft taking off haha.
It ran ED fairly well in VR on a CV1 somewhere around the medium settings on at 1080ti. I think the MB, Processor and Memory were bottleneck in the system as upgrading last year from a 970 to the 1080ti didn't give me the huge jump in performance I was expecting.

I have now ordered a new MB with a i9-9900k (3.6GHz) processors & 32gb of DDR4 3200 memory. I will be using my existing SSD and 1080ti. I don't intend on overclocking anything, just use the equipment as it is.

My question is, what sort of VR setting should I be expecting with this new rig ? I am hoping at least high VR setting.

If any of you guys and girls have a similar set up and can give me a heads up on your settings and what you are achieving I would be most grateful.

Its been several months since I last played ED so very excited about getting back in the black !!

CMDR Flaxton

 

[sneakygloworm]

I've just updated CPU to Ryzen 3900x (from 1600x) which is comparable to 9900k. With my old GTX 1080, I saw a fair performance boost. Moving around in stations is silky smooth now. You'll be able to run on high/ultra with your kit. SS at 1. And HMD quality at 1.75. Shadows on ultra do test my system a bit with the 1080 in certain situations but I was pretty impressed with the increase.

 

[Kemo]

After 6 years of hard labour, my 8 core AMD machine has finally given up the ghost. TBH when running ED it had every fan running flat out and sounded like a small aircraft taking off haha.
It ran ED fairly well in VR on a CV1 somewhere around the medium settings on at 1080ti. I think the MB, Processor and Memory were bottleneck in the system as upgrading last year from a 970 to the 1080ti didn't give me the huge jump in performance I was expecting.

I have now ordered a new MB with a i9-9900k (3.6GHz) processors & 32gb of DDR4 3200 memory. I will be using my existing SSD and 1080ti. I don't intend on overclocking anything, just use the equipment as it is.

My question is, what sort of VR setting should I be expecting with this new rig ? I am hoping at least high VR setting.

If any of you guys and girls have a similar set up and can give me a heads up on your settings and what you are achieving I would be most grateful.

Its been several months since I last played ED so very excited about getting back in the black !!

CMDR Flaxton

I'd be very interested in knowing how this turns out - looking to upgrade later this year (currently have a 1080 and an i5 3750k and 16Gb ram) - so looking to get something closer to your new spec.

 

[CMDR Flaxton]

Sorry it's been a while coming but the results are in :-
Wonderful improvements in both graphics quality and smoothness of motion from my previous machine.

I have the majority of setting on high, SS 1.0 and HMD at 1.75. Movement around stations and planets are totally smooth and testing remains at 90fps in almost every situation I have been in so far. I used to get quite a lot of jitter while looking at mission or passenger boards, this has now gone and seems a lot easier to read as well. I use a light blue filter on the ED Profiler add on which give a much better cockpit display colour and avatars are still almost the right colour.

This improvement has given me a new enthusiasm and really enjoying doing passenger missions in a dolphin. RES sites are also awesome !!

I feel like I have really missed out on things in game as I haven't played much for the last 12 months so have a lot of the new content to explore. So much to discover, where to start lol

CMD Flaxton

 

[BDelacroix]

I'm still running a haswell 4770 without issue.

I did update my computer with a 2080ti and ultra wide screen this year. Have been replacing spinning mass with solid state as well. You should be fine.

 

[Oheck]

Don't know what mobo you went with but your new setup is exactly the upgrade I just did a day ago. Only hassle I have now is the bloody HOTAS binds. Getting some really weird behaviors that I never got before they did that last update that changed up the UI, etc.