GTX 1080 settings

Dentifreak

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Hi !

Anyone here have a GTX 1080 and is playing Elite Dangerous ?

Can you share me your settings ? I'm trying to get the best possible graphics but there are so much options...

Do you use SS or HMD quality ? (what's the difference btw ?)

I'm kind of lost with all these settings...

And if you're using Rift, do you play on ASW or you try to keep it at 90 fps ? ASW works really well but when you're moving, your sight is kind of weird/split

thanks
 

Mesolithic

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I think there are too many variables between PC builds to share exact settings, but my approach is as follows:

Pick a setting, such as VR medium which gives a solid 90fps in all situations and then dial things up from there. I start with the settings like environment quality, texture quality and fx, then move to draw distances (if pop-in annoys you).

Finally, I use SS and HMD quality to see if I can dial up the overall sharpness of the image. They stack but essentially, as I understand it, setting both to "1" give you the Elite in the Rifts native resolution. I usually dial up the HMD quality first. Moving these to higher values is what will destroy your frame rate.

Doing this, eventually you will settle on the best image quality which you find playable.

This is how I do it and if I know I an going to bounty hunt in rings for example, I might dial down HMD Quality to maintain frame rate but keep the SFX etc.

Regards

Meso
 
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Kaltern

Kaltern
I find when flying in space, ASW is not really an issue, unless you're one of those who hate ANY visual distortion at all. Then it will be like an aggrivating itch you can't quite reach.

In stations, it very obvious, again, being IN a station, you may not care.

In combat, I don't really notice it at all - too busy :p

Planetside, you're going to guarantee the use of ASW to avoid all the sideeffects of choppy VR. Planetside with other ships just makes it worse.

Getting the settings right is very system dependent, but the main things to play with are HMD, SS, AA, Ambient Occlusion and Shadows. Everything else makes less of a difference.

I turn blur and DOF off, mainly because I don't see the point having those in VR.

HMD settings make text and edges slightly clearer. SS makes all edging less 'crawly'. Getting those two correct will take up a lot of your time. a 1080 cannot handle anything higher than HMD set at 1.5, and SS set at 1.25, and that is VERY borderline to playable in VR. Many people (including me), sacrifice SS in favour of HMD, as it makes text clearer. (I set SS at .85, which is quite low, but it makes a big difference in FPS).

Just set everything to VR Low, then increase those settings mentioned above, while docked, and watch the FPS (Ctrl+F), and make sure it never deviates from 45. That should make most areas of the game smooth enough.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Dentifreak said:
Hi !
Anyone here have a GTX 1080 and is playing Elite Dangerous ?
Can you share me your settings ? I'm trying to get the best possible graphics but there are so much options...
Do you use SS or HMD quality ? (what's the difference btw ?)
I'm kind of lost with all these settings...
And if you're using Rift, do you play on ASW or you try to keep it at 90 fps ? ASW works really well but when you're moving, your sight is kind of weird/split
thanks
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Easiest thing to try first is simply set everything to "Ultra" and see if it runs good. If it does, dilemma solved!

I have a GTX 1080 ACX 3.0, I never touch it. I set the graphics options in-game to "Ultra" and it runs great. The caveat being, my monitor tops out at 1080 @ 60 Hz. o7
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
I've got a 1080 (with an i5 4690k CPU).

For VR (Oculus) I turn off Bloom, Blur, DoF and Ambient Occlusion. I've also turned Anti-Aliasing off. I've got Shadows on High, SS on 1.0 and HMD Quality on 1.25. Everything else is set to its absolute maximum. I've turned down the HUD brightness (to your own preference) and Gamma (until deep space is black rather than a bit washed out). With that I get a steady 90fps everywhere, even on planetary bases and even with ASW turned off (Ctrl+NumPad 1).

For non-VR (with a 60hz 1920x1080p monitor) I believe I've got pretty much everything maxed with SS at 1.0 and HMD quality at 1.75.

If you haven't already then I STRONGLY recommend installing drkaii's EDProfiler which makes accessing these settings (especially two sets of them for VR and non-VR) an absolute doddle.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...er-Robust-Settings-Profiler-Switcher-Detector!
 
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S3B4ST13N

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Dentifreak said:
Hi !

Anyone here have a GTX 1080 and is playing Elite Dangerous ?

Can you share me your settings ? I'm trying to get the best possible graphics but there are so much options...

Do you use SS or HMD quality ? (what's the difference btw ?)

I'm kind of lost with all these settings...

And if you're using Rift, do you play on ASW or you try to keep it at 90 fps ? ASW works really well but when you're moving, your sight is kind of weird/split

thanks
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Absolutely everything on the max possible settings at 1080p. No rift.
SS... dunno, whatever the highest is. 2.0?
Dunno what the difference is.

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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Kaltern said:
Considering we're in the Virtual Reality section, posting stuff regarding NO HMD isn't exactly helpful.
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I think the OP's "and IF you're using Rift" led some of us to wonder if he was interested in both VR and non-VR settings for the 1080 (although perhaps that was just a Vive or Rift question). Anyway, as someone who regularly switches between playing ED in VR and on-screen I see inclusion of non-VR settings as still pertinent. Possibly worth pointing out tho.
 

Dentifreak

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I didn't say "asynchronous image interpolation" is just Rift, I said ASW (asynchronous space warp) is a Rift thing. Which is true.

So, in your words, I was talking about the oculus implementation
 
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MrCrapylean

MrCrapylean
Here are my settings:

HTC VIve
I7 7700K 4.9Ghz, Asus Strix 1080 1.9Ghz, RAM 32GB 3200mhz

SteamVR Supersampling 5.0
SteamVR Async repro ON and Always Repro ON

Ingame SS 0.65 (this is the fps killer), HMD Quality 0.75

Bloom, DOF and Blur Off
Ambient Occlusion low

Im constantly testing to find out a reasonable compromise between fps and quality. Below 70fps its no good.

...going to to test some more...
 

lexsan82

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I have a GTX 1060 on a Razerblade 2016. HTC Vive. For non-VR I set to Ultra. For VR I set VR Ultra then change the SS and HMD quality to 1.0 each. I imagine with a 1080 you can go closer to 1.25 or 1.5 on these settings.
 

NeryK

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I recently upgraded from a 980 to a 1080.
I use "VR ultra" presets, then lower in-game SS to 1.0.
HMD 1.0, SteamVR SS 2.0 (~1.4 before Valve changed the scale).
Beyond that I have a hard figuring out what gives the best results between SteamVR SS and in-game HMD quality.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
I have a 1070 (no "Ti" or anything like that), and here's what I use:

VR Ultra, then tweaked:

SS 0.65, HMD quality 2.0
Blur and AO, off
Bloom on

And the game runs pretty smoothly. Most of the time it's locked at 45 frames per second, relying on ASW to keep your eyes and movement at 90 fps. I find this to be a pretty acceptable compromise. To get a reliable 90 fps, I would have to set the SS/HMD settings closer to 1.0, and the text and other details become a lot less crisp.
 
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