GTX Titan struggling with Horizons & DK2?

Katkon

K
My Titan is the original card released nearly 3 years ago. It's served me well pre-Horizons, allowing me to max pretty much everything fotrsmooth gameplay (except shadows, blur and supersampling - set to 1.0). On 1920x1080 resolution the game was pretty smooth in the DK2, and impeccable on a normal screen.
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Fast forward to Horizons and in order to get smooth gameplay on a planet surface I basically have to set everything to low - with the exception of draw distance which I can still max out, along with the setting that maxes out my card's "work" to create terrain. Does that sound right? Is Horizons *that* GPU-intensive?
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The rest of the rig is a 3570K overclocked to 4.5Ghz, 16GB RAM, Win 7 Pro running from an SSD. If I need to get a new card to increase performance I will, but I'm not sure how much of a gain I'd see if I went to a GTX 980 Ti from an original Titan in ED w/ DK2. Any/all opinions welcomed!
 

Raxxla

Raxxla
The biggest adjustment you can make for yourself in the game is to lower the shadow quality. It's the biggest factor in adjusting your framerate. I noticed when I was playing it had defaulted to Ultra.
 

AndreyATGB

AndreyATGB
A 980 Ti will destroy a Titan, not quite twice as fast but it's not that far. I can get 75 constant with a mix of settings but notably shadows on medium. Terrain makes no difference for me so I left it on ultra as it looks much better. This is with a 980 Ti. Supersampling isn't possible on the surface though, at least not the moon I was testing on.
 

Oculus

Oculus
titan x sli here and at times still juddering. I have supersampling on at 1.5 x and reduced hmd quality to 40percent ish and that solved majority of judder on surface but not all. Its definitely hard on your graphics card!!!!
 

Katkon

K
AndreyATGB said:
A 980 Ti will destroy a Titan, not quite twice as fast but it's not that far. I can get 75 constant with a mix of settings but notably shadows on medium. Terrain makes no difference for me so I left it on ultra as it looks much better. This is with a 980 Ti. Supersampling isn't possible on the surface though, at least not the moon I was testing on.
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Just did a spot of research and you would appear to be right. A GTX 980 Ti SC+ has amazing performance vs my original Titan. A local Fry's has one in stock - may pick one up this week.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Just a quick note for some people having issues.

1. Blur does nothing except when docked and looking at the starport services screen (blurs the background behind main screen)

2. 970 or higher GPU's seems to run better with horizons on the 358.70 drivers - I followed a few people's advice and downgraded from the 390.xx, the difference was huge.

3. Turn headlights off in the SUV, it doesn't seem to be optimised, frame rates drop quite a bit when switched on.

I did some lengthy tests with various drivers (clean installs with driver cleaner) 358.70 definitely seems to be the sweet spot to run ultra with no judder on my 980TI
 
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