Help needed, technical question regarding graphics

Jim Panse · Apr 16, 2015

Hi fellow Cmdr,

a buddy of me wanna take a look into Elite. But he is not sure his laptop can handle the game. He runs a I5-3230m with a Geforce 710m on Windows 8.1. RAM 8 GB DDR3 and SSD.

Has this machine enough power for fluid gameplay ?

Thanks Jim

BIGPUNGED2000 · Apr 17, 2015

YES i run this game on a dell e6400 dual core 2.80 mhz 4gb ram ddr2

Morbad · Apr 17, 2015

710M is pretty weak, but you should be able to get smooth gameplay out of it as long you aren't expecting all the eye candy.

S.H.A.D.O · Apr 17, 2015

Sorry but a 710m really isn't going to cut it and if it runs at all it'll be at very low fps and moreso in a station which will make the game not fun to play.

sorry man, advise your mate to buy a cheap desktop.

Jim Panse · Apr 17, 2015

Ist not the best chip i know. But eye candy is not that important for my Buddy. But thanks for your answers. Helped a lot !

Have a nice weekend...

Jim

Insomnia · Apr 17, 2015

Jim Panse said:
I5-3230m with a Geforce 710m on Windows 8.1. RAM 8 GB DDR3 and SSD.

Has this machine enough power for fluid gameplay ?

Nope.
It's not about eye candy. Sure he could play at the lowest possible graphic settings but it will still stutter.
And if he plays on low resolutions, and/or even 75% resolution scaling, reading texts won't be any fun.
.
Get a desktop.

Chris M Fortune · Apr 17, 2015

Insomnia said:
Nope.
It's not about eye candy. Sure he could play at the lowest possible graphic settings but it will still stutter.
And if he plays on low resolutions, and/or even 75% resolution scaling, reading texts won't be any fun.
.
Get a desktop.

Absolutely agree with this, I have recently upgraded my GCard from a GT610 (assume its going to be similar spec to your friends 710m ) and yes the graphics were better but so was every other aspect of the game. I didn't realize how much the choppy graphics were actually affecting the gameplay until I did this.

Bokugo · Apr 17, 2015

You can get a program called JetBoost that closes out a bunch of unnecessary background programs and apps and dedicates the cpu to performance (you can customize it to leave certain things alone). It works extremely well for me and I never game without it. It "says" 38% cpu increase.....and I'll believe it.

Without it on in Planetside 2, I start to drop frames around 100+ troops and a few vehicles. With it on I can handle around 200 with slightly more vehicles and still no issues (though you start throwing in flocks of galaxies and liberators and things start to slow down) And ED is MUCH more optimized than PS2.

If you really want to squeeze out performance I highly recommend this.

bofhenator · Apr 17, 2015

Jim Panse said:
Hi fellow Cmdr,

a buddy of me wanna take a look into Elite. But he is not sure his laptop can handle the game. He runs a I5-3230m with a Geforce 710m on Windows 8.1. RAM 8 GB DDR3 and SSD.

Has this machine enough power for fluid gameplay ?

Thanks Jim

Perhaps try it on his laptop with your account before he spends any money?

Inhumierer · Apr 17, 2015

A desktop is not the answer if you need to travel. Please tell me how to put my desktop and the monitor inside my backpack when riding my bike

Not sure about the differences between the mobile GPUs, but FYI: ED runs fine on my ASUS Zenbook UX303LN-R4142H.
Specs so far IIRC: Intel Core i7-4510U (2,0 GHz), Nvidia GeForce 840M. ED running on full HD low quality doing approx 30 fps. Stutters a bit inside stations, a bit more when in belts or similar. Fits well for trading, exploring, mining and little BH when not in RES.
I could reduce the resolution to get higher fps or quality, maybe I'll try and experiment next holidays. I'm doing lots of coordinate calculation ATM, so I need to switch between ED and webbrowser frequently. When running ED at a lower resolution, display takes some time to init, so I prefer desktop and ED at the same resolution.
Right now I'm statisfied as it is, so no need to change.

Stiffmaister · Apr 17, 2015

I think ED will run decent with thes spec...Try downloading the client on his laptop..logging in with your account and install the combat demo...In the first combat tutorial mission you will fight in the asteroids belt...look how it will handle this...

Edit: I tried ED on my laptop...It is an I3 with integrated vga...it runs on min settings at low resolution..your hardware (spec. the vga card) is sensibily better than mine...

Elan · Apr 17, 2015

It runs just fine on my laptop when I'm away from home.

I run it at 1080p at Low settings on a 675M GPU, 8GB ram and an i7.

30 FPS is the lowest is see in stations. Smooth enough elsewhere.

hoopy · Apr 17, 2015

Try it with your account but I guess it'll be fine. I have an i7 laptop which has a gaming card but it's disabled (it doesn't play nicely with Windows 8.1) so it falls back to the built in Intel HD graphics. It's fine for trading but not for combat. He's at least got a gaming card in there which should be a fair bit better.

Canurunit.com may help. It says my laptop can't run it when it can so it may be a bit pessimistic. Seems my in built graphics are an AMD Radeon HD 8750M with only 512MB of RAM.

Ancipital · Apr 17, 2015

bofhenator said:
Perhaps try it on his laptop with your account before he spends any money?

Yep, exactly what I was about to suggest- this avoids all doubt and handwavery. Good stuff.

Jim Panse · Apr 17, 2015

bofhenator said:
Perhaps try it on his laptop with your account before he spends any money?

Thats an good idea. We will try this. Thanks for the tip...

markkuk · Apr 17, 2015

The 3DMark score of 710m is less than half of the cards considered minimum for Elite: Dangerous, so you can't expect it to be usable. (Yes, I'm aware of the limitations of synthetic benchmarking).
The minimum level for mobile GPUs would be something like GeForce 570M or Mobility Radeon HD 5870.