Is Graphics Card Good Enough?

[l1lvink]

Hey all,
I'd really like to get ED (especially with this Black Friday sale on), but I'm unsure if my laptop is powerful enough to run it, especially the graphics card.
I have a HP envy m6 which has an AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series graphics card.
Does anyone know if this is good enough to run ED?
Thanks

 

[Lasse B.]

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+7600M+++7600M+Dual

This benchmark allows me to compare your HD7600M GPU with my 780Ti. Let me share my thought process with you.

The 7600 delivers about 10% of the performance of the 780Ti. With the 780Ti I get ~100FPS at 1920x1080 at full details. 10% of 100FPS is 10FPS. Since your resolution of 1366x768 (= 1,049,088 pixels) consists of roughly half the pixels compared to 1920x1080 (= 2,073,600 pixels), you'd be looking at ~20FPS. You could squeeze out a few more FPS if you reduced some of the game's quality settings, making it barely playable.

 

[Kanoshi]

From the FAQ ( https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=74 ):

You can check if your PC will run Elite Dangerous here: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/elite-dangerous/12195/

I checked against the given minimums from that FAQ link (Nvidia GTX 260 and ATI 4870HD) and it seems unlikely that it would run smoothly – I recommend using the above link to double-check.

Against the Nvidia GTX 260: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-260-vs-AMD-Radeon-HD-7600M/3160vsm9552
Against the ATI 4870HD: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/ATI-HD-4870-vs-AMD-Radeon-HD-7600M/m7788vsm9552

 

[Dippy]

Nope not good enough, sorry.

 

[l1lvink]

Damn, thats a real shame. Think I might buy the CD copy in the hopes that I can find some 'cheap' graphics cards sometime. Or wait till I find money

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On that note, does anyone have any recommendations as to where I can find 'cheap' graphics cards?

 

[Brimstone]

The 750 ti is a really good and cheap card that will definitely run this game just fine. It wont to super high settings though... gtx 750ti is about 100ish dollars, depending on what version you get and where you get it from.

 

[CMDR IPL Victim]

Until recently, I'd been using an NVIDIA 650 ti, and I considered that card to be quite capable. Dx12 support, playable frame rate, etc. It was fallout 4 that encouraged me to upgrade the card, not elite.