Hardware & Technical Min Specs

Grimes

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From the posted minimums, I don't appear to have the 'right stuff.'
I have an Athlon 7750 Dual core 2.7 chip running Vista.
4 GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti graphics card with 1Gb.

Will Vista even be supported ?
Will I be able to tone down the settings in order to run this game ?

Thanks
 

MrGambler

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I believe your CPU may be a problem, GPU should be fine, RAM is fine (but more RAM can never hurt! :D ), and vista im not too sure about.. I couldn't see why not. I would personally recommend a CPU upgrade.
 
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willwilliams

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I think I am in a similar situation. I'm considering this, but I have a laptop. I have a AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon (tm) HD Graphiscs 1.90 GHz processor with 6. GB of RAM. I'm willing to live with reduced settings, but is this even possible?
 

Bazil

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Grimes said:
Is anyone running Vista ?

Thanks, Grimes
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Interestingly, I've just found a post in another thread where someone has managed to run E : D successfully on Vista although it sounds like they did something to reduce the number of processes it runs in the background.

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Grimes said:
From the posted minimums, I don't appear to have the 'right stuff.'
I have an Athlon 7750 Dual core 2.7 chip running Vista.
4 GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti graphics card with 1Gb.
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The best processor you can fit in AM2+ sockets is the phenom ii 940be (3GHz, quad-core). Usually go for between £30 and 40 on ebay.
 

Borgkube

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Grimes said:
From the posted minimums, I don't appear to have the 'right stuff.'
I have an Athlon 7750 Dual core 2.7 chip running Vista.
4 GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti graphics card with 1Gb.

Will Vista even be supported ? - Not officially, its W7 and 8. But most, (but not all), W7 games will run on Vista.
Will I be able to tone down the settings in order to run this game ? - Yes.

Thanks
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I suspect you biggest problem is the Athlon CPU. My last machine was Athlon, and I occasionally found games that just wouldn't run on it. I've never had a problem running games on Intel. Since ED is a Win.32 game and your Vista is 32bit, it would be a waste of money to buy more RAM. 32Bit windows can't see or use more than 4Gb. Frankly, I wish you had a graphics card with 2Gb and 4Gb would be better. A 1Gb card is a little lightweight. :):D
 

Surfinjo

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There is a similar discussion on this issue going on on Elite's page on Facebook.

I will point out that Frontier has said the current specs are higher than the final version will be. The final, for example will allow XP for instance.

If you are thinking of buying a new machine, wait till the final comes out. For that matter, wait till January and get what you need in the sales.

If you fancy going over to a desktop, may I suggest you buy the best MB you can afford, with a good 850W PSU and a case which can take the latest big sized graphics cards. Try to get an MB that has built in graphics.

I suggest this because word is the next big innovation in graphics cards may arrive soon. By doing this this way, you can get the best of everything.

Incidentally, buy a 250Gb SSD. 1Tb may seem the businesses, but you rarely use it all and loosing the whole lot should it crash is very sad. :D

Elite will be around for a good while if some of its players are anything to go by. It never too late to join in.
 

Bazil

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Surfinjo said:
I will point out that Frontier has said the current specs are higher than the final version will be. The final, for example will allow XP for instance.

If you are thinking of buying a new machine, wait till the final comes out. For that matter, wait till January and get what you need in the sales.
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Have you seen any indication as to when the recommended minimums for the release version will be publicised?
 

Surfinjo

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Bazil said:
Have you seen any indication as to when the recommended minimums for the release version will be publicised?
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No, sadly.

I know something is supposed to be released in mid December, but what that will be exactly is probably too risky to guess. I made that mistake when the first version was released.

I think we can fee confident though. It would be utter insanity for Frontier to make Elite so exclusive that only those with the most powerful kit could play. But like, I suspect, many others, I just wish they were a bit more forthcoming with information.
 

Bazil

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The reason I asked was because there seem to be a fair few threads popping up asking if certain specs will be OK for the playing E:D when it is released. It comes out a month today, that's a reasonable time for thinking about it.
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To be honest I think the old "Computer build to run E:D" thread at 170 pages is too big and out of date, I think a new thread of "PC build to run E:D release version" is needed. Its perhaps too early for it yet until the final release requirements are publicised. I'll let an admin decide and open the thread.
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Bazil said:
The reason I asked was because there seem to be a fair few threads popping up asking if certain specs will be OK for the playing E:D when it is released. It comes out a month today, that's a reasonable time for thinking about it.
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To be honest I think the old "Computer build to run E:D" thread at 170 pages is too big and out of date, I think a new thread of "PC build to run E:D release version" is needed. Its perhaps too early for it yet until the final release requirements are publicised. I'll let an admin decide and open the thread.
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With the news that there will, after all, be no offline mode. it is probably not going to come as much of a surprise to most of us if many other features are to be abandoned as well.

My game is currently unplayable because it crashes each time I access the Galaxy Map. Ticket outstanding since Oct. Crash reports with each occurrence.

Snad
 

Bait

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Seems like the final requirements might not be too bad.
I've been running just fine on my laptop at full res. The thing usually gets it's butt handed to it by the likes of Skyrim (crashing, overheating, etc.).

Asus N53sv - 2.0 i7, 8gb ram, geForce 540M 1gb dedicated. Just opted for SSD but not seeing a huge difference in game play / load times.
 

Bazil

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That's what I've noticed from following these threads over the last year. More people with mid-end machinery have been getting better results than even in the early Betas.
 

Surfinjo

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My setup is 4.2Gb quad core, 3Gb RAM, Asus GTE 750 graphics card. My Connection is 60 cable broadband.

I have to say, I'm quickly loosing faith that this project will be anywhere near to the original specs. Offline playing has been abandoned. There doesn't seem to be any resolution to the crashing issues, my own ticket has remained unanswered since late Oct. As for running on XP, that would seem unlikely.

All very sad really, given that Frontier are not being very forthcoming with information. I still think Frontier would have been better concentrating on the structure of the game, leaving the pretty graphics for later updates. But it's their company.
 
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