Hardware & Technical New videocard

[pingwrx]

I just purchased a 960 gtx what kind of settings can I expect to be using?

 

[FunGas]

Everything on ultra or maximum, then set FSAA to 1x because it slows everything down.

There's a nice little tutorial somewhere here about increasing the texture memory which is well worth doing...

 

[pingwrx]

Thanks will try the texture memory thing out.

 

[FunGas]

The info is in the second half of the video at the bottom of this post, again, well worth doing...

 

[Morbad]

That's texture size, not texture memory. Increasing texture size will eat more available memory, which you cannot increase.

I actually had to reduce some texture sizes as increased game resolution (or SSAA) beyond a certain level because the game could not allocate enough memory for everything and was starting to reduce LOD on, or would fail to load, certain textures.

4k planetary/galactic textures work fine up to around 2560x1440, but I'd limit the use of 8k textures to 1080p or below. I personally use 3072 texture sizes at 1440p to ensure there is never any texture anomalies and keep minimum frame rates up.

 

[X-Terminator]

You see my system in my sig below. It is worth noting that with any fast card on any settings will still have some stutters in RES & CZ combat and perhaps in Stations (though not for me in stations since 1.3.7).