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PianoPhil

P
Hi All,

I have a couple of questions. Some addressed to FD and general ones. I have a friend who is to young to know Elite, FE and FFE in all its glory, but he's loving the look of Elite now and is pondering coming on-board.

Couple of questions:

1) Do we have a playable demo (e.g. perhaps 2 of the scenario's and\or with trading that he could install on his local PC) that gives him a taste of what it is like. It is hard for someone who never has played Elite to pay so much for a game without trying it out. Personally think some sort of playable demo might be good since it gives potential players a taste before purchase.

2) If worse I can let him have a go on my account to see what he thinks of it. We've got the scenario's, which won't affect my stats, but is there a way if I let him have a bash of the online game of saving my stats and resetting them back after he has played?

In addition the guy is a maccie, but has a PC laptop:

3) Has anyobdy ran Elite on a i5 laptop? Have seen 1 comment that they had to upgrade. If he sets all the options to low would it run from anybodies experience?

4) Is anybody running Elite via bootcamp and if so how does it run?

5) If he purchased now would he automatically get the mac version when it comes out?


Thanks people.
 

caldrin

C
1. This is still in beta so its not released yet.. so no demo but I have not read about any plans for a demo after release.

2. Dont think so sorry.

3. well i would think most i5 processors should be ok but its a lot more than just the processor. What graphics card does the laptop have ?

4. not sure sorry.

5. not sure etiher sorry.
 

Robert Maynard

Volunteer Moderator
Robert Maynard
1) Not at this time.
2) No.
3) There's a thread about running E: D on lower powered PCs.
4) I believe so.
5) Yes.

:D
 

Andrew Sayers

A
Right now all you can get for free is Youtube videos and old games/remakes/fiction, so you'll have to give him a go on your account if they're not his cup of tea. IMHO this is because the beta is designed for testing rather than playing, so features designed to lure new players haven't really got much attention yet.

By the way, although it's always great for new people to jump on board, if he's just looking for a complete game there's no shame in waiting for the release before purchase :)
 

Frank

Frank
This isn't exactly a demo but there is a game called Oolite

http://www.oolite.org/

Which would be the perfect introduction to the Elite universe. It would allow him to see if he's happy with the roll and pitch style of dogfighting.
 

peter101cycle

peter101cycle
4. Yes, running on my Mac at the moment and runs fine via bootcamp on W7

5. Shouldn't be a problem, you'll just download to your current machine.
 

sassman

S
I ran ED on an i5 laptop and whilst the CPU was OK, the on board graphics card let it down. It was unplayable whilst entering a space station. I bought a dedicated gaming PC for Elite. The laptop was less than a year, Win 8.1, 8GB ram and an SSD drive. With the options set low it was still unplayable. Graphics card was an onboard 512mb.
 
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ScottGust

ScottGust
PianoPhil said:
Hi All,

I have a couple of questions. Some addressed to FD and general ones. I have a friend who is to young to know Elite, FE and FFE in all its glory, but he's loving the look of Elite now and is pondering coming on-board.

Couple of questions:

1) Do we have a playable demo (e.g. perhaps 2 of the scenario's and\or with trading that he could install on his local PC) that gives him a taste of what it is like. It is hard for someone who never has played Elite to pay so much for a game without trying it out. Personally think some sort of playable demo might be good since it gives potential players a taste before purchase.

2) If worse I can let him have a go on my account to see what he thinks of it. We've got the scenario's, which won't affect my stats, but is there a way if I let him have a bash of the online game of saving my stats and resetting them back after he has played?

In addition the guy is a maccie, but has a PC laptop:

3) Has anyobdy ran Elite on a i5 laptop? Have seen 1 comment that they had to upgrade. If he sets all the options to low would it run from anybodies experience?

4) Is anybody running Elite via bootcamp and if so how does it run?

5) If he purchased now would he automatically get the mac version when it comes out?


Thanks people.
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when Im out n about I run ED on an Asus g46 gaming pc that is a dual core i5, 8gigs ram/nvidia 6 series mobile...and im at high detail settings getting between 25-60 fps
 

ddrooster

D
I can only have an opinion on the I5 lots of ram and kin good graphics
I play on mine 16 gig ram but its slowwwww compaired to the deaktop
 

Bobby

B
Hello

Hi, welcome to the game, If you want you can join a lot of new and old guys on our TS channel that will answer all your questions. We would like to meet new guys and girls, that play elite, so please feel free to pop onto our TS: 85.236.100.188:14607

If you want to just listen in on us thats ok or if you want to join in the fun, please bring beer and pizza. :D
 

Georgio

Georgio
Running ED on a 27" i7 iMac (May 2013 vintage) with Win7 and Bootcamp and it runs very well as do all my other PC games.
I'm using the panel resolution of 2550x1440 with everything cranked up and it runs beautifully.
Even if Frontier do get a native Macintosh version, all my toys like Warthog & TrackIR won't work in MacOS so it's pointless.
 
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