Hardware & Technical Predicted Machine Specs for E4?

Smugallo

Smugallo
Hi Folks!

Just wanted to start a thread to see if anyone can take a guess at what kind of machine we are going to need to get to play the game.

Not everyone has a high end gaming rig (I certainly don't space limitations in a small flat unfortunately) so I'm a little nervous I won't get the most out of the game if and when it arrives!! I know Star Citizen is aiming for super hi fidelity graphics, targeting high end machines, but I'm not convinced that its going to be that great a game.

Perhaps Elite could be run on lesser machines to appeal to a wider market?? Or are they aiming for hi fidelity as well?
 

Steve

Steve
My machine is getting a bit long in the tooth now; running Vista on a dual-core processor and a once-decent ATI card. The plan is to nurse her along until around about the time the game is released and then see what the required specs are.
I'm guessing a nice gfx card would be the way to go, to keep those fps figures up :smilie:
 

nOmArch

nOmArch
Far too early to tell yet, Although Limit Theory is running on embedded chipsets at the moment and looks fantastic I would imagine that you won't need something insane.
 

SuperG

S
Well it will be a 2014 game so what wil then be maintream will do. And that would be APU with decent 3th to 4th gen DX11.x unit on CPU Die.
Any uper midrange will do. But I am lookin out for 2014 future nextgen high- end. That is what will running ED for me. If the crisis wont catch up on me, I upgrade my systems.

Might be there wil be 4K UHD monitors out in 2014.
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Mazrocks said:
Not everyone has a high end gaming rig (I certainly don't space limitations in a small flat unfortunately) so I'm a little nervous I won't get the most out of the game if and when it arrives!!
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As I keep reminding people on the KS comments - don't panic :D

You have over 1 year to save up a little each month to put into a pool fund ready for your Elite upgrade. By the time the game is released what is cutting edge today (and more than adequate to run Elite I suspect) will be quite reasonably priced.

Incidentally - look into the Shuttle series (and similar) - they do small form factor cases that would fit into a flat. If anything it's the monitor that will take up most of the room.
 

Smugallo

Smugallo
Hmmm yeah I've got a quad core I7, but its a laptop, and the fans sounds like a 747 while gaming on the thing (which is not something I do often on it because its annoying as hell)

Having trouble convincing the missus to make room for a desktop... I'll break her down eventualy :)
 

Capt. Hook

Capt. Hook
Hopefully game will take advantage of 64bit processors and directX11 etc in some form as an option for players.

That said, one of the most commendable things about EVE is the Devs open commitment to making the game work for as many specs as possible. Other games seem happier to go hell for leather and make it look as shiny as possible and leave it up to the players to get the machine to cope with it.

I hope that with Elite's background of originally taking up 32K then later fitting a galaxy on a 512K floppy disk, E D will try to keep the system necessary to run it at a minimum.
 

nOmArch

nOmArch
I'm pretty sure David mentioned somewhere, although I'm damned if I can find it at the mo, that the game would scale to the hardware available.

Hopefully I'm not pulling that out of thin air.
 

Styggron

S
Josh from Limit Theory is using a laptop I think.

I plan to use the very laptop I am using right now assuming it is still working. It's just an i7 quad with 8 gig of RAM.
 

nOmArch

nOmArch
If its the extreme edition of the processor then that's a nice laptop!

My gaming rig is a Dual Quad T7400 Workstation with a GTX 660 so I'm fairly sure it'll run it reasonably well.
 

SnowGhost

S
You have about 15 - 16 months, assuming it doesn't slip, and all software products always slip so you have 18 months to save up. If you put aside $25 a week that is $100 a month or $1,800 in time to buy a brand new good quality game machine.

As for actual requirements I think FD should aim for something along the lines of
-Windows 7 x64 (I think in 2014 we can drop support for XP, which at that point will be 13 years old and 7 years superseded)
-quad core
-8G RAM minimum
-Intel HD4000 as the absolute look like crud minimum video chip

All of which means I have to buy a new PC.
 
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Sterlino

Sterlino
Predicted Machine Spec for Elite4 ?

...prepare youself for something like that :

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:D
 

Bikky

Bikky
I'll just wait, My current gaming rig (over 5 years since last upgrade and still plays well) will see me through.

Mrs is part owner of a chain of computer repair/sales shops :eek: so come 2014 getting an stop snatch machine shuold be no problem :D
 

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
I think mine will live as well - Core i7 2600K running at 4.5GHz with 16GB RAM and dual 5850 2GB graphics cards - although it's getting toward time to upgrade the GPUs, I'm waiting for the next breed to come out to see if it's going to be Nvidia or AMD/ATI.
 

Rroff

R
I suspect something along the lines of:

~2.0GHz Dual Core (Intel Core line or AMD Phenom - possibly Athlon 64)
2GB RAM
512MB Videocard GeForce GTX260 or AMD 4850 or faster

For smooth gameplay with reasonable settings (not going mad making everything look ugly just to get 30fps).

Reccomended would probably be a quad core CPU with 4GB RAM and an nVidia 460 or AMD 5850 or faster.

From what David has said the gam will probably scale fairly well to older hardware but half the reason to play these kind of games is for the visuals and I suspect the above will be around whats needed to get a half decent visual experience.
 
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SnowGhost

S
Rroff said:
I suspect something along the lines of:

~2.0GHz Dual Core (Intel Core line or AMD Phenom - possibly Athlon 64)
2GB RAM
512MB Videocard GeForce GTX260 or AMD 4850 or faster
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I hope it's better than that, because well, that is pretty minimal.
Intel Core CPUs came 6 years ago. Athlon 64 is even older.
2GB of RAM? Hell i've had 4 GB in my laptop for the past 5 years.

Lets push a little, rather than hold back to stuff that is multiple generations old.

Which is not to say I want to see dual octo core CPU's and 32G RAM as minimum, but if the game can take advantage of such power all the better.
 

Rroff

R
Not saying the game won't take advantage of newer power house PCs just saying I suspect that will be about the minimum specification required to get a taste of the full graphical experience with reasonable framerates. Below that your probably going to lose a significant amount of the visual fidelity to get smooth performance.
 
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