No, it's just a 2.4gig i7. It reports to have 8 cores though. Just a 2670QM CPU. It will do. You don't want to know what my desktop is (hint, it is from 1998).
Hardware & Technical Predicted Machine Specs for E4?
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No, it's just a 2.4gig i7. It reports to have 8 cores though. Just a 2670QM CPU. It will do. You don't want to know what my desktop is (hint, it is from 1998).
I would not want the situation I had GTA IV,
People with the Xbox or PS3 versions could play it no problem,
but me with fairly high spec machine (at the time) could not play it.
Watching 1 frame per minute intro scene is not fun.
And the really annoying part was Rockstar had a reputation for screwing the PC owners.
I had to wait 5 years until I had a PC good enough to play GTA SA.
As long as FD don't do that, I'll be happy
People with the Xbox or PS3 versions could play it no problem,
but me with fairly high spec machine (at the time) could not play it.
Watching 1 frame per minute intro scene is not fun.
And the really annoying part was Rockstar had a reputation for screwing the PC owners.
I had to wait 5 years until I had a PC good enough to play GTA SA.
As long as FD don't do that, I'll be happy
Nah, by the time E: D is out the new breed of Playstation and Xbox will be out which will be significantly more beasty than the PS3 and 360s...
No, it's just a 2.4gig i7. It reports to have 8 cores though. Just a 2670QM CPU. It will do. You don't want to know what my desktop is (hint, it is from 1998).
The reason you're seeing 8 cores is probably because you have hyperthreading turned on in the BIOS.
Personally I always turn it off as it seems to slightly degrade the performance of the machine.
http://techreport.com/news/24003/here-what-kind-of-pc-youll-need-for-crysis-3
Seeing as Star Citizen is using the Cry3 engine, that is the level of equipment that Star Citizen are aiming at as well. I feel it's reasonable that a sizable number of people will be playing both SC and Elite - dangerous. So you may as well set the requirements the same. Keeps it easy.
Seeing as Star Citizen is using the Cry3 engine, that is the level of equipment that Star Citizen are aiming at as well. I feel it's reasonable that a sizable number of people will be playing both SC and Elite - dangerous. So you may as well set the requirements the same. Keeps it easy.
Well for a 2014 game you would think it will. And as a PC exclusive. But it is extra work. And every lowbudged gamer pre DX11 are forced to upgrade unless it supports DX11 with fallback mode to DX10. Or even DX9. Most games support a DX range 9 to 11 from windowsXP and up. But I think for the basic game they stick to mainstream dx9
If you a poor gamer that nice. But for power gamer not as falback to lower spec also means the base game design is limited to fix AI and physics load and level of destruction if the aim for the same gane experience and only difference would be GFX. In crysis the early trailer was very interactive jungle foilage. This finegrain massive concurent physics is very computing power demanding. So the scrap it. Crysis is in assense a DX9 XP game with a light DX10 sauce on it.
There where other DX10 games doing much more with DX10 features.
It doesn't mean by using procedural content that the game is light. No the game storage is extreem low compared to massive content it can generate.
So it stresses the tech with generating content that once generated takes memory footprint. Just like the conventional way. If you generate texture well in vidmem they take the same of the heap as conventional handmade textures. The difference they dont excist on disk but on the fly as generated wenn needed. You can push it even much more extreem with procedural content. More object uniekness means more object using memory. Less intancing. Generation cost computingpower to.
It could be LOD to. The more mem system or vid, the more variations and larger mipmap chains.
Just like with the convetional way also with procedural way. They need to adjust to specific hardware target range.
DX9 is XP. We can ignore Windows XP completely. It's an irrelevant target for a game coming out in well over a year. It was good - 11 years ago. By the time E - D comes out it will be 13 years old and at least 6 years out of date and 4 OS revisions behind.
Frontier should target DX 11 It came out in 2009, so by 2013 it's 4 years old and every PC that can run Elite hardware wise will have the software too. DX 11 was also back ported to Vista via Service pack 2. No reason at all to not target DX 11.
Frontier should target DX 11 It came out in 2009, so by 2013 it's 4 years old and every PC that can run Elite hardware wise will have the software too. DX 11 was also back ported to Vista via Service pack 2. No reason at all to not target DX 11.
Correct.
Thinking seriously about taking the plunge and moving from dual core to that newfangled(ish) I7 cpu. Was thinking about going for the I7-3930K. Going to need new motherboard, ram and stuff tho (sigh).
I just did my "mid-term" upgrade on this PC, basically replacing bits that fit in the existing motherboard, and I hope to get a couple of years more at least out of it.
So I'm on about the best CPU my board can handle, AMD 965 Black 4 Core @ 3.4, and a pretty beastly NVidia 660Ti, and with 8 Gb of RAM.
I think it will be fine, but I also think its fairly usual for games to let you scale down the graphics to suit older systems so it should just be a matter of tweaking that to suit.
Massively multiplayer games are CPU hungry when they are controlling the actions of players you can see, but if we can only ever be in the same instance as maybe 20 or 30 ships then I think that'll be fine. I think the 'massive' part will be unseen player actions (market trades, etc), and that's doesn't require complicated physics and stuff, just information downloads.
So I'm on about the best CPU my board can handle, AMD 965 Black 4 Core @ 3.4, and a pretty beastly NVidia 660Ti, and with 8 Gb of RAM.
I think it will be fine, but I also think its fairly usual for games to let you scale down the graphics to suit older systems so it should just be a matter of tweaking that to suit.
Massively multiplayer games are CPU hungry when they are controlling the actions of players you can see, but if we can only ever be in the same instance as maybe 20 or 30 ships then I think that'll be fine. I think the 'massive' part will be unseen player actions (market trades, etc), and that's doesn't require complicated physics and stuff, just information downloads.
I'm hoping that there are better passively-cooled GFX cards by the time ED is released! Currently I'm running a Sapphire Radeon HD 7750, which was the best silent card I could find when I bought it a couple of months ago.
I want to run ED at full graphics settings, without compromising my PC's virtually zero noise level. Hopefully as transistor sizes shrink and power consumption drops, this will become more of a reality.
I want to run ED at full graphics settings, without compromising my PC's virtually zero noise level. Hopefully as transistor sizes shrink and power consumption drops, this will become more of a reality.
Partially answered by FD:
http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1461411552/comments
FD> "I can't comment on minimum specs yet, we're a long way from knowing that. The demos are running on decent PC's, but I wouldn't describe them as uber machines. Of course a lot of the graphical polish isn't in yet, but conversly we've not optimised it fully either."
Save up your money and by the time 2014 rolls round you will be able to afford a relatively good machine with that nest egg you saved up.
http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1461411552/comments
FD> "I can't comment on minimum specs yet, we're a long way from knowing that. The demos are running on decent PC's, but I wouldn't describe them as uber machines. Of course a lot of the graphical polish isn't in yet, but conversly we've not optimised it fully either."
Save up your money and by the time 2014 rolls round you will be able to afford a relatively good machine with that nest egg you saved up.
Thats exactly my plan. Have about £400 saved up so far in my "new pc jar", but depending on how things look with the KS campaign (and what rewards/addons are available... FD tour anyone!? lol) I may give my pledge a good old fashioned jontying with it
Took the plunge the other day and updated system to one listed below. Finger's crossed its enough for the game to play in 'uber dev mode'
Haha - thanks Steve
To my fairly untrained eye that looks like a pretty impressive spec!
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm going to hold out until closer to the release date and then pin my hopes on being directed to the best machine possible by a spotty youth in PC World
Please don't go to PC world. You will be ripped off and chances are buy a PC that's not designed to run games very well (probably have a naff GFX card)
Do yourself a favour and buy one from here
http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/
Cheap and reliable gaming PCs.
I've bought all my PC shizzle from there for years. They're a good company.
If you don't fancy that particular site by all means Google Gaming PCs and buy elsewhere, just not a shop like PC world, Comet, Currys etc..
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I’ve gone for the same CPU and Mobo combo as you (building a PC this weekend!).
I think it’s a good choice – combined with your graphics card it will pretty much kill any game on high settings (I’m sure even Crysis 3 on “ultra” when it comes out next year!).
I hope Elite has an “ultra graphics” setting!
EDIT: Agree with the comments about PC World being a rip off!
I was eyeing up those gaming rigs from Aria, with the intention of stumping up some serious cash come end of next year. Nice to hear it has favourable reviews. So long as it doesn't come with Win8 on it
Have you (or anyone you know) bought a full system from them before? Any opinions?