Hardware & Technical Running a bit slow on Horizons

[CMDR Ian Douglas]

Hi people of the forums!
I have recently purchased Horizons, and I found that my performance drops near planets and other new things from Horizons. I run a 1050 ti. Is anyone else running a 1050 ti that knows some good settings to put it on for Horizons? I tried to optimize it with GeForce Experience, but it doesn't let me.

Even if you don't run a 1050 ti, does anyone know what setting to turn down to get better FPS near planets?

Thanks for reading this, have a good day. [up]

 

[MickyG1982]

The 1050ti isn't the only factor here I suspect, might be worth describing the rest of your system.

With Geforce Experience it's worth pointing it to the folder where you have ED installed, if you have installed it somewhere other than the expected place on the (usually) c drive it looks in program files (x86) it may not find the game & you'll have to manually add the folder.

 

[Morbad]

Hi people of the forums!
I have recently purchased Horizons, and I found that my performance drops near planets and other new things from Horizons. I run a 1050 ti. Is anyone else running a 1050 ti that knows some good settings to put it on for Horizons? I tried to optimize it with GeForce Experience, but it doesn't let me.

Even if you don't run a 1050 ti, does anyone know what setting to turn down to get better FPS near planets?

Thanks for reading this, have a good day. [up]

Depth of field is a huge performance hog.

Shadows and ambient occlusion generally cost more performance on the surface than elsewhere.

Terrain quality settings are another thing that may be worth adjusting.

 

[Jon flint]

If I remember correctly, terrain quality is the biggest planet specific performance hog.

DOF is also pretty power hungry but is only used in the camera suite so shouldn't cause too many issues in general gameplay.

Shadows are probably the biggest culprit overall for eating fps.

Don't forget though, not all FPS issues are related to your GPU, network related issues can also drag your game down. For instance, I've seen a single Cmdr with a poor connection drag down an entire instance to single digit framerates.