Even though I've just upgraded my rig, I find myself playing EDO on Geforce Now.
I just like that service too much. Plus, I wanted to know if I could recommend GFN as an alternative platform to play EDO to people who are struggling with framerate issues.
Anywho, I've been putting EDO through its paces on that service and discovered that even the powerful server farms of nVidia struggle with settlements. Results I've seen (same as my local hardware settings: all high running at 1080p capped at 60hz):
Space: 60 fps steady
Station concourses: after a brief (5-15 sec) dip to 45fps as assets load, frames return to 55-60.
Baren moons: 60 fps steady
Surface settlements: 28-45 fps, depending on the settlement, with an average of around 35 fps.
Medium CZ: 32 fps
I was actually surprised to see settlements perform so poorly on GFN when the rest of the game is running well. But there is good news here because FDev has polished up the rest of the game from what I can see (in terms of performance). If they can get settlements running better - and they clearly will have to for a console launch as the last gens don't have hardware anywhere near what GFN is running - EDO should be in a good spot.
As for recommending GFN for EDO: well, 3/4s of the game runs fine on that service. Planetary settlements and medium CZs, while playable, don't run well though, a surprising result as I've seen GFN chew up and spit out games far more demanding than EDO!
FYI
I have yet to check planets with atmospheres. I"ll try that tonight.
(As an aside, I found one unique benefit of using GFN for EDO: the poor anti-aliasing doesn't seem as bad!
While it will still make your eyes bleed, I think the video compression tech that GFN uses helps with AA a bit.)