System Requirements
- Thread starter Vaulstone
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As with any of these things, it really depends on how you're going to play it. What resolution, frame-rate, etc. ?
I'd guess those are based on 1080p, maybe at 30fps for Minimum.
I have a much better computer than the listed specs (5800X3D & 3080), but I'm mostly playing on a 1440p monitor at High Graphics settings at 60 fps. Neither CPU or GPU are above 50% utilisation, so that sounds like overkill... however, I do also occasionally play in VR on fairly high resolution headset (Reverb G2), and the same system can barely run the game acceptably with Very Low Graphics due to the increase in resolution and frame-rates.
It really depends what you are shooting for display-wise. If you have an idea then update your post and I'm sure people with similar displays will be able to help you out.
As with any of these things, it really depends on how you're going to play it. What resolution, frame-rate, etc. ?
I'd guess those are based on 1080p, maybe at 30fps for Minimum.
I have a much better computer than the listed specs (5800X3D & 3080), but I'm mostly playing on a 1440p monitor at High Graphics settings at 60 fps. Neither CPU or GPU are above 50% utilisation, so that sounds like overkill... however, I do also occasionally play in VR on fairly high resolution headset (Reverb G2), and the same system can barely run the game acceptably with Very Low Graphics due to the increase in resolution and frame-rates.
It really depends what you are shooting for display-wise. If you have an idea then update your post and I'm sure people with similar displays will be able to help you out.
^ This.
I use the following:
3440x1440 display
5800X3D
32GB DDR4 3600 CL16
4070 Super
I run at native resolution with a mix of high and ultra settings.The game averages at around 130fps in stations. Odyssey conflict zones are much more demanding, especially on the CPU, and you can expect dips into the 50s there.
I use the following:
3440x1440 display
5800X3D
32GB DDR4 3600 CL16
4070 Super
I run at native resolution with a mix of high and ultra settings.The game averages at around 130fps in stations. Odyssey conflict zones are much more demanding, especially on the CPU, and you can expect dips into the 50s there.
only occasionally?! I live in my G2 played ED. VR ruined monitor gaming for me when I got the Oculus DK2 10 years ago.
I have a fairly new system with an Nvidia 4090 and it runs ED at medium to high GFX settings, which are plenty good enough when viewed in the G2.
My old 10 year old X99 Haswell chip rig with a water cooled 980TI ran my DK2 at reasonable framerate but GFX needed to be low to medium.
As others have said, it purely depends on what GFX and framerate you looking for. One Cmdrs min specs may be very, VERY, different to another Cmdrs min specs.
I really love ED in VR, but I play a lot of other games, do a lot of other things with my computer, so it's more about the VR setup being a hassle when not the main use.
I have a tobii head/eye tracker set-up which gives a little bit of the same effect when I'm playing flat-screen, so it doesn't feel totally alien when I switch between the two.
So I'm running:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor 4.70 GHz
MSI MAG CoreLiquid C360 - AIO ARGB CPU Liquid Cooler - 360mm Radiator
Crucial Pro 32GB(2x16GB)
Intel Arc a750 LE (8GB)
GIGABYTE B650 AORUS Elite AX
Crucial P3 Gen 4 x4NVMe (3 of these, one is the OS, the other the game resides on)
XPG 850W ps
Every once in a while I find myself crashing to desktop or dropping to the Main Menu (50/50). I have reduced and limited FPS to 60 and it seems a little more stable now (not crashing/dropping) but I'm not sure if that is the issue. Running FURMARK2 benchmarks for 60 seconds without crashing. Hopefully I solved it but if I haven't, what else have I missed?
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor 4.70 GHz
MSI MAG CoreLiquid C360 - AIO ARGB CPU Liquid Cooler - 360mm Radiator
Crucial Pro 32GB(2x16GB)
Intel Arc a750 LE (8GB)
GIGABYTE B650 AORUS Elite AX
Crucial P3 Gen 4 x4NVMe (3 of these, one is the OS, the other the game resides on)
XPG 850W ps
Every once in a while I find myself crashing to desktop or dropping to the Main Menu (50/50). I have reduced and limited FPS to 60 and it seems a little more stable now (not crashing/dropping) but I'm not sure if that is the issue. Running FURMARK2 benchmarks for 60 seconds without crashing. Hopefully I solved it but if I haven't, what else have I missed?
Make sure all of your bios and drivers are up to date.
-Amd chipset
-Motherboard bios
-Intel Arc driver. Intels Arc gpu's are the newest kids on the block. I would be looking to update those GPU drivers weekly. Lots of driver updates would be expected for optimizations and bug fixes
-Windows or Linux updates
I run an Amd Am4 setup:
Ryzen 5800x3d
Asus Mobo
Msi Rx 6800 gpu
Gskill 32gb 3200cl14 ram
Samsung nvme drives for Os and storage
My monitor (for now) is still a 1080p 144Hz monitor, which is usually maxxed out on fps
Game runs fine for me on a mix of high and ultra settings
-Amd chipset
-Motherboard bios
-Intel Arc driver. Intels Arc gpu's are the newest kids on the block. I would be looking to update those GPU drivers weekly. Lots of driver updates would be expected for optimizations and bug fixes
-Windows or Linux updates
I run an Amd Am4 setup:
Ryzen 5800x3d
Asus Mobo
Msi Rx 6800 gpu
Gskill 32gb 3200cl14 ram
Samsung nvme drives for Os and storage
My monitor (for now) is still a 1080p 144Hz monitor, which is usually maxxed out on fps
Game runs fine for me on a mix of high and ultra settings
Gotta say, I wouldn't want to try and run ED with only 8gb of RAM.
I had 16gb of RAM in my PC and ED would run fine straight after rebooting my PC but once I started doing stuff like opening an internet browser to check something on INARA or whatever or opening a spreadsheet of ED data I would, eventually, end up with ED crashing due to lack of memory.
Technically, that's not ED's fault because it's the other software that's hogging memory (Chrome, I'm looking at you) but it's just the nature of modern software to assume everybody has at least 1.21 jigabytes of memory.
Upgraded to 32gb of RAM and everything's been fine... and that was just after Odyssey launched and still seems to be the case now.
I had 16gb of RAM in my PC and ED would run fine straight after rebooting my PC but once I started doing stuff like opening an internet browser to check something on INARA or whatever or opening a spreadsheet of ED data I would, eventually, end up with ED crashing due to lack of memory.
Technically, that's not ED's fault because it's the other software that's hogging memory (Chrome, I'm looking at you) but it's just the nature of modern software to assume everybody has at least 1.21 jigabytes of memory.
Upgraded to 32gb of RAM and everything's been fine... and that was just after Odyssey launched and still seems to be the case now.
I have....
i7 10700 (none k)
DDR4 32gb 3200 CL16 (i believe runs at 3200 on my Z board with XMP as cpu is 2933. I might be wrong
)
RTX 3070
1440p res
60 fps/v sync
CPU temp: low 30s. GPU temp mid 50s.
I do get stutters when exiting SC at stations.
I might be able to fix this with DLDSR at 1.78 but i am unsure if i have enough vram at 8G
Bloom, blur, FX quality, particle quality, jet cone quality, volumetric effects quality, shadows, ambient occlusion, terrain checkerboard rendering all off or lowest. Everything else max.
Overall a good experience playing Elite Odyssey.
i7 10700 (none k)
DDR4 32gb 3200 CL16 (i believe runs at 3200 on my Z board with XMP as cpu is 2933. I might be wrong
)RTX 3070
1440p res
60 fps/v sync
CPU temp: low 30s. GPU temp mid 50s.
I do get stutters when exiting SC at stations.
I might be able to fix this with DLDSR at 1.78 but i am unsure if i have enough vram at 8GBloom, blur, FX quality, particle quality, jet cone quality, volumetric effects quality, shadows, ambient occlusion, terrain checkerboard rendering all off or lowest. Everything else max.
Overall a good experience playing Elite Odyssey.
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What resolution are you playing at?
8GB of vRAM is a bit low for 1440p. You might want to experiment with the AMD FSR settings. I have never suffered from crashes, but found framerates to be quite variable on older 6GB and 8GB cards without FSR.
The obvious suspect is Intel graphics drivers given how new they are. I understand they are pretty good now generally, but given that Elite: Dangerous is an older niche title and quite a complex one, it wouldn't amaze me if there was still some little thing in there that triggers an issue in certain conditions.
If you're getting any error codes or Crash Reports I would send the details both to FDev and Intel.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005848/graphics.html