Newcomer / Intro What Graphics Card?

Stylafome · Oct 31, 2016

I feel that ED could look better but am unsure if its just the setting I have equipped or whether I should get a better graphics card.

I currently have a NVidia GeForce GTX 560. Should I get a better one. I really don't want to be paying our millions for it either.

If someone could help that would be great.

Robert Maynard · Oct 31, 2016

What are your expectations on price, frame-rate, settings and resolution?

Stylafome · Oct 31, 2016

well maybe around the £200 mark.

As well as all the other stuff, I'm a complete noob and have no idea about them lol. Basically on planetary approach sometimes the planet will all of the sudden burst into detail. From being just a smooth colored surface it becomes textured out of no where. it doesn't seem right.

Also sometimes I have problems with the sunlight inside the cockpit. It will be there one moment then gone the next.

My main bug-bare (this really annoys me) when I land on a planet and switch to the rover, as it fades up from black the inside of the vehicle bay is all blurry and pixilated, then I get lowered out and everything else is fine. Even when loading back inside the vehicle bay is fine, its just on that first exiting.

Chris Simon · Oct 31, 2016

I've got a GTX 960 and it still runs the game on ultra, 1080p.
I'm planning to upgrade, but I'm in no hurry, unless I decide to up the resolution with a new monitor.

So I'd say anything from 10X family will be more than enough. 3GB GTX 1060 is around 190 pounds these days

Para Handy · Oct 31, 2016

I have a 4GB GTX970 that runs ultra with no issues on 2560 x 1440 resolution. I had a 2GB GTX660ti which handled ultra and I thought that was good (till it caught fire) - I was amazed at how much better everything looked on the 970.

P.S. I would have waited for a 1070 but the blown-up card forced my hand before they were released.

Hanz Sorensen · Nov 1, 2016

I have a GTX 770 2 GB and it looks/works great. Can run on High with no Problems. (Frontier Recommends Graphics: Nvidia GTX 770 / AMD Radeon R9 280X or better)
I think GTX 970 or GTX 1060 would be best bang for the buck nowadays. Maybe you can find a GTX 770 for cheap from someone who is upgrading.

W4LD0 · Nov 1, 2016

There's currently a GTX 980 FTW in EVGA's B-stock for $260 (US), and a 980 Ti Classified for $300 (US). I know both are a little over the £200 mark, and may not be available in the European market for that price, but if you can, I'd definitely get a 980 for that price.

http://www.evga.com/Products/Produc...ily=GeForce+900+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+980

I currently own a 980 Classified myself and the card is simply amazing; it will definitely allow you to run 1080p with highest settings at 144 fps no sweat. With some tweak downs on graphics you can comfortably play in 4k with DSR, but depending on the game and the developer, the fps mileage varies at this point. With Elite, using 4k DSR on high-custom settings, I can get around 80-100 fps on average. Good luck in your hunt for a new GPU CMDR.

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Whelan Dowd · Nov 1, 2016

If it's any help I can pass on that a 2Gb GTX 750TI (very much at the cheap end of the spectrum), at 2560x1440 and graphics set to 'ultra', for me is delivering around 30ish fps inside a spaceport and 40-50fps in space. The same card with graphics set to 'high' is around 40-50fps in a spaceport and a solid 60fps in space.

through the hole backwards · Nov 1, 2016

My BBC Micro has an etch a sketch for a graphics card if that helps?

Admiral Stavanos · Nov 1, 2016

Stylafome said:
well maybe around the £200 mark.

As well as all the other stuff, I'm a complete noob and have no idea about them lol. Basically on planetary approach sometimes the planet will all of the sudden burst into detail. From being just a smooth colored surface it becomes textured out of no where. it doesn't seem right.

Also sometimes I have problems with the sunlight inside the cockpit. It will be there one moment then gone the next.

My main bug-bare (this really annoys me) when I land on a planet and switch to the rover, as it fades up from black the inside of the vehicle bay is all blurry and pixilated, then I get lowered out and everything else is fine. Even when loading back inside the vehicle bay is fine, its just on that first exiting.

After looking at your card's specs (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560/specifications), I can safely say you have memory issues concerning the card. ED pushes lots of detailed graphics, which in turn requires lots of memroy...1GB is no longer enough for smooth visual transitions and the like.

I recommend a card with 4GB of GGDR5 memory as a starting point and make sure the Graphics frequency closely tails that of the Memory's frequency clock.
I have an MSI Radeon R7 370, not the fastest nor the slowest....I have all settings on Ultra and High where available - only tweaking the Super-sampling factor to 1.5 and Terrain Work respectively. If it's a bit too much, step SS factor down by one notch.

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