Newcomer / Intro Will my PC be powerful enough to play ED?

Atton Rand

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Hi,

I'm thinking of buying the Elite Dangerous base game to start with. I bought star citizen in 2015 but want to play ED now.

My PC build from 3 years ago is:

Intel Core I5 4670
Windows 7 64bit
8GB Corsair RAM
2 Terabyte Hard Drive
Grafix card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB

Can I play on middle or upper graphics?:)

Many thanks for any help.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
A quick Google for the basic game reveals the below which suggests that, yes, it will run. How well it runs is very much a case of YMMV. However, your specs indicate you'll be able to play Ok. One thing to bear in mind is that Horizons needs a bit more oomph; judging by my fan speeds alone, GPU and CPU requirements are more demanding.

Vanilla ED:

Operating System: Windows 7 SP1 32-bit.
Processor: Four Core (4x2 GHz stated as a fair minimum)
RAM: 2 GB or more.
Graphic card: AMD Radeon 4870 / Nvidia GTX 260 (DirectX 10)
Free HDD Space: 2,8 GB.
Graphic card's memory: 1 GB.

Horizons:

Minimum:
OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit.
Processor: Quad Core CPU (4 x 2GHz)
Memory: 6 GB RAM.
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 470 or AMD R7 240 (Direct X 11 functionality required)
Network: Broadband Internet Connection.
Hard Drive: 8 GB available space.

For Horizons, you may need to throttle back on some graphics settings to avoid dipping into slideshow territory. Roaming a planet in your SRV requires a bit of GPU grunt.

TL;DR Yes, it will run but settings will need adjusting.

PS I understand you were posting about base game requirementd but Horizons id definitely worth an investment.
 
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Atton Rand

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Thanks for that guys.

Yeas, I had a look at the benchmark but wanted players input based on experience.

The Star Citizen minimum spec changed quite a bit over the years.
 

Ism

I
Not sure the about the rest of the setup, but I had to upgrade my GTX 770 because it couldn't keep up at 1080p with medium graphics settings.
So I imagine it depends on what you can tolerate as far as lowering graphics, to obtain smooth performance.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
The CPU is fine (I'm running ED in VR on an i5 4690k, only slightly overclocked), but your GPU may be challenged, depending on the graphics settings, resolution and your required FPS.
 

Solsticide

Solsticide
I've got an old Frankenputer with a Q9650, 750 Ti and 8GB which can run ED on medium/high settings. Ok for single display.
 
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