Wow, I never knew just how truly beautiful this game was......

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
So, a little back-story.

I have always loved the graphics in Elite: Dangerous, but the Video Cards & RAM I have used have always been at the low end of the Minimum Requirements for the game. However, due to graphics card issues I was having with my old Radeon R7 250.....I finally bit the bullet & bought a fairly high end NVIDIA card, as well as another 8GB of RAM......not to mention a new 24" HD Monitor.


So I went into my graphics settings & set it to High, & launched the game. What can I say but O.M.G!!!! As beautiful as I thought the game was, I clearly didn't know the half of it.....& had no idea just how much I was missing with my low graphics settings! Ice worlds actually look like proper ICE.....& that's just for starters!

All I can say is that it was worth every penny I spent upgrading my computer.

I will try to post some pics tomorrow.
 

Mengy

Mengy
Yep, there is no denying that Elite looks and sounds incredibly awesome. Frontier has some of the best graphic and sound devs in the industry in my opinion, they all do outstanding work.

Now if they could just get their gameplay design to match that level of excellence, instead of constantly relying on repetitive grind mechanics as gaming content...
 

Valorin

Valorin
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WR3ND

WR3ND
Would prefer if they would un-nerf the distant terrain generation and used higher resolution sky boxes for my 16K ultra screenshots I take now and then, but yeah, the game looks pretty good, and I'm definitely looking forward to what Q4 brings. :)
 

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
Mengy said:
Yep, there is no denying that Elite looks and sounds incredibly awesome. Frontier has some of the best graphic and sound devs in the industry in my opinion, they all do outstanding work.

Now if they could just get their gameplay design to match that level of excellence, instead of constantly relying on repetitive grind mechanics as gaming content...
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I think we are slowly starting to get there. I look forward to Q4 in particular, with the changes to mining & exploration.
 

Hellakitty

Hellakitty
I've played Elite at max settings... but 2.x only.

I've yet to experience the fully glory of the new shaders and planets in 3.0 at full bazinga.

With a bit of luck, Royal Mail should be delivering a graphics card to me today and by this evening I'll be able to get the full-fat version instead of the lowest settings @ 15fps my ancient laptop has been slowly melting to.
 

krylite

krylite
Amazing to hear your rediscovery of ED's look. I also mostly have medium to low end graphics for much my gaming history. Although for ED I have a decent but older Nvidia 870m gtx. Interestingly with 3.0 , I can now up "supersampling" to 1.25 or 1.5x with little to no framerate drop. Before 3.0 I never could go past 1.0x without severe slowdown and stuttering. So it's probably the best time to ever look at ED with high settings!
 

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
krylite said:
Amazing to hear your rediscovery of ED's look. I also mostly have medium to low end graphics for much my gaming history. Although for ED I have a decent but older Nvidia 870m gtx. Interestingly with 3.0 , I can now up "supersampling" to 1.25 or 1.5x with little to no framerate drop. Before 3.0 I never could go past 1.0x without severe slowdown and stuttering. So it's probably the best time to ever look at ED with high settings!
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I have a GTX 1050 Ti card now
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
When I upgraded from an AMD HD 6870 1Gb to a GTX 770 2Gb, the difference wasn't a big as I imagined, but the textures looked way better.

But the frame rate was what I really wanted, and the ability to record.

Happy bunny!
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Oh, just in case some of you haven't seen it yet, here's some Q4 target concept art for world surfaces...

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If that can be realized, I think some people would be justified in getting the game for it alone. [woah]
 
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Mengy

Mengy
I have a GTX970Ti and it lets me run Elite at full graphic settings, but I can only ramp supersampling up to 1.5X with it. When I go higher than that I get choppy frame rates and stuttering. It does look better, but it’s just not smooth enough for my liking.

Marc_Hicks said:
I think we are slowly starting to get there. I look forward to Q4 in particular, with the changes to mining & exploration.
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I’m very unsure about the Q4 update. I’m positive the graphical improvements will be fantastic, but it’s the game design changes that worry me, particularly regarding the exploration revamp. Frontier seems to always fall back onto grind mechanics as content, over and over again. Even in the engineer revamp they implemented new mechanics whose sole purpose is to preserve the grindy nature of the feature. Look at the new tech brokers, to unlock the new modules requires a huge repetitive grind effort ad nauseum. I have no problem with high degrees of effort, it’s the highly repetitive efforts I do not enjoy. Seeing how 3.0 did not depart from the grind as gameplay focus, I worry that 3.3 won’t either.

Still, I have a high degree of faith that the graphic improvements for Q4 will be great.
 

Arthur Shappey

Arthur Shappey
Mengy said:
Yep, there is no denying that Elite looks and sounds incredibly awesome. Frontier has some of the best graphic and sound devs in the industry in my opinion, they all do outstanding work.

Now if they could just get their gameplay design to match that level of excellence, instead of constantly relying on repetitive grind mechanics as gaming content...
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I strongly suspect they almost have to rely on simple, repetitive "grindy"-like mechanics.

Why?

Because to make complex plots for missions, they need either to make it a proper solo game, or a proper on-line game. Only with that can you start to have the necessary persistence that is required for NPCs and other missions specific entities that would make more compelling - story related missions really have some depth. Without it it, expensive service resource is not economically viable for a non-subscription game.

Personally I wish FDev would start up a new galaxy that was on-line only and subscription based - to do precisely this sort of thing. But I doubt they have the confidence in the commercials of whether they could bring enough of the community with them.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Arthur Shappey said:
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They know that they wouldn't. ED is for the long haul. Time to get used to it. Who knows? Maybe I'll see you in Jurassic World one day too though. ;)

Now if I could just play it as a utahraptor. I guess this'll have to do in the meantime...

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Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Marc_Hicks said:
So, a little back-story.

I have always loved the graphics in Elite: Dangerous, but the Video Cards & RAM I have used have always been at the low end of the Minimum Requirements for the game. However, due to graphics card issues I was having with my old Radeon R7 250.....I finally bit the bullet & bought a fairly high end NVIDIA card, as well as another 8GB of RAM......not to mention a new 24" HD Monitor.


So I went into my graphics settings & set it to High, & launched the game. What can I say but O.M.G!!!! As beautiful as I thought the game was, I clearly didn't know the half of it.....& had no idea just how much I was missing with my low graphics settings! Ice worlds actually look like proper ICE.....& that's just for starters!

All I can say is that it was worth every penny I spent upgrading my computer.

I will try to post some pics tomorrow.
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Elite: Dangerous is indeed one of those games that is worthy of a good graphics card, a decent CPU and 16 gigs of ram. :) Congrats on the new hardware.
 
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