Damn, and here's me without a joystick till Christmas (I tried playing with keyboard and mouse. It was awful.)
Elite: Dangerous Standard Beta (Starting Jul 29th - $75)
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Damn, and here's me without a joystick till Christmas (I tried playing with keyboard and mouse. It was awful.)
Anton Sugar
Member
Ah, you just missed the Thrustmaster sale! Was $35 a week ago. EDIT: Still only $40!
Since we're talking peripherals, while not hardware based, I can't say enough good things about Voice Attack. Binding simple commands to be voice activated feels great in Elite.
Anton Sugar
Member
I'll check that out!
Who in here uses Track IR or Freetrack? Really tempted by them...
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I have a TrackIR5 that I've been using in the Mercenary combat demos, works well in Elite. Hard for me to imagine flying around or dogfighting without it.
Yup, couldn't play without it ( even more so since I play with the rift, meaning no easy access to the keyboard ).
Voices shortcut for things like supercruise, hyperdrive, boost, galaxy map ( which I have an hard time using with the rift ), landing gear, etc.. is very usefull ( and feel incredible ).
400 BILLION
You can delete your save and start over if you don't have anything you're worried about losing. Otherwise you'll need to do missions for Federation stations.
My Eagle is worth 150.000CR now and I have 80.000CR, so I wouldn't like to start fresh. I'm trying to get enough money to buy a Cobra
Btw, this is my docking procedure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zcPchYgGQ
How is yours?
I deleted my save and became an honest trader.... in a few hours I already have a decently upgraded Hauler able to ferry 16 tons of cargo. I think I'll wait for the Giantbomb podcast before doing my usual route again, so... probably wednesday = Cobra.
My poor Freeagle is still parked at the hangar, all alone and unused.
My poor Freeagle is still parked at the hangar, all alone and unused.
Should sell that puppy for 50k.
Just finished a ~4 hour DK2 session. One I managed to get a solid framerate I'm having zero nausea issues.
As someone who knows close to nothing about gaming rigs, does the below look ok for this game? I'm about ready to order...
CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z97-A
RAM : 8GB
GRAPHICS: 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970
HARD DISK: 120GB SAMSUNG 840 EVO SSD
POWER SUPPLY: CORSAIR 550W
COOLER: CORSAIR H55
MONITOR: 27" Apple Cinema Display
Would the above get me good visuals + 60fps or should I go i7? Also I'll be using the DK2 occasionally.
Thanks sorry to go a bit OTT, but the above is literally just to play ED.
CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z97-A
RAM : 8GB
GRAPHICS: 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970
HARD DISK: 120GB SAMSUNG 840 EVO SSD
POWER SUPPLY: CORSAIR 550W
COOLER: CORSAIR H55
MONITOR: 27" Apple Cinema Display
Would the above get me good visuals + 60fps or should I go i7? Also I'll be using the DK2 occasionally.
Thanks sorry to go a bit OTT, but the above is literally just to play ED.
That's no longer working/exploitable. You can trade it at full value for another ship though.
If anything, that is overkill. Great rig, and you don't need an i7.
Oh lord
Yeah, you'll be fine. Running "normally" (on a monitor) with a GTX-680, I run max settings and can usually maintain 60fps for most of the time (drops a bit around stations, but still pretty high). Performance in DK2 is iffy for me right now. That's partially that I'm running "only" a 680, but the game doesn't seem completely optimized for it yet right now. I don't mind having to sacrifice a bit of fidelity for the Rift, but the last time I tried it I was practically having to turn it down to minimum settings just to get a decent framerate, and it's not really worth it at that point. I'd rather play it on a monitor if it's going to look that bad in the Rift. I've got TrackIR V5 for outside the Rift. It's nowhere near the same, of course, but at least I can still look around.
It definitely still works. My friend just started playing this tonight and sold his freagle.
Thanks guys
So an i7 would make no difference at all? I'm quite keen to play at 1440p and get as high a frame rate as possible, would the increased cpu power not help with that?
So an i7 would make no difference at all? I'm quite keen to play at 1440p and get as high a frame rate as possible, would the increased cpu power not help with that?
Bizarre. When I tried to sell mine it offered me 0 cr since it was free but trading it for the hauler gave me full credit.
I used to know how to make decent money trading but not anymore. Haven't really put enough time in the trade route planning in the galaxy map to figure out how to use it properly. That and it seems it's not entirely accurate.
Lord Griegous
Member
No, not really. At that point other things tend to bottleneck the rig before the CPU. In any case, the games that are CPU-bound are pretty few (ArmA is one example). No need to spend money on an i7.
kutthoat5150
Member
looks good but please tell me that 120GB SSD is not the only HD it came with
I'd have a hard time believing it wouldn't in a game like this.
But I cant find any benchmark comparisons to say for sure.
There's quite a few games that have come out this year that benefit from i7's. Developers taking advantage of hyperthreading will definitely give better performance to people using i7's.
Lord Griegous
Member
Of course it will help, but at some point you get to a point of diminishing returns that just makes it not worth spending the extra $$. That is what I meant. The rig he posted is more than enough to run any modern game maxed without breaking a sweat, so there really is no need to get an i7.
Thanks gents, I'm mostly just interested in this game tbh, I can't imagine I'll be playing many other graphically intense games on it. I'm happy to spend an extra £80 on an i7 but only if there will be a noticeable difference with Elite.
I've not ordered yet, but I was planning on only having that 120GB SSD yes, is that a problem? It won't be my main PC, I use a Macbook pro for that. This rig is literally just for Elite and maybe a couple more games down the line.
I've not ordered yet, but I was planning on only having that 120GB SSD yes, is that a problem? It won't be my main PC, I use a Macbook pro for that. This rig is literally just for Elite and maybe a couple more games down the line.
At 1440p, I can understand his concern about getting any possible performance advantage he can.
Lord Griegous
Member
With the size of recent games, the 120 SSD will be full after 3 or 4 max even if that is the only thing you have on it. I would either get another one dedicated to games or a fast mechanical one (WD caviar black) for less demanding games +data.
kutthoat5150
Member
After you throw windows on it with its many updates and programs you'll use on a daily basis on top of the 1 or 2 games you'll play, that thing is going to fill up fast. It's not hard installing an extra HD later on but if your new to PC's, I'd recommend throwing in an extra one in there from the start for your media, games, etc
Thanks, really helpful. So where do you get the most profit/ton? With metals?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
This is brilliant, thanks for linking. Half-tempted to take it to a print shop and get a wall-sized print made up, lol
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Man I did one run with 16 tons of rare eranin whisky and made 300k. It was an 18 jump trip that took neawlrly an hour but worth it
Many interdictions?
Only two that were evaded, i've never had a problem with excessive interdictions The worst thing was coming out at a sun and getting too close when fuel scooping, jumping away with 225% heat was nail biting.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Me too. Oh well I'll try not to think of all the lost revenue.
Anybody know how this will run on an old AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ coupled with a Radeon HD 6950 2 GB? It ran Crysis respectably back in the day (albeit with a Geforce 8800 Ultra), but I honestly have no idea how it holds up with regards to newer games. I'm fine on the RAM front (8 GB).
mitchman
Gold Member
All a gimmick of course.
That's plenty and similar'ish to what I run with. The 970 can easily do 1440p at 60fps.
I didn't see anyone post this, here's a interview with Braben (3 days ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BdtK-ZdHI#t=12
Although if you're into E there's not much news here. He talks about VR support, 16K support, offline mode, plus more.
Got the link from this article:
http://www.maximumpc.com/interview_...david_braben_about_elite_dangerous_video_2014
400 billion stars is not really a gimmick at all in the context of Elite. The reason is that they've mapped the Milky Way galaxy (which has approx. 400 billion stars..), locations and all, the stars you see in the night sky is exactly how they are in the game. So if we want to have a certain authenticity it wouldn't make sense to not include all of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BdtK-ZdHI#t=12
Although if you're into E
there's not much news here. He talks about VR support, 16K support, offline mode, plus more.Got the link from this article:
http://www.maximumpc.com/interview_...david_braben_about_elite_dangerous_video_2014
400 billion stars is not really a gimmick at all in the context of Elite. The reason is that they've mapped the Milky Way galaxy (which has approx. 400 billion stars..), locations and all, the stars you see in the night sky is exactly how they are in the game. So if we want to have a certain authenticity it wouldn't make sense to not include all of them.
RubberJohnny
Banned
Can someone change the title to something a bit more current?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Not all that necessary, an OT should be forthcoming on release day next week.
Eranin? Maybe try what Orgun mentioned:
Man I did one run with 16 tons of rare eranin whisky and made 300k. It was an 18 jump trip that took neawlrly an hour but worth it
Where did you sold it? How do you know where to get the most profit of it?Man I did one run with 16 tons of rare eranin whisky and made 300k. It was an 18 jump trip that took neawlrly an hour but worth it