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graphics card recommendations....

Post by deadflip » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:30

im tired of the immsense lag my fleet gives (60 baracudas, condor, serval distroyer vessels) and my homesystem is lagging lik hell (its got near 80 stations in it) on my 1.8 ghz, nvidia Gforce 2,
so im building a whole new comp,
ill sort msot things out in the shop, but what graph card would you guys recommend? (not 2 expensive).

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Post by FlyingElvis » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:35

Not sure on the video card, but don't go cheap on the CPU. All that slowdown is caused by massive AI calculations needed to run a sector that busy.

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Post by Zathos » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:36

I'm currently running a Geforce 4 ti4200 (128Meg) unit and it's ok, but a bit laggy once you build more than 10 fabs in a sector.

Just picked up a FX5950 (256Meg) and I will let you know how it does once it arrives :)

What is the rest of the spec for the comp. There is no point in putting an overpowered graphics card into an 'average' system?

P.S. rest of my comp spec:- 2.4Gig P4, 512Meg Ram, nice quick mobo, SB512 and a huge harddrive.
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Post by Some Strange Man » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:37

A Geforce 5700 with 256 RAM should be able to run everything up high.

Roughly £100 though.

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Post by Uncle B » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:38

The rumour is that nVidia is the best for this game.

I have a P4 2.4 with an ATi 9800 256MB G-card and a Gig of Ram and it's fine till you get to busy sectors like Thynns Abyss.

I reckon the situation you're talking about will always generate lag unless you get a supercomputer.
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Post by Wonder*Chimp » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 18:38

Get a big a processor as you can afford, then get the Graphics Card yourself. Check out PC Gamer or something like that to find the best performance for your money.

You can get a Gainward Ti4600 for about a hunderd notes at the moment.
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Post by humility925 » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:00

There is great to save money, I have a apple Computer in 1986, you can have it for just dollar! It's best compter inwith that year, Please call me! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by Helion X » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:07

My system works very well.. havent experienced any seriuos lagg yet and i have theese spec's AMD Athlon XP 2,6 owerklocked to 2,8 :D and 512 MB DDR 333 MHZ and an Asus FX 5900.. it only lags when the pc have some backgroud things to do or the pc have been on all night (no seta overnight that is)
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Post by Uncle B » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:10

Does anyone get a lag free time in alll sectors.
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Post by Helion X » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:12

UncleB wrote:Does anyone get a lag free time in alll sectors.
im quite early in the game yet but i have not experinced lag eccept wht i wrote on my post over yours.. so there are no lag in any system that i have explored

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Post by gungygussit » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:15

i'll keep this short cause i can't be bothored to read all the other posts lol, u could spend about £400 on a geforce fx6800, which is the latest geforce card, or a little less for £<300> - geforce fx5950 ultra (what i got), it runs anything, and if u'v ever ran the battle of proxycon demo on the 3d bench mark thingy, let me put it this way, on 800x600 u get 69fps, on 1024x768 u get 49fps

so either way its good, or u could just get a simple old 5900 ultra
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Post by jman1310 » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:16

I'm running a P4 3.2 GHz 800MHz FSB
1 gig of 3200 ram
ATI 9800PRO 256mb ram
i play w/ max settings @ 16x12 res
runs prefect, no lag ever!

my 2nd system is more midline
P4 2.4 GHz 800MHz FSB
1.25 gig of 3200 ram
Nvidia 4200 w/ 64mb ram
i play w/ only bump maps @ 1024x8 res
this system runs fairly well, slight lag once in a while
i think a better graphics card would improve the system greatly

both boards are intel 875s

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Post by humility925 » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 19:22

AMD 1.7 Ghz
Pro ATI 9500 Radon 124 MB
724 (I think) DDR RAM
80 GB Hard Drive
1024*768 with bump Map and one of them is on, not sure, it's some 3-d text,

I has been play, so far no lag but however it's dose crash to desttop very few time, rare, but I only have 4 factarys and one each sectors at that points

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Post by Constipated_Vigilante » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 21:09

I'm running a Geforce 4 Ti4200 right now. It runs X2 pretty well, except in a sector like Priest's Pity with the huge, brightly colored nebulas. It can do basically any of the stuff that a monstrous card like the 5900 Ultra can do, just runs a little slower. I've started putting X2 on "Abovenormal" priority on Task Manager when running, and it runs even smoother.
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Post by jon_tickle » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 21:17

If your on a budget spend the money on a good board and processor and you'll be able to economize with the graphics card without losing too much quality. Putting a top range graphics card in a mid range system is just throwing your money away but other than that its your choice.

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Post by JamieKirby » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 21:19

I play the game on:

AMD AthlonXP 2600+
512MB DDR PC2700
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB

If i have bumpmapping and/or shadows on, it shows it right down, i think Egosoft need to twak the graphics engine to make it more efficent.

My current setup will play Half Life 2 @ Full Settings, but i will have shadows off, since they are useless on this game.

So i don't see any reason why i shouldn't be able to play this game smoothly with everything on except shadows, which are rather craply done anywayz.

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Post by Helion X » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 22:02

i think the shadows are nicely done... have a look at the Boron Shark engine squiddy thing.. look how nicely the shadows are there

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Post by (/\)arped » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 22:07

128 mb 9800 ATI Radeon
512mb

Runs reaaaal nice. Bumpmaps always on, AQC always off.

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Post by |karus » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 22:18

I have nothing but good things to say about ATI's Radeon 9800pro :)
Running the game smoothly in 1280x1024, 4xFSAA, 8xAF and all eye candy but shadows turned on.
Rest of the comp is:
2.26@2.41Ghz P4
512MB PC3000 DDR

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Post by JamieKirby » Thu, 3. Jun 04, 22:35

What ATI Drivers you using?

Catalyst?

Omega?

which version? 4.5? 4.4? 4.3????

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