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Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 08:35

Servers are upgrading :eek:

Mr_Sukebe · 15 Dec 2015 at 10:23

I saw mention of them being available from around 16:00. Clearly they're building in some contingency, good on them. Looking forward to this...

ttaskmaster · 15 Dec 2015 at 10:42

Mart2912 said:
I've really been wanting to get this. I've always been a big fan of space type games and used to play Freelancer back in the day.

I still play Freelancer sometimes. This has everything Freelancer wanted to have and loads more besides, without all the drawbacks like Highways In Space.

Mart2912 said:
Is the game easy enough to get to grips with? Or is there a steep learning curve? As for controls, would I be better off using a controller initially or should I just go for something like a H.O.T.A.S?

It's relatively easy. But there is a lot you're able to do, so getting enough to start with will take a bit of time, both to learn and to get the hang of the skill. More advanced things follow in due course.
Expect to spend a little time reading the manuals, chatting on forums or watching YouTube tutorials, depending on your preferred method.
I've been playing since Beta and still haven't needed to know how mining, limpets, and several other things even work, let alone use them.

Controls - If you're not sure about dropping money yet, try a controller or M&KB, whatever you have. Generally a joystick or HOTAS work best but people are different. You can always get a cheap-ish HOTAS and try that out - You'll then have it ready for StarCit and any other similar games.
Or you can jump in with top end gear like the CH set or the Warthog. Neither will disappoint!

darkgen · 15 Dec 2015 at 11:45

gandhi said:
I've never spent £330 on a game before (GTX970, 600w PSU and the beta access) lol.

Still, it runs fine and dandy at 60fps/ultra/1080p now so I'm a happy chappy. I'd rather that than drop quality settings to play at 1440p.

Out of interest what FPS do you get when approaching/on planets? With my newly acquired 980 Ti it does dip to ~40 FPS (perfectly acceptable still). However I do have the video option to offload planetary calculations or somesuch slid all the the way to the right.

gandhi · 15 Dec 2015 at 12:32

chef-borjan said:
I think the 970 should push this out at 1440p at max settings... at least I thought mine did. I have a 144hz monitor and i use DSR up to 1440p and its still going 100+. Unless I remembering wrong. I am only on regular Elite still though..

Yeah, it does fine on Ultra/1440p in vanilla dangerous but it's the terrain generation that canes the card hard. They've moved a lot of the calcs off the CPU and onto the GPU as it's so significantly faster. The impact of this is, from what I can tell, a slightly reduced framerate.

darkgen said:
Out of interest what FPS do you get when approaching/on planets? With my newly acquired 980 Ti it does dip to ~40 FPS (perfectly acceptable still). However I do have the video option to offload planetary calculations or somesuch slid all the the way to the right.

On 1440? With everything on ultra I was dropping down to 35-45 on and around the planets but fine everywhere else, so I've dropped down to 1080 and it's pretty much constant 60fps now. If it does drop it's not really noticeable and only brief. I'm not so fussy as to need to run it on native res to have fun lol.

I would've thought a 980ti would've munched through it at 1440? The slider really just deals with terrain generation. Start with it on the left and if you get noticeable texture pop-in, gradually move it to the right until it stops or you're happy.

darkgen · 15 Dec 2015 at 14:33

gandhi said:
On 1440? With everything on ultra I was dropping down to 35-45 on and around the planets but fine everywhere else, so I've dropped down to 1080 and it's pretty much constant 60fps now. If it does drop it's not really noticeable and only brief. I'm not so fussy as to need to run it on native res to have fun lol.

I would've thought a 980ti would've munched through it at 1440? The slider really just deals with terrain generation. Start with it on the left and if you get noticeable texture pop-in, gradually move it to the right until it stops or you're happy.

Only running at 1080p. I confess I just slide the terrain generation full on with the mindset of it "improved graphics" as opposed to perceived pop-in. Have to wait till it's released now to set it to something a little more appropriate!

rhysduck · 15 Dec 2015 at 14:59

Really want to give this a go.. really can't spend more time not doing jobs around the house

does it run on xfire ok?

IvanDobskey · 15 Dec 2015 at 15:53

Sounds like you need a beast of a GPU for 1440p horizons then

How would the 780 fare?

Trig · 15 Dec 2015 at 16:27

I could always put my other 270x back in, should be fine with a pair of them right?

Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 16:33

Malevolence · 15 Dec 2015 at 17:20

Right, so I've been doing various missions and the like within a ~50LY area of my starting zone and have got a my Cobra kitted out to a half decent degree. Now I think I'll just point my nose in the direction of the galactic core and see what's out there.

Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 18:09

Bring it on baby

Malevolence · 15 Dec 2015 at 18:44

Consider yourself lucky, I don't have Horizons on my account and yet according to the launcher it's going to be 14hrs before I can play.

Just checked, my internet is working as per normal (10Mb).

Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 18:54

I am done and I am in and playing

jasonsony735 · 15 Dec 2015 at 19:04

I so want to get in to this game but finding it very very difficult

I can't even do a single mission without getting lost in space , its pretty depressing lol

ci_newman · 15 Dec 2015 at 19:07

Downloading now

Although I have a new launcher, it's blue

Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 19:23

ci_newman said:
Downloading now Although I have a new launcher, it's blue

Yer, mine is after I restarted the launcher. Ohhhh and a rather nice menu now also :cool:

Digital X · 15 Dec 2015 at 20:30

From what I've seen on Horizons, the planets only have one station? I'm tempted to buy it but don't want to be bored, also have barely any cash so buying a ship/space buggy is a no go for now.

doofer · 15 Dec 2015 at 20:36

So, update game? Yes please Frontier! Waits...

Yay! Oh, wait, this is just the normal Elite Dangerous update... Oh, I see, in the launcher it says upgrade to Elite Dangerous Horizons (I missed it at first as it's on a 3-way timed advertisement style thing in the Client..gg), so I download that, then that says I need a new Client...So I download the same one as before for some reason... I'm thinking why can't Frontier ever do something simple?

Well, what do you know, STEAM downloads 8.1GB in the time it takes to drink a coffee, I'll just use that... But no, it's still just Elite Dangerous, I need the Horizons, hey Frontier, instead of having people whining on your Forums about slow download speeds, why not, y'know let STEAM take care of it? Oh, wait... You don't want to release Horizons on STEAM apparently...

Seriously, why is everything Frontier ever do so convoluted all the time?

Gregster · 15 Dec 2015 at 21:12

Took less than 5 mins to do all my downloads and I messed up a bit as well.

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