i7 4790k + GTX 970 4GB performance?

[jacozilla]

Anyone else have this combo and playing X4 Foundations?

Intel 4790k with nvidia GTX 970 4GB.....

I know the processor is more than enough for both minimum and recommended specs, but the 970 is just on cutoff for minimum.

I've been waiting on fence to buy till launch issues are ironed out, but reading the board so far it seems reasonably livable shape - need more content, bug fixes etc but not the debacle of the last release (never played X series, just read up on past issues)

Anyone playing with GTX 970 on high settings or did you need to dial it way down to get reasonable 45+ FPS performance?

I've been debating whether to buy new RTX 2070 this christmas and may speed up the purchase but wanted to know if anyone has first hand experience with GTX 970 and/or 4790k + 970 combo.

thanks

[Lost Captain]

My system is similar : I7 4770k - GTX 780ti 3gb

Running on high without any issues.I get a slowdown now and again but it's hardly noticeable.Smooth
as silk even in busy sectors and asteroid heavy sectors.It runs a lot better than I thought it would for
a 1.0 version.

No crashes in 30 hours of game play.

All the best.

[KextV8]

I'm playing on i7 2600k overclocked to 4.5ghz with that same GPU. Most of the time I'm chilling at around 90 FPS. During heavier action or cluttered areas it will dip down to the 60s. My GPU usage pretty much stays pegged at max while my CPU doesn't seem to care much.

When I first turned the game on with no graphic customization, just let it all max, I was getting like 40ish FPS in clear and 20ish in cluttered areas like the heavy particle field in the asteroids around Grand Exchange. Now, I have an nVidia Control panel override going on because some of the graphic settings in game are rediculous gpu hogs for no visible benefit. Like MSAA. Seriously. Getting rid of that for FXAA made up the bulk of my gains, and visually I can't tell the difference. I also disabled a couple settings that I didn't like, such as distortion. Most of the settings are still on high, including level of detail. I'm playing at 1080p. If you are playing at 2k or 4k, you might have a different story.

So, to me the minimum requirements listed on steam are a bit silly. Maybe they just didn't want people saying it was bad without Egosoft being able to point to sys reqs and saying, "Hey, we warned you!", because my machine runs the game fine and it looks beautiful. Spoiler below for a quick snap of my graphics settings. I do have Vsync actually overridden in nVidia control panel as well, and several other things as well that increase FPS performance, like limiting prerendering, forcing threaded optimization, forcing power management into maximum performance etc.

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[jacozilla]

Thanks, I'll be downloading game soon, probably after this next beta patch goes out.

I'll stick with mostly high settings but play around with FXAA and stuff. I'm not a graphics junky and honestly can't tell difference between most titles Ultra vs High, or x16 AA vs x4, etc.

If the game is coming along nicely and get decent patches, I'll splurge for the upgrade to RTX 2070 at Xmas.

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