Fox Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 So do you think 16Gb RAM (DDR 3) is too little, I just upgraded last year and it has a mild overclock @ 1500mhz its 16Gb DDR3 1333 Dual Channel. 16GB of ram is more than enough for this game (or any other game) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz Man Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hopefully they find a solution or good workaround quickly (before stable) as it would suck for all of the great improvements to be overshadowed by an optimization issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobrpggamer Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 16GB of ram is more than enough for this game (or any other game) That's good to know, Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzalicious Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 It it an unoptimized experimental in an unoptimized game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hopefully they find a solution or good workaround quickly (before stable) as it would suck for all of the great improvements to be overshadowed by an optimization issue. Ya, all their efforts going towards making the game look good isn't worth it if they lose their player base simply because ppl can't afford to keep upgrading their computers every year. At this point, the system requirements just feels like a blatant lie now. Remember back when the game only needed 512mb of video memory, 4GB of ram and a dual core CPU? Look where it's at now. It's not even remotely close to what it used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz Man Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Sooooo, I am on my PC right now and did some checking. I bought my card in 2015 and it only has 2GB of VRAM. I'd say I have gotten my money's worth out of it by now lol. EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Bought it on sale for $199 ($10 rebate + Witcher 3 included) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltazar Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Right now I'm rocking an old system - CPU: Intel® Core i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 4600 OS: Windows 10 RAM: 8.0GB SOUND: Turtle Beach Recon 60P Looking at this setup atm: https://www.staples.com/CYBERPOWERPC-Gamer-Master-GMA430-Desktop-AMD-Ryzen-5-1500X-3TB-HDD-8GB-DDR4-Win-10-AMD-RX-580-Graphics/product_24185025 I have heard though Radeon GPU's are giving a18 B139 some probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliet_Capulet Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 8GB RAM, GTX1660 (6GB), i5, 1080p. With medium settings for a18e, I get between 45-100+ fps. I'm pretty happy with the 1660, I can run most of my games on high or ultra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytheturrets Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Well if do not mind a video card being used getting a used one off of ebay would be good option. You can get used gtx 1070 with 8 gb ram for around $200 on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Well if do not mind a video card being used getting a used one off of ebay would be good option. You can get used gtx 1070 with 8 gb ram for around $200 on ebay. Ya, you definitely save a lot of money buying used... but problem is, you have no idea if it went through bit mining levels of stress or if it has other problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unholyjoe Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Ya, you definitely save a lot of money buying used... but problem is, you have no idea if it went through bit mining levels of stress or if it has other problems. been there ... will never ever buy a used video card again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warmer Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I run a Radeon RX 580 and the game is smooth and stable (30-45 FPS outside/city 60 FPS underground/in buildings) at max settings minus reflections and water turned down to low (can't stand how shiny it makes everything) One MAJOR bottle neck in your cards performance could be your memory and cpu. I used to run the same card on an AMD FX chip with 8GB DDR3 ram. Got WAY worse performance than I do now. Once I swapped out my MB and put in a Ryzen chip and DDR4 ram. Literally got 10 FPS more at higher setting with the SAME GPU. Don't forget how much your CPU/RAM will bottle neck performance. If your CPU and RAM can't keep up, a more powerful GPU may not give you the gains you are seeking. I have heard though Radeon GPU's are giving a18 B139 some probs. http://crongame.com/nitrogen/NitroGen_WorldGenerator_A18.zip Only issue is RWG. Use Nitrogen was updated to include new POI. Works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warmer Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 accidental double post. Can you delete these? Can't figure out how to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor3D Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 8GB RAM, GTX1660 (6GB), i5, 1080p. With medium settings for a18e, I get between 45-100+ fps. I'm pretty happy with the 1660, I can run most of my games on high or ultra. Yeah that's a good card. Probably the best value per dollar of an Nvidia card right now. You can snipe one for 200 bucks on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zootal Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Stuck a 1660 3GB in one of my linux boxes. Excellent performance with A18...so far. Haven't climbed up any towers yet, as that was the real fps killer for A17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristaris Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 This machine is using an RX 570, and it's handled everything fine barring the RWG but that doesn't bother me, really. It's an experimental build and it handles the game at high settings perfectly fine. RWG is whatever and isn't going to make or break things for me. Plus its price point is fantastic for what you get. I've played countless games with zero issues so I'm not sure what other problems people have. Previous card in this box was an R9 390 and it was great, as well for 1080 gaming. But as others have said, it's not always the GPU. Having the game on an SSD coupled with a decent CPU + plenty of ram is equally beneficial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz Man Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Something interesting to share. I noticed I get significantly better FPS with the Pregen02 map vs the Pregen01 map. In my pregen01 game my system memory is maxing out while in pregen01 it stays around 9GG out of 12GB. Anyone else notice this? Edit: I may just upgrade my system ram 1st as it's the cheaper initial investment. 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Something interesting to share. I noticed I get significantly better FPS with the Pregen02 map vs the Pregen01 map. In my pregen01 game my system memory is maxing out while in pregen01 it stays around 9GG out of 12GB. Anyone else notice this? Edit: I may just upgrade my system ram 1st as it's the cheaper initial investment. �� If you have pagefile enabled on an SSD, then running out of ram isn't too big of a deal as it would just use the SSD as ram. Of course, there might be a small performance hit, but likely not that bad. I personally wouldn't worry too much about that compared to video card since video card will benefit you for every game you play, ram will only benefit you for this 1 game... and maybe 1 or 2 others depending on what you're into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hixxydubz Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 i have a GTX 1080 and while i have found a fix for the fps issue somewhat, it still tanks my card, at some points it takes my card to 70 degrees celsius and my cpu similar with around 80 -90% usage, and that is when i am NOT streaming the game on twitch. I read some of their posts regarding this issue and it seems they are working on it so hopefully they can fix that soon as it hinders me playing it as i don't want to overcook my system into an early grave lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackplasma Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Why would you prefer to stick with a company that price gouges customers and barely outperforms the competition? You realize next year RDNA2 cards will destroy NVIDIA RTX lineup in ray tracing right? So will consoles Lmao. ATI fanboys also said that their framrates were going to double overnight with windows 10 and the introduction of DX12.... Still waiting for that day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGY5891 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 i have a ryzen 5 2600x / strix gtx 1060 6gb overclocked / 16gb / M2 SSD. i can run alpha 18 in ultra at 40 fps - 60 fps havent tried high and medium settings yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caverz Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 My 960 4gb has me 40-60 on medium on windows 10 and 20-40 on linux mint with a 6 core amd cpu running at 3ghz and 16gb ram on a ssd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjurney Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I have 2 PC's that I run the game on, one for me and one for my wife. My wife gets the RTX2080 which runs the game fantastically. I was getting over 100+ frames before I locked it at 72 setting vsync to half. There was a small issue with the card sounding like it was going to blast to space when it reached 80c, but I seem to have gotten that resolved. The computer I use has a gtx 1050ti running on an AMD fx-8350 and 16 gb RAM. I get around 40-60 fps with medium settings with a few tweaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark97348 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Yeah, TFP made the game unplayable for 90% of their players. A17 and A18 both. Frame rates are so crappy I have not played since A17 was released. I have I7 CPU with 16 GB RAM, Geforce 960 with 2GB of video RAM. Was getting 3-5 FPS with default settings. Even tried 1600 x 900 with every setting turned off or to low (what ever lowest setting was) and still barely getting 30 FPS with spikes down into the teens. It doesn't have to be imacculate, but make it playable on the lowest of settings without needing a $1000 video card to play it. I even hear the Streamers moaning about the frame rates and they usually have very hihg end computers. Very disappointed with TFP lack of consideration for making the game playable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ti2xGr Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Yeah, TFP made the game unplayable for 90% of their players. A17 and A18 both. Frame rates are so crappy I have not played since A17 was released. I have I7 CPU with 16 GB RAM, Geforce 960 with 2GB of video RAM. Was getting 3-5 FPS with default settings. Even tried 1600 x 900 with every setting turned off or to low (what ever lowest setting was) and still barely getting 30 FPS with spikes down into the teens. It doesn't have to be imacculate, but make it playable on the lowest of settings without needing a $1000 video card to play it. I even hear the Streamers moaning about the frame rates and they usually have very hihg end computers. Very disappointed with TFP lack of consideration for making the game playable... I get what you're going through. I've been scratching my head since day one at some majorly messed up frame rates randomly. However, it looks like they figured out that a bunch of textures weren't set to stream properly, eating up VRAM. They are working on it now and expect significant improvements on the next minor patch. I did recently purchase a new video card specifically for this game because my 1070 plays all my other games great. It's the price we pay for playing an Alpha game. We just have to be patient. I've been reading through the forums and experimenting, trying to get it working somewhat reasonable. Here is a list of basic things I've been reading and determine help - F1 Command Line (in game) Followed by: GFX DT (To disable draw distance) GFX PP ENABLE 0 (Type 1 instead to reenable) NVidia Control panel AF (Antistropic Filtering) set to 2X Texture Filtering Quality set to PERFORMANCE In Game visual Turn down resolution In Quality settings: Turn off Shadows and reflections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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