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08 Nov 2020 11:24

wow your video card isn't much worse than mine....I have the 1060 6 GB

You should try my settings.... 720P cap frame rates to 30fps and ultra preset.
 
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08 Nov 2020 21:28

wow your video card isn't much worse than mine....I have the 1060 6 GB

You should try my settings.... 720P cap frame rates to 30fps and ultra preset.
I think it only has 4GB of video memory, not really a lot for hi-res 3D graphics.  Perhaps I should try it at 720p, but I have been somewhat spoiled by my 1920 by 1080 monitor.

Funny thing is, one of my oldest TVs is and LCD with a native resolution of 720 lines. I like the picture quality better than some of the newer 1080-line LED TVs. I routinely resample my screenshots from 1920 by 1080 to 1280 by 720 and put them on as SD card. There's an SD slot in my TV so I play a slide show occasionally. They actually look quite good.

So... there's an idea — I should rearrange/relocate my desk and plug the PC into the TV. Lower resolution, but larger screen. And I'd run it at native 720. Thanks for putting the idea in my head, Alex. :)
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08 Nov 2020 22:36

wow your video card isn't much worse than mine....I have the 1060 6 GB

You should try my settings.... 720P cap frame rates to 30fps and ultra preset.
I think it only has 4GB of video memory, not really a lot for hi-res 3D graphics.  Perhaps I should try it at 720p, but I have been somewhat spoiled by my 1920 by 1080 monitor.

Funny thing is, one of my oldest TVs is and LCD with a native resolution of 720 lines. I like the picture quality better than some of the newer 1080-line LED TVs. I routinely resample my screenshots from 1920 by 1080 to 1280 by 720 and put them on as SD card. There's an SD slot in my TV so I play a slide show occasionally. They actually look quite good.

So... there's an idea — I should rearrange/relocate my desk and plug the PC into the TV. Lower resolution, but larger screen. And I'd run it at native 720. Thanks for putting the idea in my head, Alex. :)

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Anytime fellow Alex!  I have a 32" 1080P TV and a 32" 720P TV both from the same company (Vizio) and I definitely like the colors and resolution better on the 720P model.  I wonder why.
I'm not sure how much RAM and cpu factor into the equation but I have an 8/16 c/t 2700X cpu and 16 GB of RAM with 32 GB spare set aside if I need it.

edit- you might want to skip "ultra" preset even at 720P.  I'm running a HUD that shows that setting is using all 6 GB of video memory lol.  For 4 GB VRAM I'd suggest either high or medium preset and setting cubemaps to 2K or even 1K.
 
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15 Nov 2020 02:22

Hey! Good stuff, guys. :)
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15 Nov 2020 17:23

I don't usually explore planet landscapes but turning up the mountains settings on one of my custom planets generated this canyon:

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I didn't measure how deep it was, but it's pretty either way
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15 Nov 2020 22:08

wow you made that planet yourself? what kind of settings did you use to get that much  clarity?  Is it 0990?
 
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15 Nov 2020 23:12

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It's 0.990, I took a procedurally-generated planet and began toying around with the settings. Maybe "custom" isn't the correct word to use here lol

Unfortunately I don't remember what settings I used because I ended up giving up and letting SE generate everything :/
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16 Nov 2020 00:58

Also just occurred to me you probably meant graphics settings, sorry about that
My landscape LOD is on 0.5 and my max landscape resolution is 480p. Everything else (that affects landscape quality) is default.
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I think I've developed a newfound love for photographing canyons in SE. The third one is my favourite
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16 Nov 2020 02:00

Yeah I have a few good canyon shots on here from a while back. I normally set all the graphics settings to max for the screenshots but run high to ultra normally (although at a lousy 14-20fps)
 
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hmm I am wondering if my settings are wrong....I'm using the Ultra Preset (do I need to set something on higher than Ultra?) and by landscape resolution do you mean the things listed under cubemap?  If so I have that set to 4096 lol.  If not, where do I find this landscape resolution setting?  Maybe because I am using the Ultra preset this part is blacked out for me?
 
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16 Nov 2020 12:40

Yeah, landscape resolution is blacked out under ultra, I have mine set to custom since my GPU is really particular about what runs well and what doesn't (if that makes sense)

This is what I have my graphics settings set to. I don't really know what everything does, I just have it set to what lags the least lol

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17 Nov 2020 03:49

These are my settings, ultra but with LOD and loading speed set to max.  It does work but rather jerky and slow but I rather put up with poor performance for the high visuals.

Some example pics with these settings.
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17 Nov 2020 12:48

My current settings get me ~15 FPS when loading planet landscapes and ~30 when out in space. On the other hand, my visuals aren't as nice as yours.

15-30 FPS is still pretty low compared to what I get with other games on this computer, but I used to use a 6-year-old laptop with 4GB of RAM so my standards are pretty low haha
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This round of pictures kind of has a story behind it:

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I added a moon to my planet and coincidentally, the orbital settings made it to where there was a solar eclipse on the 21st. The moon is big enough to cause a shadow on an entire hemisphere at a time; the planet is a super-terra about 1.5x Earth's radius while the moon is a bit bigger than Earth.

In reality this would probably be classified as a binary planet system but I've always been fascinated by the idea of super-earths with super-moons since I learned about them a few years ago

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There was also a lunar eclipse a couple of weeks later (sometime in early December, I can't remember the exact date). There's nothing too interesting about this, but I like how easily you can see the comet tail from another planet being vaporised by the star :)

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This is the other planet closer up. Not much to say here lol
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