PC Recommended Video Card for A18e?

My pc is a i5-7500, 24 gb ram, and a geforce 1070, it seems to be able to do 60 fps at 1080p, with some options disabled like bloom and such, might even be fine with them on I just shut them off as i hate those effects.
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The gtx 1060 is actually a fairly bad card performance wise, just like the 960 was bad. You want the xx70 or xx80 models. the xx60/50 geforce models are basically budget cards with performance to match.
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I completely disagree. I currently have a GTX 1060 FTW+ 6GB version with a slight overclock beyond the already default overclock and I personally am quite happy with it, running Rise of the Tomb Raider on max settings and pretty much all other games also on max settings (at 1080p). It may be inexpensive now, but it used to be priced at over $450 when it released. I don't know how well it performs with A18 of this game though as I don't have time to try it out. Besides, it's an unstable beta release, so not really interested.

I do agree with your statement about AMD GPUs not being as good as Nvidia in terms of drivers and whatnot... AMD GPUs just aren't worth the small savings.

 
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.

 
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Nvidia 1660ti is an excellent card for about $220. I'm running everything at highest settings (minus the motion blur) and it's a steady 60-70 fps. You could get a slightly more powerful AMD card for the same price BUT the problem is it uses twice as much power and the heat is crazy so you need more cooling or it throttles and the drivers suck. At max usage (using hashcat password cracker) it still only uses 110watts compared to the 220watts an rx590 card uses. And it's totally silent to boot.
I've owned both AMD and Nvidia cards and while AMD can give you more raw power for the same price there are serious tradeoffs like power, hear, and just the generally low quality of the manufacturing. I've never had to return a nvidia card and I've never had driver issues even though I use linux exclusively and linux is like the least supported OS for gaming.

The gtx1660ti with 6GB of ddr6 RAM for 110 watts at $220 dollars is probably one of the most cost /power/noise efficient cards out there. It is equivalent to a gtx1070 in power and roughly the same as a gtx2060 for most games (most games dont take advantage of gtx2060s newer features)

Hope that helps
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This helps, thanks.

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Guys gfx dt help with fps.
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I've tried this already and it only gives me 5 to 10 FPS but will do more testing with it.

 
I'd suggest waiting, saving up a little more money and buy something in a slightly pricier segment for increased performance and longevity. Incremental upgrades will cost you more in the long run.

It'll be weeks, if not months, before A18 will become stable (going on past experience). Even people with higher end cards are reporting problems, so there's little guarantee that upgrading your GPU is going to help you. For all we know it's CPUs causing these issues.

 
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.
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16GB of ram is more than enough for this game (or any other game)

 
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.

 
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.
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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.

 
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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) :)

 
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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.

 
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.

 
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.
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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.

 
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.
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been there ... will never ever buy a used video card again. :)

 
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.
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http://crongame.com/nitrogen/NitroGen_WorldGenerator_A18.zip

Only issue is RWG. Use Nitrogen was updated to include new POI. Works fine.

 
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accidental double post. Can you delete these? Can't figure out how to.

 
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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.
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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.

 
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.

 
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