PC Recommended Video Card for A18e?

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.

 
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. 😅

 
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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. ��
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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.

 
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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!

 
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.
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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...

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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...

 
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...
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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

 
So you have GTX 960.. If I remember correctly madmole himself bought GTX 970 for his pc several Alphas ago. Not sure if he still uses the same hardware, but maybe someone with the same card could tell you how does it run on their pc. I don't know how much USD that would be for you, but if you have a limited budget, I guess it's either that or save for a better card...

 
No I didnt know that. That's why I made a post asking for recommendations. Thanks for the insight. 👍
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Ignore any foolish attempts to get you to buy outside of Nvidia.

...non Nvidia card users have a plethora of problems with a plethora of games, in 7days there is an Rwg generation issue with amd cards, just as an example.

Don't. Go. There.

Nvidia only, homie.

 
I'm not saying it is impossible to buy a better card. What I am saying is it is rediculous to expect everyone to buy a $1k card to play a video game. A card that is only a couple years old should be able to run the game on low graphics settings. But to put everything on low and turn off many other features and still not get 30 FPS is crap. Otherwise they are alienating many players who have enjoyed the game, but don't have an extra $1k laying around for a new video card. I have hundreds of hours into this game and now it is unplayable.

For reference, I played A13 and A14 on my old Geforce 460 and got plenty good frame rate. I played A15 and A16 on my Geforce 960 and it ran great. But when they went to A17 and A18, you now need a supercomputer to run the game.

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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
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Thanks for the post. Will give this a try.

 
Yeh it's super inconsiderate of the pimps... They should release it as a special version you have to manually opt into, with a huge disclaimer about it having potential issues...

...oh, then they should acknowledge the problem immediately, and then try and figure out the cause, then they should suggest a few things to try and mitigate the issue, oh yeh and once they figure out a good solution? They should test it a bunch and then release an update for oh, let's call it an "experimental" version...

Oh, wait.

 
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no need to be rude Guppycar.

Yes, A18 is in experimental. But A17 was out for a year and for me and my computer, it was unplayable and all the friends that I used to play the game with also can no longer play because of the rediculous hardware needed to run it. No reason to expect A18 to be playable since they never fixed A17 to be playable for many 7 Days players.

My point is this, a large percentage of the buyers of this game bought it and they could play it great. TFP just keeps upping the system requirements to where people who own the game cannot play it any longer. Just trying to get TFP to consider that the game should be able to still be run (even if on low settings) rather than making it totally unplayable for so many.

Avid gamers may update their entire rig every 1-2 years. But much of the player base does not want to update their hardware continuously. Maybe for new games, but usually not for a game they already own. At least this is my opinion and the opinion of all the players I used to play with in real life that no longer play because of this issue. And we are not alone since there are dozens (maybe into the hundreds of players) begging in the forums for what settings to choose so they can play.

I appreciate TFP hard work on A17 and A18. Watching the video on streamers weekend was pretty. I just think they have abandoned a significant portion of their player base with the past two alphas having significant FPS issues...

 
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Gtx 980ti and Titan X can be bought for under $100, similar to a 1070 in performance with a 980ti slightly surpassing it.

If you buy used of course. And most retailers offer buyer protection.

I have even seen used 1080ti's under 330$

 
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Gtx 980ti and Titan X can be bought for under $100, similar to a 1070 in performance with a 980ti slightly surpassing it.
If you buy used of course. And most retailers offer buyer protection.

I have even seen used 1080ti's under 330$
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Nope, no thanks. Those cards are often used for mining. That and the GTX 1070.

 
Hi gang, I decided to do a ram upgrade for now as it's the cheaper alternative. Should bump me up to 24gb total, 2 x 8gb (new) + 2 x 4gb dimms (existing). Will report back once its Delivered and installed...😅

 
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