Asking for Some Speculation on EDGE Performance Optimization

I've been trying to get my friend into DCS for a while. He's very interested but he can't run the game well enough to enjoy it with his dinosaur hardware, and he can't really afford to spend money to upgrade yet. I'd like to tell him that EDGE might optimize performance enough where DCS might become somewhat playable for him but I really have no idea about that.

Does anyone have a more confident answer about this? (I know it's really just speculation, but I'd like to give him some hope if any can be found...)

Right now he can only get around 11-13 fps with all settings on Low. :cry:

'Confident speculation' would only be available from people under NDA. The rest of us speculate with various, but unsupported, levels of confidence. :)

It might help if we knew what hardware we are talking about.

Thanks for responding. :)

I'll ask him and get back to you.

Well edge will require better hardware aka higher minimum specs since it's using dx 11 so if his gear is ancient he will be worse off

He has an HP Pavilion from 2011. He's not too computer savvy so he doesn't know what model it is, but it's definitely a budget one. :cry:

I figure he can't expect much from it, but he might upgrade it in the future...

What do you guys think? Any hope?

Detailed computer specifications are available through two venues:

1) In Windows Control Panel, you can get a description of the computer that carries the broad strokes.

2) Start > Search > DxDiag

Gives an extremely detailed list (click "save to text file") that includes not only the hardware, but also drivers and peripherals.

While I cannot give specific comments (NDA, as people have mentioned), rcjonessnp175 has a faulty assumption in his post; that Dx11 requires stronger hardware. It does not. Several AAA-games (some of the CoD, Battlefield etc as examples) have indeed used two rendering channels as options - Dx9 and Dx10/11 (depending on timeframe), where both rendered the same result - but Dx10 and/or 11 does it faster due to the API being more efficient.

As for DCS World 2.0 with EDGE, system requirements and recommendations will be established as soon as possible and communicated at that time. Whether they will be higher or lower or the same I simply cannot say. (In part because during development, "requirements" will always be high, but code optimisations can then pull them down - sometimes only marginally, but sometimes a LOT...)

I would say its safe he will need to buy something new, not much chance he could upgrade it...

Tentatively agreed though, yeah.

Unless the person would have happened to have had a really strong Pavilion (there at least used to be "Pavilion" laptops that were almost "Alienware-style" - I had one back in 2006-2008 ) and also be happy with running at fairly low graphcal configurations.

Thanks guys.

EtherealN if you give me a few days I'll head over to his house and get the exact specs. :thumbup:

It's a desktop so you know. If he wanted he could put some better parts in it, couldn't he?

True.

It's looking like my next thread is going to be "Budget computers for my friend that will run DCS" :doh:

The root problem of an upgrade, to almost any 'off the shelf' desktop, is going to be the power supply.

Most likely, the machine does not contain a gaming grade graphics card. Assuming that it is possible to install one, the existing power supply will almost certainly be too weak to handle it. Now you need a new PSU as well, which also, may or may not, fit in the existing case.

It is, unfortunately, quite likely that the only keeper parts will be the hard disk, optical disk and (if you are lucky) the case.

By all means, do check out the machine since pleasant surprises do happen. Perhaps there will be something worth doing.

True.

It's looking like my next thread is going to be "Budget computers for my friend that will run DCS" :doh:

"If you want to do something well, you need to get the right tools." （工欲善其事，必先利其器。） It's an old Chinese saying. Makes a lot of sense in your friend's case. :smartass: