Graphics Settings Rec?

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@draqonin wrote:

@EgoMania

WOW that's fabulous! I badly need a new one too. I can't play smoothly at all on most of recent games. I'm still shopping around and deciding lol

I kind of liked this Ready Gaming Desktop PC with Intel i7-7700 3.6GHz CPU, 8GB DDR4, NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB, 64-Bit at  $1.100.

But your processor is waaaay better. Not familiar with GTX though.

I'm not familiar with the Xbox One X u mention. I never used Xbox, only PC. I'll have to google that, because it sounds worthy just by the way u describe it. That's a good info u posted there. Thanks for that !

 

And yes these graphic transitions become a bump, i'm running ME:A at 1920x1080 ... but.... lol .... barely. All i could do for smooth play is trade between graphic settings. :eahigh_file:

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The GTX1060 is not a bad card and will run your games in 1920x1080 quite smoothly, but if possible I'd upgrade that 8GB to 16GB RAM. Currently your PC will take up 3GB of your RAM without running a game. ME:A will take 4-5GB RAM easily and that means you already get into trouble with 8GB RAM. These numbers are based on my own PC and just checking the task manager but at this moment I just have the internet open and Origin in the background and the RAM usage is over 4.6GB. Admittedly Edge takes about a GB easy by itself but without internet being open it's already 3GB that my system uses baseline.

Also BioWare games are kinda known for taking up RAM especially because they have a history of sloppy coding causing memory leaks which can eat up your RAM as you play over longer periods of time. I haven't specifically tested it on ME:A but bottom line is that I prefer to have a bit more RAM. I might even go 32GB myself but 16GB seems to do the trick just fine.

I think that 1920x1080 at ultra settings is really the base settings for ME:A for having a good graphics experience. This may be a personal standard, but for me running it on 2556x1440 already made a big improvement that I quite enjoy at the moment but for that resolution the GTX1070 is a better card. 

And of course for 4k a better card is needed still like the GTX1080Ti. The reason I haven't gone to full 4k gaming yet is that it is a pricey card but also because I'm not convinced yet that current games will all run smoothly in 4k graphics yet at high settings. Another thing to consider is your power bill and the power supply. The GTX1060 requires 120W, the GTX1070 150W and the GTX1080Ti requires 250W. That's a lot of power and your power supply might not be able to handle that.

Anyways, this is just some advice from a dabbler. I'm no expert but I can look up specs and check numbers 🙂