What Video Card do You Use?

[Goggles56]

I suppose my video card is sort of middle of the road or maybe closer to the ditch. I was wondering what video cards you guys use and what graphics settings you run them on? Are you satisfied and what is a good video card for this game that won't break the bank?

I can run my card at the Ultra setting and don't see much difference when I knock it back a notch. I see lot's of shimmering in any setting and it does get annoying after a while. I don't know if that's my video card or the settings I am running. I tried some different things and not much changes. I also tried running the game in Open GL which was very smooth but produces some sort of alien moonscape that doesn't exactly look like this world.

Anyway, just wondering if it's my card, PC or the game that produces the shimmering.

Oh, and how do you measure frame rate?

[Asigion]

I have some shimmering and I use RTX 2080 Ti with a 43 inch 4k monitor on max settings at 300. I think it is intrinsic with the game because I have been trying to eliminate it for years.

You can have your FPS showing by selecting Steam in the top left corner of the screen and select In-Game and then turn on In-Game FPS Counter. I have Nvidia G-Sync so it shows my FPS with that.

[DaBucs]

nvidia card? I have seen posts with regards to the cards and the shimmering...someone has posted links to some nvidia profiler or something that can help get rid of the shimmering i believe...just do a search here

[Trucker Bob]

Like Willy, I too have a 2080 ti founders edition. Just bought it to replace my GTX960. Was like stepping out of the stone age, even in a game like this.

As far as graphics settings i have everything maxed out to ultra or high and scaling at 300%. I bought this card used from a friend of mine. But even a couple years old you'll still pay a chunk of money for these new or used. So if you are on a tighter budget but want to upgrade to a decent card maybe try a 1060ti or so? I got one of those on a laptop and the game looks nice on it too.

You don't want to use Open GL if you're running on Windows (I think...someone can correct me on that). Assuming you are on windows you will want to just select "Play...." and it will automatically default to your DX version, don't think you have to specifically choose the DirectX option). Shimmering sounds like it is probably your card.

And my 960 was doing that exact same thing but on a different game (RDR2) on lower settings. But I had that card for probably 4 or 5 years and even then I bought that used. So it was well due for an upgrade. As far as Frame Rates go, I think there is an Option in Steam settings to show that for any game you are playing on it.

[Goose_Few]

I'm ages behind GPU wise, I use an AMD ATi Radeon 6990 Crossfire disabled.

Game at high, 200% runs quite stable.

AFIK trying to get a new GPU is quite hard, the semiconductors shortage plus ppl using it to mine, price range is around $3000 USD, that is more than a down payment for a new car here... have to think it twice before expending that kind of money

[Wolfgang]

*cough*GTX1050 4GB VRAM*cough*
Settings mid to low. Getting stable 60FPS.

[Goggles56]

Well, it looks like my Radeon R9 Fury X is outdated by some measure. I'll to a frame rate check and see where that leads.

Thanks for the input guys.

[SecretOne]

Nvidia RTX 2070
Everything Ultra or High (whichever is the highest).
1920 x 1200 locked at 60fps (vSync on) due to my 3 monitors being 60hz. I only use 1 monitor now because I have a tobii 4c eye/headtracker.
Was getting well over 120+ across 3 monitors before capping it.

I now use the Nvidia Property Inspector (NPI) and have changed the settings for ATS/ETS2 according to the instruction found here.
https://roextended.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1000
Steps 1, 2 and 3. and then the "MID TO HIGH FPS HIT" as listed further down on that page with the following in launch parameters of the game(s)

-64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -mm_pool_size 4000 -mm_max_resource_size 32 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000

The graphics and anti-aliasing are now brilliant and no shimmering at all. I am still hitting 60fps without a single glitch, everything and I mean everything is so much better. I have not tried it without vSync.
The popping of objects into view has all but been eliminated, very, very occasionally I will see something far away get its "2nd" graphics added.
I am tempted to adjust the settings up a bit more to try and make it even better.
I will be hard to go back to "standard" and hopefully the people who created that guide will update for 1.40.
Only issue is you have to apply the settings in NPI after a graphics driver update. Not really and issue as once it is setup just export the profile(s) for ATS/ETS2 and after a change import them.

[jasonharris2]

gtx 960

[Digital X]

RTX 3080.

Managed to get it thanks to a stock alert discord at CCL Online.

Regarding graphic settings, It's using a custom NPI Profile, so cannot use insane scaling etc.

https://roextended.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1000&sid=7ce18c2ae8d2457b818b8406c8d6a51f

[Goggles56]

Well it looks like I am in the market for a new graphics card. Really tight supply out there right now so I did a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with mine and came up with a workable solution that still looks pretty good with a whole lot less shimmering. Here's what I found...

I first set up the frame rate counter (thanks for the tip)

I was getting 40 fps on high and ultra, no difference. Shimmering was really bad.
I tried Medium and frame rate jumped to a steady 60. Really ugly scenery though and the road looked pretty boring.

I then started messing with every setting under medium and ended up with a steady 60 fps with these settings

Full Screen Mode - Checked
Brightness - About 2/5th's on the slider
Resolution - 1920 x 1060
Refresh Rate - 60Hz
Vertical Synchronization - Enabled
Advanced Graphicl Settings Simple Settings
Scaling - 100%
Antialiasing - High
Screen Space Ambiant Oclusion - Medium
High Dynamic Range - Checked
Depth of Field - Checked
Sunshafts - Checked
Color Correction - Checked
Reflection Detail - Medium
Vegetation Detail - Medium
Grass Density - High
Shadow Quality - Medium
Shadow Texture Size - High (looked way better at High and didn't change fps)
Weather Quality - High
Mirror Quality - Medium
Mirror Resolution - Medium
Mirror Distance - Low (setting this higher dropped fps quite a bit, low got back to 60 fps)
Texture Quality - Medium
Anisptropic Filtering - About 1/6th on the slider
Normal Maps - Checked
Traffic Headlights - Checked
Secondary Vehicle Lights - Checked
Light Visibility Range - Low
Pedestrians - Run over....Ooops, I mean Checked

These setting will get me through until I can get a better card.

Thanks again for the input.

[C-GMAL]

Running the RTX 2080 Super and still had some shimmering but thanks to Wombat Trucker and his instructions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4vgYwUSndE&list=WL&index=11 They are pretty close to being gone.

[apophis37]

for u guys in the US, seeing as gpu's are so expensive there, why not order one in europe or asia and have it shipped over?

[Goggles56]

The best deal I have found is in the UK for the card I am looking at. Much better price. I'm in Canada so shipping is not as expensive as to the US. I'm seriously considering switching to Nvidea from Radeon.

[SgT_Meowmers]

ryzen 5 5600x
gtx 1080
all maxed 1440p

[Sandhill]

9700k
GTX 1080 FTW2
all maxed 1440P/144