X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations

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Nosscar Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:42am
Pleasantly surprised, FX6300 & GTX 1060 6gb.
Bought the game today, and played for about about 1 hr, doing nothing much more than looking around in stations, flying in space, and travelled to another system, and i am really surprised it runs so well on my lowly AMD Fx6300, which i have had for over 5 yrs now.

Now there was no risk in me buying this game, as i am upgrading in 2 weeks to the Ryzen 2600, with new mobo and 16gb ddr 4 ram.
So i knew there would be no refunds needed.

So i started of in the young guns scenario, spawned at the station, i was getting 37-44 fps, did a few of the starter tutorials to get a feel for the ship, flying in space i was getting a constant 58-60 fps, MSI after burners riva tuner didn't work for the fps ingame display, so i enabled the steam fps display. (unfortunately doesnt show in the screenshots.
Traveling through the highway gates, still had 60 fps, so didnt seem to effect it at all, as soon as i approach a station, fps dropped to 45, still very acceptable with this cpu.

Also to note, the game installed perfectly with no problems, i remembered the issue reported with nvidia vsync, so i enabled 60 fps vsync in riva tuner, which appears to be working, as i never went above the fairly rock steady 60 fps in game when flying in space.

Overall a much better performance than i expected with this cpu, i know that as the game progresses, and i build stations and fleets, my cpu will probably slow to a crawl, just as it did in xrebirth, but i should have my shiny new ryzen by then.
So well done egosoft in my opinion, from the perspective of a first time installation, was stress free, and running well. I lowered my settings before starting as you can see below, and now cant wait to get my ryzen 5 2600 and bump them up to high at least, and dust off my Saitek X52 joystick.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/946216030053080885/C91112926B1ADDE583BBD4E0A3194A8287F49D1E/
Last edited by Nosscar; Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:43am
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Roan Woasbi Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:43am 
How much did they pay you to make this post?
Nosscar Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:45am 
Absolutely nothing, just speaking the truth and the facts of my first experience.
And if the screenshots would include the fps counter, i could prove it.

Last edited by Nosscar; Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:45am
Ralph_Rodriguez Dec 1, 2018 @ 8:03am 
i5-4690K, 16GB Ram and a 1060 6GB and it runs like a dream for me too at 1080p, harldy ever get dips below 60, and thats only a few times around stations.
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Date Posted: Dec 1, 2018 @ 7:42am
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