Elite: Odyssey

Sakashiro
14 Aug 2022, 11:36am
Those photos are nice, but they don't represent what the game actually looks like most of the time.
Episparh
14 Aug 2022, 3:56pm
Yuna SakashiroThose photos are nice, but they don't represent what the game actually looks like most of the time.






Sakashiro
14 Aug 2022, 6:32pm
Or this:

Sheehy
14 Aug 2022, 7:04pm
Yuna SakashiroThose photos are nice, but they don't represent what the game actually looks like most of the time.


They pretty much do for me and I have an average PC. Don't know what you're doing wrong. Looking in all the wrong places? Who knows.

Got tonnes of these and could post them all day.

Pockmarked
Kurakil
14 Aug 2022, 7:18pm
Some terrain looks fine. Other terrain does not render properly... or it does render properly and looks like garbage. It has nothing to do with hardware and everything to do with coding. The only game settings I lower are the shadows and I still see textures that look great and textures that look like placeholders.
Episparh
14 Aug 2022, 7:35pm
What drives me crazy is the constant shadow flickering and re-texturing of terrain. I do not have a footage but just look the most recent video of CMDR Buur.





That is a game which was sold as fully finished 16 months ago. Yeah, you can make screenshots but that is all.

The game is still largely unfinished and poorly optimized.

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Kurakil
14 Aug 2022, 8:47pm
I noticed after the last update they restored the functionality of being able to access side panels while within the main station services menu... since it had been lost several updates ago.
Sakashiro
14 Aug 2022, 10:21pm
SheehyThey pretty much do for me and I have an average PC. Don't know what you're doing wrong. Looking in all the wrong places? Who knows.

It's not the PC. The game is just full of wrong places. Of course few photos are taken there, so only the shiny stuff ends up in galleries.
Alex Hoffmann
14 Aug 2022, 10:57pm
a few weeks ago i bought a new gfx card and did a bit research for optimization on fps and also terrain quality. finaly i found this site very usefull: Elite Wiki - Graphics Mods

i used the code for 8gb+ gpu and changed the LODDistanceScale to max. the ´Custom Display Quality Settings´ there was nearly identical with mine only two things i changed at mine.
scince them graphic is really much nicer than before and more smoother. no shadow flickering or else. looks great at my medium quality settings. here i found some display settings explained: Elite Dangerous Graphic Settings

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Silver Taffer
14 Aug 2022, 10:57pm
Yuna Sakashiro
SheehyThey pretty much do for me and I have an average PC. Don't know what you're doing wrong. Looking in all the wrong places? Who knows.


It's not the PC. The game is just full of wrong places. Of course few photos are taken there, so only the shiny stuff ends up in galleries.



Silver Taffer In my opinion that’s a conditional yes. Conditional, primarily, on whether your PC has mid to upper range specs.

It’s not a popular opinion here, I know, but I think Frontier have put a great deal of effort into optimising Odyssey, and it shows.
My two credits worth, for what it’s worth .......... *looks around for air raid bunker*


I rest my case
Sheehy
15 Aug 2022, 6:21am
Silver Taffer
Yuna Sakashiro
SheehyThey pretty much do for me and I have an average PC. Don't know what you're doing wrong. Looking in all the wrong places? Who knows.



It's not the PC. The game is just full of wrong places. Of course few photos are taken there, so only the shiny stuff ends up in galleries.




Silver Taffer In my opinion that’s a conditional yes. Conditional, primarily, on whether your PC has mid to upper range specs.

It’s not a popular opinion here, I know, but I think Frontier have put a great deal of effort into optimising Odyssey, and it shows.
My two credits worth, for what it’s worth .......... *looks around for air raid bunker*



I rest my case



Ooh, that case was heavy!

In any case, playing the game day in and day out, 99 times out of 100 I don't see these problems. When I do, it's momentary. Anyway, back to having fun... ciao

Sharp end of the sword
Sakashiro
15 Aug 2022, 7:17am
The terrain pixelation problem isn't hardware-related. It's not everywhere, but I can tell you plenty of coordinates where it occurs, and I guarantee you will see exactly the same thing if you go there. It isn't rare.

This was already discussed at length in Frontier's forum. Hardware blaming is always the first impulse, but even the guy with the top shelf GPU and plenty of tweaking skills couldn't make the pixels go away on his rig.
Kurakil
15 Aug 2022, 7:30am
Maybe you don't have many problems or bugs in the game but most players do. For instance, I consistently get a Black Adder crash when I use the Apex shuttles which only seems to trigger once the shuttle reaches its destination at a station and I try to disembark. Which means I have to restart the game and the shuttle has to take the entire trip again from start to finish. So now the trip time is doubled plus the time to restart. Or when certain planet terrain looks like someone ate a box of crayons and threw up, and you cannot distinguish the terrain from the scatter or the plants, and it is literally painful to look at even with ultra settings. There is plentiful evidence of poor coding and considering it has been well over a year, the game should have only minor problems at best, but instead improvements have been slow and not particularly impactful. In fact they have come out and said there are problems they will not be fixing because they require too much time and resources to fix.
Ultimately you can enjoy the game however you want but it doesn't change facts. There are numerous bugs and performance is terrible compared to other games of a similar visual quality or with similar hardware specs. Players with no/minimal problems in the game are the minority.
Oak7603
15 Aug 2022, 7:31am
A few weeks ago, I took a leap of faith to get Odyssey (after primarily being a PS4 Cmdr, but with a copy of ED on Steam) and had an average laptop. EDO ran OK on there if I didn't go to a settlement which was surprising after all the negativity that I kept getting bombarded with. Settlements aside, the settings were all on ultra and I just had to change the shadows. I've just bought a new laptop and EDO runs perfectly. No stutter, no graphics issues, no problems at all.

If there are any Cmdrs out there that havent tried EDO, give it a go if you can, you may be pleasantly surprised. I was, and I'm actually annoyed that I listened to all the negativity (which seems warranted initially to be fair) when I could have been playing the new stuff. Just need the console port to start to get my normal Cmdr back now.

Light-Hawk
15 Aug 2022, 8:01am
Oak7603A few weeks ago, I took a leap of faith to get Odyssey (after primarily being a PS4 Cmdr, but with a copy of ED on Steam) and had an average laptop. EDO ran OK on there if I didn't go to a settlement which was surprising after all the negativity that I kept getting bombarded with.


Upon release, it was settlements and station concourses where players noticed the biggest hit to game performance. I'm running a Ryzen 7 5800X, 32GB RAM, RTX 3090, and the game is installed on an SSD. When Odyssey released I was capping at 30 FPS in station concourses. Settlements were like watching a slide show. It's significantly better now but the sad part is that the community started digging into the game to find out what the problems were and in some cases it was really dumb. For example, if you went to a surface settlement and there was a fire, the smoke shader by itself would tank your performance. Even old GTX 980's are capable of adequately running Odyssey settlements if you went into the game files and disabled the smoke shader (reported difference was going from 19 FPS to 56 FPS). What's even sadder about this is that the smoke shader utilized was a barrowed asset from Horizons. It's the same smoke shader utilized in the mail slots of stations. Considering they managed to take a preexisting in-game asset and reuse it in such a poorly optimized way makes me question how well their current development staff understands their proprietary Cobra engine.

Link for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/rx8b8b/performance_issues_you_wont_believe_how_much_fps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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