ALL Graphics Settings in Elite Dangerous FULLY Explained! (Ultra, High, Medium, Low, VR, 4K, 8K)

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In this Elite Dangerous tutorial by EDTutorials by Exigeous we look at how to get the most out of the graphics settings in Elite Dangerous by fully explained them for ultra, high, medium, low and VR, 4K and even 8K gaming. In this exhausting analysis we look at each and every graphical setting Elite Dangerous has to offer. We'll look at how I performed these tests, the test system and the effects both visually and in terms of framerate on each and every setting available.
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▶️ALL Data (Google Sheet)
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▶️▶️Testing System
Core i9 10900k @ 5.2Ghz on all cores
RTX 2080Ti @ 2.1Ghz
32GB DDR4-3600 RAM
512GB Samsung 970 Pro NVMe
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Track: Artemis
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▶️Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:38 Methodology
1:52 Presets
3:13 Texture
4:19 Shadow
6:29 Bloom
7:24 Anti-Aliasing
9:34 Supersampling
11:20 Ambient Occlusion
12:48 Environment
13:39 FX
15:30 Depth of Field
16:23 Material
17:05 Galaxy Map
17:52 Terrain
18:31 LOD Blending
19:29 Ter Work
20:13 Ter Material
21:14 Ter Sampler
22:22 Jet Cone
23:09 Volumetric
24:47 Conclusion
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@Exigeous 3 года назад

NOTE ON ODYSSEY: Yes, when Odyssey comes out I'll certainly be updating this for whatever changes we get there.

@alratekk2631 3 года назад

I just wanted to let you know that I figured out what jet-cone quality does. It alters the quality of things *in front* of the jet-cones, not the jet-cones themselves. For example, asteroids or bobbleheads.

@Tcherkrick 3 года назад

Great video! Looking forward to the next video on odyssey!

@centronox 3 года назад

You get a like and a sub for all your hard work sir, thank you for this. Look forward to seeing the new video after Odyssey comes out.

@kato2182 3 года назад

so i used all these settings for odyssey and i’m forced to keep supersampling to 1.0 anything lower and game is so crap

@mrtrainee 3 года назад

so what's the deal with the "ULTRAFORCECAPTURE" setting for terrain?

@Exigeous 3 года назад

This is BY FAR my most ambitious video ever - as such there are likely a few mistakes in it so I'll update this comment with new information. Specifically Volumetric Effects were impossible to work out making me think there is likely a bug somewhere. Please also remember I can only test with the machine available to me and as such this should be seen as a general guide to give you an idea of the impact of each setting, in short your mileage may vary - and greatly. It was a lot of fun to put together and has been on my to-do list since literally the day I started this channel, 2.5 years ago (as of writing). Enjoy! NOTE: I've linked a forum thread where I was discussing all this during my research and the Reddit thread for the video in the description if you're so inclined.

@BendeBoas 3 года назад

Thanks again, CMDR. Great video. o7

@rempha 3 года назад

Thank you for your effort on putting toghether all this information. This is very useful to optimize especially when I am running ED on my non-gaming laptop (NVIDIA Quadro M1200 which is based on GeForce GTX 960M).

@thomgadget 3 года назад

Fantastic work on this, very informative and extremely well presented. Thanks!

@CmdrPPanda 3 года назад

Bravo ,Bravo , Bravo . Exquisite piece of work. Nice to have this in your Exigepedia :)

@acegh0st 3 года назад

I was just noticing that there is volumetric fog falling from the ceiling when you are sitting inside a station. Perhaps that is somewhere you could test the effects of the volumetric effects setting?

@HMS_Thunderwolf 3 года назад

Start of the video: this should be interesting 6mins in: ok, i need a note pad....

@Exigeous 3 года назад

Well that's why I add the chapter marks, so it's easy enough to skip around and use it as a "tool" when you come back.

@HMS_Thunderwolf 3 года назад

@@Exigeous doesn't remove my need for a note pad, but that was helpful.

@tsilb 3 года назад

25 mins in: I don't know why I'm still here, but I... can't... look... away...

@gamesinsight3800 3 года назад

Also needed Notepad :) Directly marking which settings I could use or not given the impact ;)

@plutoidrepublic2765 3 года назад

@@tsilb 500 years in: my skeleton must inhale this data

@DeanCalaway 3 года назад

Regarding Jet Cones, I found very odd a ~14% impact for no visual difference, so I went to check it out and at 1080p there is a big one, I just made a video about it for anyone that cares to check. TL;DR: at Medium the Jet Cone gets very jaggy at 1080p, I would recommend High unless to anyone unless it's really chugging the system down. I'm guessing Exigious runs at a very high resolution that is just cleaning up that edge, but at 1080p there is a day/night difference.

@yuboon 3 года назад

I'm not sure why this is not being upvoted. Great job man.

@darkzide7558 3 года назад

THANK YOU for making this video.

@Exigeous 3 года назад

No no Darkzide, thank YOU!

@wileywilson 3 года назад

@@Exigeous. Yeah, thanks for doing this man. Really appreciate it. I remember pouring over "Nvidia's Comprehensive Skyrim tweak guide" when that game came out, for hours! BTW, I'm looking forward to your updated guide when the Nvidia 3000 series land! ;)

@GhostGiraffe 3 года назад

Great work! I had "optimized" these using trial and error but had no real idea what they really did. Now I realize I had a bunch of things wrong and have not only made changes but also learned what they do. Thanks so much for all this work.

@Exigeous 3 года назад

You're most welcome my friend, high praise coming from you for sure. Very glad you found it useful as it really was a shit ton of work to pull it all together.

@GhostGiraffe 3 года назад

@@Exigeous The biggest "small" improvement are quality of the orbit lines. No longer so aliased! It's a small improvement that makes such a difference.

@Monody512 3 года назад

FX Quality also controls the ripple distortion effects seen when entering supercruise or hyperspace, and around Thargoid ships. Setting it to medium or lower disables these effects. I personally dislike these effects, so I run on medium.

@Exigeous 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing - I certainly didn't intend this to be exhaustive to every single thing that's effected, as it was already a shit ton of work to figure out what I did. So I appreciate you sharing this.

@FeralEngineer 3 года назад

Special thanks for the performance cost of each setting! I had stable 60 fps with an OC'ed 1060, upgraded to 2070S, cranked all settings up and started getting severe frame rate drops during neutron star encounters and less severe ones on stations. This video definitely saved me a couple of hours in optimizing "performance vs. quality" I'd perform through mostly uneducated A-B testing.

@dolemite888 3 года назад

Not only is this useful for ED, but settings being explained in general. Clear cut and precise. Thanks man. Great job 👍

@Malic_VR 3 года назад

What I was trying to explain, you were running an edited graphics file because you used the video editor program, and is why you were not getting volumetrics to change. If you delete the XML and restart the game to have it rebuild it, you will be able to see them change in a volumetric area like a Lagrange cloud, things like asteroids use particle effects and you can see that change with FX changes

@CAL1MBO 3 года назад

@Spartacusse 3 года назад

In that case, is the difference really worth the 22% fps drop of ultra?

@Sean_Lightning_OBrien 3 года назад

As a VR player this is invaluable. Cheers

@Farrcast7 Год назад

Share your settings?

@LRR-333 Год назад

incredible analysis, absolutely crisp and very objective, easy to understand, 2 years later still using the video to check for ideas, awesome work and thanks!

@CMDR_Karkula 3 года назад

This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for discovering these graphical performance benchmarks for us! You have no idea how much this'helps!

@jgp9260 3 года назад

Your hard work putting this together, including editing, is highly appreciated. Thank you.

@brickstock 3 года назад

This is gold! Thank you so much, I've been hunting for years for something like this. Well Done! Mad respect from a Birmingham, UK VR commander.

@bournejsn 3 года назад

This is AWESOME. Thank you so much for saving me crazy amounts of time fiddling and getting lost in whats working and what isn't. Thanks Exigeous!!!!!

@mr.borcherding7386 3 года назад

When reading the video description, I assumed you meant your analysis was exhaustive rather than exhausting. From the amount of effort put in, I would say it is both! I have played Elite for three years and this is the first video regarding visuals and settings I have found (supremely) helpful and has made the game look and run better. Thank you for your hard work!

@mancooncrest835 3 года назад

The single most helpful videos on ED settings I have ever seen! Thanks a lot for the massive effort!

@jaysonjota 3 года назад

Man! This is a beast video just amazing thank you for taking your time to help us

@chrishills5200 3 года назад

Watched the whole thing; super helpful! I can't wait to try these settings with my VR system. Thanks for the hard work.

@doobs46 3 года назад

Thank you for this. I am getting ready to jump down the rabbit hole of optimizing my settings. I have spent days adjusting settings for other games. This should help minimize adjusting time.

@Pupixario 3 года назад

Many times I came back to this video. Recently, built a new PC and revisited it. Just want to thank you once again for it and all the hard work you put in to it!

@gamesinsight3800 3 года назад

Awesome work! I made notes about what I think could impact my VR the most and will check the performance again now. Very VEEERY good work and helpful. Thank you!!!

@BamaChad-W4CHD 2 года назад

Man what an amazing video! Big props to you for doing this. This is by far the best ED graphics settings video. We appreciate the time and effort you put in this. It had to be very challenging to say the least.

@rudhvelyn 3 года назад

GREAT VIDEO! I love when people make highly detailed videos like this it is super easy to understand and can obviously see the difference. Very helpful! Thank you so much! :)

@Beypocket 3 года назад

Watched this on your website, had to come over to like and say thanks for the video. Even on a 1080, tweaking a few of these helped me a bunch when I didn't even think I needed it before I watch.

@AstroKing9619 3 года назад

The amount of work put into this is awesome, you’re a blessing CMDR o7

@rigjockey67 3 года назад

Fantastic video !! I'm nerdy enough to find this absolutely interesting!

@javierCampeones 3 года назад

Fantastic video. The most useful here on this subject. Great job and thank you!

@jimr5703 3 года назад

Now THIS was a useful video. Helped me get the most out of my GPU and retain acceptable visual feedback with solid framerates. Took a little experimenting, but it's been fun! Subscribed.

@daveangel2991 3 года назад

Thank you very much for all your hard work on this. As I've recently bought a Rift S, I can now make sense of some of the settings, and tweak them accordingly. Cheers!

@GerLeahy 3 года назад

This is the video I have been looking for since I started playing the game. Thanks.

@tuppers55 3 года назад

WOW!!!! The detail in this video is amazing, thank you for the effort and your time.

@daro6009 3 года назад

Awesome tutorial Exigeous, huge fun of your work! Always in point and short!

@mrspaceman2764 2 года назад

Best ED settings video ever. You made my holiday. 3080ti with Reverb G2 and you're guide allowed me to get the perfect balance of beauty and smoothness!

@taylorbrown9849 Год назад

This video deserves more than a couple thousand likes; amazing effort Exigeous! I learned quite a few things for tuning my client for VR, and it runs much better now!

@tnbison 3 года назад

Simply outstanding. Will be tweaking settings as I rewatch the video again.

@ilanshemes1562 3 года назад

Dude! I can't believe you posted this video today! I installed Elite Dangerous last night on a laptop so I can play while not at home, but I was having frame rate problems and the graphics settings page looked overwhelming. And here you are with this video. Bravo! Thank you!

@Exigeous 3 года назад

Whew, good, I really was trying to get it out in time for just you, glad that worked out! :D

@T1Jafo 3 года назад

Great content and explanations. A lot of useful information. Your hard work has proven itself once again. (Although it might not seem like it to the viewers, this has to be one your longest production videos. )

@Exigeous 3 года назад

Not only my longest but I think it's roughly _3 times_ longer than my next longest video!

@Chrakker 3 года назад

Great video and finally some clarification for these settings that dazzled many players for years!

@awolfdrawsnear5864 3 года назад

Absolutely excellent video. Thorough and well presented. Saved me so much trial and error time.

@Cirkaable 3 года назад

Wow! Great stuff! Thanks for making this!

@Hyporis71 Год назад

One of the most usefull videos for Elite i ever have seen. Comming from console to PC this is really helpfull

@DrTarte 3 года назад

Well ain't this a treat. Thanks for all the work that went into this!

@major347 3 года назад

Awesome 👍 most helpful video on performance impact i have see. Very well done.

@4englishlies875 3 года назад

Great video, and will be very helpful when I get back in and play, I have kids that play a lot more than me. This will make a big impact on my game when I play I see it now. Thanks for taking the time to do this. When I looked at the Graphics settings I was like hey kids what dose this mean? ......lol

@Adamek125pl 2 года назад

Again and again I find your videos extremely valuable and enlightening. Salute Cmdr O7 and thank you very much!

@oneofdavidsmightymen 3 года назад

Excellent and well worth your time to make this informative and useful video

@jeromepotier5369 3 года назад

Well, I never saw a benchmark video with such in depth details ... kudos !!

@Jarduk 3 года назад

Awesome Video. Just got my Valve Index and this helped getting stable 90 Frames. Thank you!

@VerticalBlank 3 года назад

This is incredibly useful; thank you for all the hard work!

@manic_miner 2 года назад

Really appreciate you doing the work to put this up. Look forward to your Odyssey version more than you probably are to making it :)

@erikjalefors9377 3 года назад

very helpful mate ! thanks for the great content !

@ArjunNalapatonline 3 года назад

This is one of the most useful videos I've seen. Thank you so much for the work you did on this. It's really created an impact on running the game on my system. I hope you will update this once odyssey comes out as there may be differences and may be even more settings then. They do a poor job of describing these settings in game and that empty description box on the right in settings is a joke.

@Exigeous 3 года назад

Yep, as many have asked yes, I will absolutely update this for Odyssey.

@sosborn1000 3 года назад

I've become a patreon on the strength of this video. So useful and clearly so much work to produce. Thanks once again Cmdr Exigeous! o7

@Krampfey 3 года назад

Your work is truly underrated, sir. Thank you so much for the wide range of informations in your Videos!

@kwidmayer 2 года назад

Every one of your videos are informative, thought out and easy to follow. Thank you for the help. O7

@potteryjoe Год назад

Definitely valuable info. Love to see an update with the newest settings that weren't included.

@riccardoortoleva680 2 года назад

Very high quality video, thank you dude!

@TheAlchemisification 3 года назад

This is excellent timing. Having just brought a new PC running a 2080 Super and an Acer 27" Raptor I can now really ramp things up. Thank you very much!!!

@eRGo369 3 года назад

such piece of great work cmdr!! thnx you!

@wellzarak4382 3 года назад

I really needed this for a long long time. Thank you so much for that, i really appreciate this job.

@yankunflies 3 года назад

This is a great vid. Thanks, Commander!

@TheNepharim 3 года назад

Thank you for a great video and your research, I just started with ED and VR, a really great help👍👍👍

@JimJamsMusic 3 года назад

Great video man! Your efforts are very much appreciated!

@cmdrablearry3815 3 года назад

Many thanks for the time and effort you put into this video. I reset the game graphics on my reasonably high end computer using your advice and it's made a genuine difference. Vert much appreciated my good man.

@DJ70906 3 года назад

Fantastic guide mate, just what i needed, Thank you, genuinely.

@GaveLJorgensson 3 года назад

Thanks for all the hard work on this!

@samuraiogcc 3 года назад

This video needs more love. Thanks for making it!!

@bdlotus3504 3 года назад

wonderfully concise and informative.

@Flowtastic2000flo 3 года назад

Wow mate. Such a detailed look. Thanks a lot for your research commander o7.

@Slavic_Sky 3 года назад

Excellent, very informative and super helpful. Now I know all about graphics settings in ED. Big o7 to you cmdr!

@WagWaggers 3 года назад

Epic video!!! I shall be using all this excellent information to tune Elite for my PC. Thanks CMDR o7

@wittmurse14 3 года назад

Extremely useful information especially for VR pilots. Thanks!!!

@chrisrowland7782 3 года назад

Amazing video, and much needed! The detail is impeccable and it's a perfect achievement in elite dangerous content creation! Next challenge, editing the graphics configuration file to make elite even more realistic, going beyond what ultra settings do and really benchmarking your rig! Bonus challenge, dive into reshade and how it can be used to really make elite as real as it can possibly look. Hit me up of you want help diving into some of that.

@Exigeous 3 года назад

You just nailed the next one in the series - the XML file, Reshade, etc. - everything you can do to make it look even better. Wanted this to be the baseline as it was already crazy long.

@fleetc 2 года назад

Fantastic work!

@robertlee2473 3 года назад

Awesome vid, just upgraded from the rift cv1 to the index and i was getting bad fps with a rtx 2080 until i used your vid to optimize everything :)

@o.s.2056 3 года назад

Great video, very helpful. Thank you very much.

@Lordsun122 3 года назад

Fantastic vid! Thanks!

@dabruuzer 3 года назад

Fantastic, and greatly helpful, video. I am a returning player (last played in 2016) and am now relegated to a laptop with only a 1050 in it (at least it has an i7, SSD and 16GB of DDR4), but playing on an attached 27" 1080p monitor. It runs very well, surprisingly, now that I have tuned it based on your recommendations. Subscribed!

@SmashPhysical Год назад

Thanks for this video!! My graphics under Odyssey were markedly inferior to what I had under Horizons, but thanks to the advice presented here it now looks great!

@greatdanexlks 3 года назад

Wow. Thank you once again Cmdr Exiguous. Hopely I can fix Elite with your help.

@kwlxxi4813 Год назад

Thanks a lot for this video. Much appreciated

@owenjones2376 3 года назад

Outstanding work. Massive thanks for this.

@NeoFire99 3 года назад

Neoflame here- Seriously the best most helpful video ever!!

@CyberPrussian 3 года назад

This is an awesome video, thank you for your work!

@AdmLancel 3 года назад

This is something I've been meaning to do for a long time, as I've found my GTX 1070 is sort of on the edge between a compelling VR experience and space sickness, with things like the SRV and stations causing the framerate to drop. I'll be sure to make some adjustments based on your findings, as I'm pretty sure I'm using one or two of those settings with next to no visual impact and yet have a disgusting performance hit. Thanks for all your hard work, Exigeous! It's much appreciated!

@BZAKether Год назад

Excellent video, thank you a lot!

@AlesStibal 3 года назад

excellent work, thanks!

@gort5583 3 года назад

Great work! Really appreciate your time and effort.

@vvvAVATARvvv 2 года назад

Thank you very much. That was very helpful.

@SledgeFox 3 года назад

Thank you for your time and work you put into this to help us, very much appreciated, thank you very much!

@kenmalm6859 2 года назад

Thank you for the hard work. I would not do this myself. Now I got optimal settings.

@Josh-bb3xi 3 года назад

Volumetric effects are meaningful for VR players. It's a known issue with particular and older headsets that anything lower than ultra causes various objects, primarily the rocks in rings/RES, to blur, worsening at higher speeds. For VR players experiencing issues like this, cranking volumetric effects as high as they will go is essentially mandatory, even at the expense of other quality settings or higher framerates, unless you don't mind being unable to see in a RES. Depending on build, tinkering with different drivers can. improve or worsen this issue.

@Ed-ty1kr 3 года назад

Outstanding channel, I'm impressed. 👍

@majorcoolerman22 3 года назад

Great video, been running with everything set to max but had some issues with fps dropping massivly in icy asteroid belts and some stations, used your tips and now quite butter smooth with 1050ti and i5-7500.