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What's the best graphics card for this MMO?

midwayacemidwayace Member Posts: 146 Arc User
edited April 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I am in the market for a desktop. It will probably have to be a custom build so what graphics card is the absolute best for this game? Are there any tricks to lowering the UI lag?
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Nvidia Titan.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Supposedly since this game has the "Nvidia: The way it's meant to be played" logo, one can only assume it runs better on nvidia cards compared to AMD cards.

    Which nvidia graphics card has the best performance? That would supposedly be the most expensive one that was recently released. That would be the nVidia Titan X which sells for approximately $1,000 USD.
  • blakes7tvseriesblakes7tvseries Member Posts: 704 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

    You don't need a $900.00 Titan 3rd - 5th down on the list will be more than enough.

    Consider two cards if looking to do dual 4k monitors.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    "Best" is too vague without a budget to work with.

    Limitless budget? Nvidia Titan X.
  • potasssiumpotasssium Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I'm running this game just fine on a GTX 550 Ti, with dual screens running, and 16 GB of ram.
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  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I'm running just fine with no graphics card at all; I'm using the on-chip Intel Integrated graphics in my i3 CPU. I'm running near-max settings across the board, and I have no more lag than when I had an ATI-chip GPU. I bought the Intel CPU specifically to economize, but I can always add a PCIe card later if I come into some cash... :cool:
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    It's going to get into a mix of both the GPU and CPU for various things. It's also going to get into what you're looking to do...heh, "it depends"...and so forth. So like folks mentioned, perhaps a better framed question, eh? What monitor or monitors you're looking to drive and all the rest sort of thing...

    And for folks that might have an AMD/ATI preference...there's this thread to keep in mind:

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1399241

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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I always like the Nvidia brand of graphics card. Been using those for over a decade and love their product.
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  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    NVIDIA TITAN-X in 4 SLI configuration mode with latest drivers

    Not even kidding... those Fleet battles with alll sorts of NPCS hogging the screen, performance drops like crazy at max settings in 4K
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  • jarvisandalfredjarvisandalfred Member Posts: 1,549 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2015
    You'll get lots of 'this is best'. Some of them are right, from a performace as the only god perspective. But if you go here, and follow the sidebar'd directions, you'll get the whole pc build, one that's balanced, works together, does what you want, and is within your budget.

    This is like asking 'what last engineering console is best for my ship' without me knowing anything other than that you're an Engineer. I have no clue what the rest of your ship is, what your in-game budget is, or anything else. Go get the whole ship build.
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  • jameslogan87jameslogan87 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I have a AMD ASUS R9 290X and it looks awesome.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    this game engine is not really optimized for graphical performance, you find wild variations over each gamers computer when it comes to sto. i still have a reasonably good computer, not top of the range but more a solid mid-range computer, in places like sb24, it stutters like mad despite having the specifications that i could run this game on max 3x over without issues.
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    medalionemissary wrote: »
    NVIDIA TITAN-X in 4 SLI configuration mode with latest drivers

    "Now you're playing with power!" :eek:
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    in any event, im waiting on dx12 to come and the next generation graphics cards with dx12 support. at that point it wouldnt matter which card manufacturer i choose, both will be compatible to each other in dual mode due to the limitations on that end being removed. i hope its fully true though.
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  • imruinedimruined Member Posts: 1,457 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    jameslogan87 wrote: »
    I have a AMD ASUS R9 290X and it looks awesome.

    Yep, I was running at 1920x1080 (using a 32" LCD TV as a monitor), with everything set to max on an R9 280X Twin Frozr ($300-$350 card) and never experienced frame rate issues...

    I have however seen people running STO quite nicely on laptops with pretty basic on board graphics, just need to turn some of the settings down...
    The entitlement is strong in these forums...

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