Question about a graphic card and ESO

JacobCora

Greetings!

It seems that the "good" graphic card of my 6-years-old laptop has decided to take an eternal nap, so now I'm looking for a desktop computer.

The good PCs for gaming are a little too expensive for me, but I have found a solution that I could afford.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GDDR5 6 GB
Intel® Core™ i7 8700 (6 cores)
16GB RAM

Does anyone have any experience with that graphic card and ESO?

I would like to know if the game is going to run fine with that computer.

Thanks for any help provided!

Stovahkiin

That graphics card is more than enough for eso (I have that one). Overall, the 1060 should be able to handle the majority of modern games as long as you’re playing at 1080p.

Inarre

Well this might be a bit of a crapshoot to find someone who has exact specs as you. I've been running i7-4790, 16GB ram and GTX-1070 and it's been great for almost 2 years now. I never get latency except for master merchant throttle upon startup in busy zones. FPS always hovering around max on max graphics settings. Busy raids and PVP areas usually around 60fps (though I don't venture to vivec often). I imagine you'd get similar performance. Not sure if youd need to tweak graphics settings due to the difference in cards but 1060 is really solid.

Heres a random youtube vid of someone running max settings ESO on 1060:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVBdW_9Y-LI

Davor

I have a GTX960M for my laptop with 16 gigs of ram. It works good. I get about 30-59 fps on high settings. Since you are getting a desktop and have a way better card than I do, you should have no problems at all. Since my resolution is capped at 1920X1080 I can't say how it will be above this.

So higher resolution can effect it as well. Mods too. But if playing at the settings I said you are great to go on high to higher settings.

Davor

Inarre wrote: »

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What did you use to tell you in the upper left corner the temp of your CPU and graphics card?

vamp_emily

Why not just replace/fix your graphics card in your laptop? ESO overworked my video card and I had to replace the fans twice. Didn't cost that much.

JacobCora

Thanks for all the answers. It's been a long time since the last time I was interested in computer components and I was a bit lost. I'll keep looking, but now I have a reference... so thanks!!

vamp_emily wrote: »

Why not just replace/fix your graphics card in your laptop? ESO overworked my video card and I had to replace the fans twice. Didn't cost that much.

That was my first thought, but I prefer to upgrade the whole thing (aka buy a new one). That way I could have a better sound system in the future and better screen (also in the future).

Inarre

Davor wrote: »

Inarre wrote: »

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What did you use to tell you in the upper left corner the temp of your CPU and graphics card?

Sorry maybe I was unclear, that's not my video, just something random off youtube. Generally it's a good source when looking at performance because many people will do test runs of graphics cards on games. You can find anything there.

Second comment on that video says the overlay is the CAM program

Davor

Thankyou @Inarre. I had no sound when watching it. Greatly appreciated it.

hakan

well my thread didnt get this much attention so i may ask here i guess

how well 1050 would work? any chance for high settings?

danno8

hakan wrote: »

well my thread didnt get this much attention so i may ask here i guess

how well 1050 would work? any chance for high settings?

The 1050 blows the minimum specs out of the water, and still beats the recommended GTX 750 by a large margin.

Honestly, the biggest improvements for ESO come from faster CPU's. My 1060 6GB at 1080p will never go past 50% usage and that is paired with a pretty old i5-4670K.

Kagukan

I have a 1060 paired with an 7th gen i-5. Setting are mostly max with a few turned down because I prefer the look. I have a steady 60 FPS most of the time. The only time I see very big steady dips in FPS is in large PVP battles.

qbit

I run a 1060 gtx 6 GB at the highest DSR resolution available and it scales down to 1080. All graphics options at max and texture resolution set higher than GUI allows by editing settings file. Never runs higher than 90% gpu utilization (Windows 10 shows gpu utilization and vram use in task manager - very handy).

The bottleneck is the CPU. There will never be a CPU powerful enough until game is done with proper threading and probably a newer graphics API. I have the same frustration with X-Plane.

Edit: gpu stuff in graphics settings are maxed. CPU stuff like view distance and reflections are not maxed.

JesQu

GTX 1060 is good enough, you could also use the 1050Ti, but remember to buy a card with more than 4GB of vram.

yurimodin

1060 will do the job but I would HIGHLY recommend a Gsync monitor to pair with it OR get a radeon card(RX570 or Rx580) and a freesync monitor.

To me this game is unplayable without adaptive sync since the framerate bounces around so much

vgabor

I'm running the game on a 13'' macbook pro laptop with an inbuilt Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536 MB, so probably any real graphic card will be juts fine

Xerge

1060 6gig ram
i7 lastest gen OC to 5.0ghz
16gig ram
Installed on m.2 chip

1060 is enough but the FPS bounce in this game is CRAZY and will drive anyone nuts. May look into a Gsync like others have suggested.

FinneganFroth

I just posted about my recent upgrade in another thread and I'm loving the difference. The graphics card you mentioned is more than enough for max everything in ESO. I'm running a GTX 980 and can run max everything with no trouble whatsoever. Also, 980 still performs great while being much cheaper than a lot of the new-ish cards.

Sailor_Palutena

I have 1070, playing in 4K, everything on High, except Shadows (Medium) and Antialiasing turned off (unecessary in 4K). I get 50-55fps in empty areas and 30-35fps in Dolmens or crowded areas.

JacobCora

Thanks again guys!

I have finally decided to purchase a computer with a GTX 1070 and a monitor with G-Sync (which I would have never asked for without your advice!).

Now I just have to wait a couple of weeks to play again!!