Encouraging feedback from a PAX East attendee who posted in the Reddit sub.
QuoteOverall impression:
Very impressed. The game is beautiful.
I had a ton of fun switching out into 3rd person mode between waves, hitting the afterburner and going into a slow roll. The graphics are incredible for being in such an early state. Flight felt good, but I'd like to try it with a proper HOTAS (The booth has a Logitech Xtreme 3D Pro joystick), with proper roll and yaw layout. UI is still missing a few things, but what is there so far looks really good.
Performance was good, but the demo machine was running dual GTX 690s, so yea...
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/22wmbz/i_spent_four_hours_at_the_pax_booth_today/
In other news, SC was on the Logitech stand, so should we read anything into it? :P
Dual 690s?
The 690 is a dual gpu card, but taking it as said it implies the demo machine ran a quad gpu setup? Is this possible? Heck, is this even affordable?
Yes, it's possible, let's face it there are many quad-GTX690 systems (8 GPUs) out there. But if you were putting up a demo of a game to your expectant audience would you choose to show it to your investors on a Radeon 9600 or something slightly beefier?
At the end of the day we're still pre-alpha and there is a ton of work to be done on the game to make it run more smoothly - and they are targeting system capabilities that will be 'normal' in 2015, so we should expect that anything that runs it well today will be top end hardware. By the time they have finished tuning it and getting driver work done I'm sure the hardware requirements will seem quite reasonable.