if I get a graphics card with 8 GB vram, would there be any benefits?

would you prefer amd or nvidia?

while AMD has reasonably better image quality, AA and AF.

But if you're buying a modern high end card I really don't think you need to worry how SE is going to run whether it be on Nvidia or AMD

it's all really fanboyism

AMD has reasonably better image quality, AA and AF

It also has 5x as many occurrences of problems with SE as Nvidia. Not to mention that SE doesn't support AA anyway. This guy isn't asking about what card to get for most programs, he's asking specifically for SE. The developer himself has said many times that Nvidia works better than AMD with SE. If you think you know better than him how his own program runs, then congratulations, go work on SE's successor.

thanks for trying to help me choose guys.

but, harbinger is right. I'm getting a new card specifically for SE. I've done my research and know very well about how amd/nvidia gpus perform on other games and stuff. I needed to know which SE prefers.

if that's nvidia, it's not going to be 970 as it has some vram issues if past 3.5 gb of 4 gb. at the same time 980 is much expensive. even that's too 4 GB,but not crippled like 970

while i like amd because they give much more compute power and 8 GIGS! of vram for much less price

but I'll go with what space engineer prefers. I would like a word from space engineer himself.

Your gif only goes to prove my point of Nvidia fanboyism here

It is a bit more frame ratey (Laggy) compared to 972. You have a good system don't get me wrong but even I have lagging issues and I have a high end rig.

I never thought I would be frustrated at Space Engine but here we are. @SpaceEngineer- I get random BSOD when I exit your program. At first I thought it was my overclock but I set everything back at default settings and it still happens. Any ideas?

Everyone complaining about "lag" or frame rate issues I think I might have found a quick fix. Turning the bloom down to the good old 9.72 setting of 5 seems to help. Looks like I'm going to have to make a new performance configuration for people.

Any fix for the buggy lava flows yet? Sticking with 9.72 for now...

This is rather odd because for my card which has 4gb of vram barely breaks a sweat running SE. I never see my GPU temps or usage go that high with my card. Anyway you can verify this?

I actually put more $$ into my GPU and got a R9 290

Very happy with what I built. Runs every game I throw at it max at 60+ FPS

There is a very strong Nvidia bias for the long time SE users but it's all really fanboyism.

But if you're buying a modern high end card I really don't think you need to worry how SE is going to run whether it be on Nvidia or AMD (Just for an idea my R9 290 never drops below 30 fps when rendering a planet and terrain and that's with an LOD setting of 0.000ect and tops out near 322fps)

That's why my system with an R9 290 destroys my mates system with a GTX 970 in Space Engine by a pretty wide margin.

I'm telling you mate. Go with AMD right now to get the most bang for your buck.

SE runs flawless on AMD hardware and you'll save a few bucks on the side. The price/performance ratio of the R9 290 is out of this world. For a sub $300 card it performs as well if not better in some cases then Nvidia's $350+ cards.

SE runs flawless on AMD hardware

No, driver bug, as usual for ATI.

Nvidia: Major lag spikes
To prevent major lags with Nvidia, go into Nvidia control panel, and in SpaceEngine's profile set Threaded optimization to off.

ATI/AMD: Crash on approaching to the black hole, neutron star or white dwarf, on using ship's hyperdrive, or when enabling the Oculus Rift mode or the Fish Eye mode
Open config/user.cfg and change this parameter value to false, so that it looks like this:

EnableMipmapsWarp false // use mipmapping for warp effects rendering

If crashes on enabling the Oculus Rift mode or the Fish Eye mode still remains, change these two parameters to false as well:

EnableMipmapsGUI false // use mipmapping for GUI FBO
EnableMipmapsFrame false // use mipmapping for scene FBO

And perhaps you're right I am an AMD/ATI fanboy only because out of the 7 GPU's I've owned in the last 10 years 5 AMD and 2 Nvidia that the AMD cards last and my two Nvidia cards died on me in less than a year. (a meager 6 months of life on my 9800gt)

Nvidia tended to fail quite early, and was more expensive, but had better perfromance overall and was usually compatible with everything.