Patch Notes and PC System Specs

My graphics card is 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, which I think is this. other specs [edit: forgot to say the drivers are now updated tho lol]
Say I want to run the game smoother on medium, or on settings higher than medium (I'm playing on medium at the moment and it's okay, not great, I'll survive but in an ideal world it would be prettier! hence the query), then I require a new, better graphics card, right? [never upgraded a PC before]

I've been googling around and doing some reading, but my knowledge is woefully lacking. would something like this work? Make the game smoother and prettier? would you warn me away from that one and have a better recommendation in mind? how do I know it will work for my PC?

side note: saw people saying their performance took a hit on the first planet after you get the Tempest, I tried it and figured I'd add to my report given my weird graphics card and peoples' request, it's fine on the first planet too.

Alright, thank you.

Don't forget to make sure that the card will fit into your case, also. (I could stuff a 4 yr old into my case but I still double checked, because you just never know.)

I'm honestly impressed by how well my 560ti handled the game.  I was expecting it to catch on fire or something, but it wasn't too bad overall, considering how old it is.  But an upgrade was needed. 

50%? Sure, if you're overclocking. A 15% boost to the power limit provided a steady max boost clock on my RX 470. 

Hi, after playing now a good part of the SP, I can say so far I play it on Ultra.

I5 6400
Sapphire Nitro+ Rx470 8GB
16 GB Ram

I play on 1040p

Just have turned off V-Sync, Shadows on low, Film Grain Off. Everything else is on Ultra or High, if there is no Ultra option for me.
Only complained is that the game shut down during the MP. Customization didn't start correctly. And now the loading didn't continue after things (I will not spoil). But I'm not sure, if maybe I have to download the rest of the game...

There was a little bit of weirdness during the cutscenes, like little stuttering, but nothing too annoying at the beginning of the game. The other cutscenes were fine so far. I will now play a little bit on High only, to see if there might be a problem... but FPS wise the game runs great on my PC!

[little Edit:] Before I started playing today, I installed the new AMD driver 17.3.2, since they are already working on optimazation for Mass Effect Andromeda, also if you have a RX480 you should get more power.

For anyone who has a DDR3 RAM setup - it works great. I have an I7, 16gigs of ram and a 1070gtx - game flows flawlessly at 1080p settings maxed. There's no need to go to a DDR4 setup unless you just really want to.

I was just little under on my system (the recommended requirements) and it set me to low in all my settings which still looked great. But on Eros I had some insane lag spikes. My game felt like it was pausing and freezing. Otherwise, I never noticed it running hot or the fan kicking up at all. But those times where it probably slowed due to render issues (in a desert no less) made me really glad I went with PS4 for this.

Usually have to hit the Windows key in conjunction with your printscreen key.

i7-4770k @ 4.0ghz
MSI R9-290X Lightning (17.3.2 drivers)

1080p on high is smooth as can be. Looks very good. 1440p on Ultra still smooth and looks even better. Been very happy with Frostbite engine in games on my pc.

I can run as high as 3200x1800 on current monitor and going to see how it does. Time to melt down this vid card

Edit - 3200x1800 looks amazing, playable but not as smooth as I would like. Will stick to 1080p in Ultra or 1440p Ultra.

If you're on Windows 10 you can bring up the game bar with Windows key + G, from there you can set up hotkeys for various things, like taking screenshots. Others have suggested Windows key + print screen, the pictures get saved to a folder somewhere but for me they all turn out black.

I've also been looking for the in-game screenshot feature but it doesn't seem to exist (yet?).