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best for running at 2560*1600

chaosophy said:
I know you are talking from, your, experience and I'll admit I'm also waiting for the 1GB cards and the X2 before taking the plunge this time around, but have you read any of the reviews linked in the other thread?
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Yep i've read most of them. They do not show these problems as i mentioned, thats why i done it.

Some of them are just really strange. Getting 100FPS @ 2560x1600 with 4xAA on a 512MB card? ...err dont think so.

Take Oblivion for example, that uses almost 700MB @ 2560x1600 + 4x AA.

I'm planning to update my thread sometime soon with the amount of VRAM new games use. But i'm having to install XP for this, as there is no software for Vista that accurately monitors the VRAM usage while gaming, because of how Vista handles VRAM differently.
 
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KaneStatton said:
I have read your 'mini review' twice i was just going by the benchmarks in the reviews sorry to get you annoyed :rolleyes:
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Thats because you have not got a 1GB review to compare them with.
The benchmarks look ok for 2560x1600 on games that are getting on a bit & games that are not really pushing the texture sizes 30-60fps may look good to you but then if the 1GB version pushes 60-120fps then you would think different.
 
MR.B said:
Yep i've read most of them. They do not show these problems as i mentioned, thats why i done it.

Some of them are just really strange. Getting 100FPS @ 2560x1600 with 4xAA on a 512MB card? ...err dont think so.

Take Oblivion for example, that uses almost 700MB @ 2560x1600 + 4x AA.

I'm planning to update my thread sometime soon with the amount of VRAM new games use. But i'm having to install XP for this, as there is no software for Vista that accurately monitors the VRAM usage while gaming, because of how Vista handles VRAM differently.
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ok, guess they must all be wrong then :confused:
Is that out of the box+official patch Oblivion?
 
chaosophy said:
ok, guess they must all be wrong then :confused:
Is that out of the box+official patch Oblivion?
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Yep, out of the box.

And not all review sites do this, some have mentioned they ran into the 512MB limit at high res. But they rarely go into it any further.

It's just like with the 256MB cards and 128MB before it, games are now getting to the point where 512MB ins't enough for high res gaming because of the bigger textures now used in them. It will soon start effecting 1920x1200 res (well it already does with enough AA and AF on a handful of games).
 
Even with Qarl's Texture Pack 3 (but no AA) Oblivion only used about 630MB VRAM for me at 1680x1050. This is the last I'm going to say on the subject since certain people obviously seem to know better based on second-hand information, and I can't be bothered arguing. And yes I know 2560x1600 is bigger.
 
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Ulfhedjinn said:
Even with Qarl's Texture Pack 3 (but no AA) Oblivion only used about 630MB VRAM for me at 1680x1050. This is the last I'm going to say on the subject since certain people obviously seem to know better based on second-hand information, and I can't be bothered arguing. And yes I know 2560x1600 is bigger.
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Qarl's Texture Pack 3 is really great, makes Oblivion look so much better. I bet at 2560x1600 it will get close to 1GB VRAM usage with a little AA... think i'll test that when i have XP installed so i can monitor VRAM usage...
 
4870 in CF is 1gb of mem in total, not 512 ;).
And it's more than enough for even 2560x1600 , it destroys GT280 terrible in anything.
End of story.

Still ofcourse the 1gb version will be a monster and will do better ofcourse but I dont think 4870 x2CF will have problems with anything... even the 512mb.
 
Says who ?.

Crossfire and SLI do not give you 2x Ram.

If the Cards are 512MB you get only 512MB not 1GB.

The rumours above is the X2 might get around this but thats not 2x Cards in Crossfire.

The only way your going to get 1GB in Crossfire (going by current info) is using 1GB Cards.

Also what's this "end of story lark" ?, 2 cards beating 1 card WOW, stand back in amazement.

I think you best go and do some homework before posting more info on topic TBH. ;)
 
Well based upon this information i have cancelled my order for a 4870 512MB and will wait for the 1GB as i game at 4160x1024=4.3Mpixels and 2560x1600=4.1Mpixels

I got caught out when i had 7800GS with 256MB and Stalker came out (running 1600x1000)and suffered some unexplained slow down at certain parts eventually i found out via viewing memory usage in rivatuner that i'd run out of Video RAM and so upped the AGP aperture to 256 so the video card could "swap" to system memory and this resolved the problem.

i vowed then i'd never be caught out again as i opted for the 256 model rather than 512 model with the 7800GS.

id rather have too much memory and it not all be used now/ in 6 months than have too little in 6 months.

release date information on the 1GB cant come quick enough.
 
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the_jetsetwilly said:
Well based upon this information i have cancelled my order for a 4870 512MB and will wait for the 1GB as i game at 4160x1024=4.3Mpixels and 2560x1600=4.1Mpixels

I got caught out when i had 7800GS with 256MB and Stalker came out (running 1600x1000)and suffered some unexplained slow down at certain parts eventually i found out via viewing memory usage in rivatuner that i'd run out of Video RAM and so upped the AGP aperture to 256 so the video card could "swap" to system memory and this resolved the problem.

i vowed then i'd never be caught out again as i opted for the 256 model rather than 512 model with the 7800GS.

id rather have too much memory and it not all be used now/ in 6 months than have too little in 6 months.

release date information on the 1GB cant come quick enough.
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