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Is there even a game that uses more than 2GB vram on 1080p ?
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a few simulators out there I'm sure x-plane 10 springs to mind as one that could utilize more than 2GB ?
Not at the "stock" game I don't think. Only when you have additional add ons.
I'll try it out.
This serves as a great excuse to buy it
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Not at the "stock" game I don't think. Only when you have additional add ons.
I'll try it out.
This serves as a great excuse to buy it
X-Plane will take advantage of as many cores or distinct processors as you can afford. Having 16 cores split among 4 CPUs is not required by any means, but Version 10 would be able to use every one. No more than 4 GB of RAM is necessary, but the more VRAM you have, the better–X-Plane 10 can easily use 1.5 GB of VRAM at the maximum settings.
So yeah have fun.
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3930k and a 2.5gb 570
let us know how much vram x-plane 10 eats up
You're really looking for a couple of years of future proofing when you buy a high end card though. If I buy a card in October I'll be looking for 3gb+.
I disagree. I think you'll run into GPU limitations way before VRAM limitations so the future proofing could be an expensive mistake. Looking at previous game/GPU releases backs up this trend.
I'm not ruling it out - I'm just saying that the price premium for buying, for example a 680 with more VRAM is an expensive risk due to the mentioned point above.
I'm not ruling it out - I'm just saying that the price premium for buying, for example a 680 with more VRAM is an expensive risk due to the mentioned point above.
Run supersampling at its highest and Ambient occlusion at its highest through nvidia inspector(not the inferior control panel) and watch your 680 crawl.
Infact running supersampling on a game like metro or even crysis(YES CRYSIS) on 4x4,8SQ or 32x will bring a good 680 right down on the fps,more memory is better if you plan to use these features.
Ive said this before in this thread but some people seem to be ignoring it,2GB is not enough if you go down this route.
If you dont plan to use these features then i suggest you go buy a console and sell your pc.
Infact running supersampling on a game like metro or even crysis(YES CRYSIS) on 4x4,8SQ or 32x will bring a good 680 right down on the fps,more memory is better if you plan to use these features.
Ive said this before in this thread but some people seem to be ignoring it,2GB is not enough if you go down this route.
If you dont plan to use these features then i suggest you go buy a console and sell your pc.
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No evidence or links to these 'facts' of yours so I'll politely ignore.
But saying that if you don't max out in the nVidia control panel then you should buy a console.... You mean the mass majority of users? The mere in game settings users?
But saying that if you don't max out in the nVidia control panel then you should buy a console.... You mean the mass majority of users? The mere in game settings users?
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This will not be down to memory. Super sampling will kill performance due to the gpu's not being powerful enough to push decent fps while using it.
2gb VRAM is enough at 1080p! You WILL run into GPU limitations before VRAM is the ONLY thing stopping your FPS from going up. Pepole need to find where they can turn some things off yet still not notice the visual difference instead of putting everything to max to tell teh internetz!
No evidence or links to these 'facts' of yours so I'll politely ignore.
But saying that if you don't max out in the nVidia control panel then you should buy a console.... You mean the mass majority of users? The mere in game settings users?
You can create your own evidence by trying it right now for yourself,dont matter which card that you have.
So what your saying is its down to the clock speed then?
The point is, many don't care about benchmarks, it's in game performance were interested in. I don't care if I get 7m FPS, I'm not going to see 699,880 of them! Its pointless **** we an turn off without actually noticing a visual difference.
And it's not just downto clock speeds. Again, a 5450 at 1ghz core wont match a 7970 at 900mhz!
Im not talking about Benchmarks im talking about visual quality within your game,not once did i mention benchmarking,high levels of super sampling and other features make the game look much better but at a massive hit,im saying that the extra memory must help to some extent,its not a total waste as some of you are implying as if its totally useless regarding visual quality using the above methods in previous posts.
Hence the reason why i said get a console as console games are known to have jaggies.
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You said run it through the Nvidia inspector. That's pretty much a benchmark is it not?
Memory IS useless unless you have the GPU power to support it. This again comes down to 79701.5gb>5450 20TB!!
I can run BF3 fine with 4x AA and 32x MSAA. I for see any jagged lines
You said run it through the Nvidia inspector. That's pretty much a benchmark is it not?
Memory IS useless unless you have the GPU power to support it. This again comes down to 79701.5gb>5450 20TB!!
I can run BF3 fine with 4x AA and 32x MSAA. I for see any jagged lines
Nvidia inspector profile in BF3 is broken i think in regards to AA.Im not sure as i dont have bf3 installed.
Try this crysis profile and instead of using 4xMS here go higher,same with transparency supersampling and watch your gpu crawl.
http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=34463
It makes my 580s in sli crawl so i know how demanding it is when its setup right.
Do you know how to use nvidia inspector?
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