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Been playing around with Skyrim mods and all was good until I installed the Texture Pack Combiner, some stuttering started.
Low and behold I fired up Afterburner and was shocked to see my Vram usage sitting @3995Mb@1080p which of course is 1997Mb each gpu.
The cards in question are 6950>70 CrossFire running 950MHz/1300MHz, these are plenty fast at anything I have thrown at them@1080p, including Skyrim until the texture pack combiner was installed.
I swapped in a 7970 Wind Force and fired up Skyrim again, no stuttering but the vram is now hitting ~2750Mb.
As imo, the 7970 I used is slower than my CrossFire setup@1080p, it's definitely not gpu grunt at fault, they ran out of Vram!
At this point I should add that this is all being done in 3D via Tridef.
Mods used along with the Texture Combiner(and required files) are:
In game settings:
Not advocating/advising anyone rips out gpu's to replace a 2Gb gpu at all for 1080p gaming, the aim of the post is to be informative and let anyone know that a modded Skyrim can breach 2Gb vram@1080p.
Texture Combiner available here:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/20801/#content
