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Titanfall uses VRAM as a cache as been said many times before
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Vram shocker@1080p-Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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I'm guessing that's what the problem with SOM is seeing as it was mainly developed for consoles and lazily ported over hence the huge vram requirement.
There isn't much excuse these days for (actually) using half a dozen GB of texture data - unless its REALLY high res - between various texture compression systems available and texture streaming most games even on ultra shouldn't be using more than 1-2GB for texture data. (Unless your actually detailing stuff with full resolution textures with 2x or more the detail of anything out at the moment).
Texture quality doesn't have to be high to use much ram if the game is loading a LOT of rubbish textures into it, and like others said just because it's using 3.7GB doesn't mean it needs 3.7GB.
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I mean here's a theory, say Nvidia release an 8gb 970, i bet it will come with around a £100 premium. The 970 is begging out to be used via sli, and adding that extra price for additional vram really isn't worth it. I would say, get 2 970x4gb and enjoy the performance. I doubt games are going to be massively impacted by that setup for some time.
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I bet someone will run the game maxed on a 2GB 680 on release and still get good performance
I bet someone will run the game maxed on a 2GB 680 on release and still get good performance
bingo, shhhh though, 6 and 8gb cards need to sell
Don't worry, each time Nvidia catch up with high end mainstream vram allocation it becomes more acceptable to the masses.
I think that was more to do with 670 a 680 which would not run that well on maxed out settings on newer games before it ran out if vram.
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Having some variation is good though - gives more depth to the scene
Yeah, thats my excuse
Done it and on my old ATI 9500np and GT9600. Nothing too difficult if careful.
The point is to know what dimms to buy.
Multiple cards/longevity were always part of the discussions-obviously ignored.
4Gb 670 enabling higher textures than a much faster 780ti-ouch if true.
Multiple cards/longevity were always part of the discussions-obviously ignored.
4Gb 670 enabling higher textures than a much faster 780ti-ouch if true.
It won't be true @1080.
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im confused? i'd call this future proofing the game, if its hefty to run on todays hardware then tomorrow it'll still look current enough with higher settings on tomorrows hardware.
tbh, i do kind of wish peeps would do this sort of thing, take skyrim for example would it not be bliss to have had some real high res textures [ie better than the already released hd texturepack] withoug having to have a ton of texture mods.
thats just an example, its no excuse for the game having poor performance at launch just because its "graphically intensive" [i can name a couple of old games that dont run well on todays hardware and dont look that good doing it either]
tbh, i do kind of wish peeps would do this sort of thing, take skyrim for example would it not be bliss to have had some real high res textures [ie better than the already released hd texturepack] withoug having to have a ton of texture mods.
thats just an example, its no excuse for the game having poor performance at launch just because its "graphically intensive" [i can name a couple of old games that dont run well on todays hardware and dont look that good doing it either]
