Black Ops III: 12 GB RAM and GTX 980 Ti Not Enough

LoadsaMoney · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:15

Howling said:
You have to consider that it uses 4.5GB when there's (presumably) 6GB/8GB available. It doesn't mean it NEEDS 4.5GB, My Fury X's run it fine. Well, I say fine - it runs just as well on Extra as it does High and Medium - it runs fairly badly whatever settings tbh, just doesn't feel smooth :/

You'll have to downgrade

Dave2150 · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:18

Boomstick777 said:
R9 390 8GB ftw

Absolutely.

Remember those users who were posting the other week that 8GB will 'never' be used as it will lower performance too much? Guess what, you were wrong.

For example:

Gregster said:
In essence, assuming Crossfire is working well and whoever is going to run 4 cards and very high resolutions, I would tell them to grab the 390s every day but for one GPU, that extra VRAM is pointless.

970 and 980 owners with 4GB will struggle to run this game with the best textures enabled.

Freddie1980 · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:25

Gregster said:
Just had a quick play on the SP and quite impressed with how it runs. Only had an hour but I am liking it.

An hour, so you completed it then?

LoadsaMoney · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:28

Freddie1980 said:
An hour, so you completed it then?

Twice

Born_2_Kill_83 · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:42

Couldn't care less about this gash game but yay for using lots of Vram. *Hugs TX*

Gregster · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:45

Dave2150 said:
970 and 980 owners with 4GB will struggle to run this game with the best textures enabled.

They sure will from what you are saying and those people who bought a Fury or Fury X should have saved money and bought the 390 8GB

But in essence, nobody kicked up a fuss when COD:AW was the exact same and I can't see anybody kicking up a fuss with this...Unless they have an agenda.

Freddie1980 said:
An hour, so you completed it then?

LoadsaMoney said:
Twice

Not that short is it? lol

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:45

Dave2150 said:
Absolutely.

Remember those users who were posting the other week that 8GB will 'never' be used as it will lower performance too much? Guess what, you were wrong.

For example:

970 and 980 owners with 4GB will struggle to run this game with the best textures enabled.

Looks at crossfire 390's in my case and thinks to myself what a good move from 7950 crossfire. Timed just right and a steal for the price and performance.

V F · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:54

TonyTurbo78 said:
Looks at crossfire 390's in my case and thinks to myself what a good move from 7950 crossfire. Timed just right and a steal for the price and performance.

You milked it good then?

Orangey · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:00

Thinking of selling my TX if cowadoody is the only series to use the 12GB.

Also when did Treyarch become the "good" dev? After IW imploded?

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:14

V F said:
You milked it good then?

Well and truly, full fat the lot lol

Dave2150 · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:18

Gregster said:
They sure will from what you are saying and those people who bought a Fury or Fury X should have saved money and bought the 390 8GB

But in essence, nobody kicked up a fuss when COD:AW was the exact same and I can't see anybody kicking up a fuss with this...Unless they have an agenda.

Not that short is it? lol

That's the reason I didn't buy a Fury X - too little VRAM IMO. I'll jump on the HBM2 bandwagon when it rolls out next year, until then my 390X will tie me over.

Simon Belmont · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:59

I hear there's memory leak. My Titan X goes to 10 vram use. That's nuts!!

MooMoo444 · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:08

Meanwhile, those of us at 4gb..

Seanspeed · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:10

Howling said:
You have to consider that it uses 4.5GB when there's (presumably) 6GB/8GB available. It doesn't mean it NEEDS 4.5GB, My Fury X's run it fine. Well, I say fine - it runs just as well on Extra as it does High and Medium - it runs fairly badly whatever settings tbh, just doesn't feel smooth :/

Well yes, it does need 4.5GB. I literally cannot run Extra textures on my GTX970 without massive stuttering. I turn it down to High and everything is entirely smooth(along with some other effects turned down or off).

Simon Belmont said:
I hear there's memory leak. My Titan X goes to 10 vram use. That's nuts!!

Dont think it's a leak, it's just one of those games that'll use what's there. Not uncommon.

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Couldn't care less about this gash game but yay for using lots of Vram. *Hugs TX*

I wouldn't be bothered by it if there was a worthwhile payoff. But the textures dont seem to justify their cost at all.

I think the larger video memory pools on consoles are leading some devs to take shortcuts with memory optimization. Battlefront has better looking textures at less cost.

Gregster · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:11

Dave2150 said:
That's the reason I didn't buy a Fury X - too little VRAM IMO. I'll jump on the HBM2 bandwagon when it rolls out next year, until then my 390X will tie me over.

Just the one 390X?

thebennyboy · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:18

The quality of the textures really doesn't justify all the VRAM usage...

Another crappy PC port, move along.

TwsT · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:29

Nelly said:
Haha It will be all those peasant, but uber pro gamers, using 19" screens, so their eyes are not all over the place on a huge screen, wiping the floor with kill ratio's on FPS games against the casual gamers with 27"+ screens lol.

more likely small laptop users

whyscotty · 6 Nov 2015 at 16:37

Is this game for real?

13GB ram breached @1440

LoadsaMoney · 6 Nov 2015 at 16:39

For the best experience, its recommended that AMD Radeon Fury owners, downgrade to the AMD Radeon 390 series.

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Nov 2015 at 16:42