Battlefield 3 Video Memory Usage

Andi-C · 14 Sep 2012 at 14:04

First post !

1440p - GTX 670 use's 1.7GB. MSI After burner used...

Nuclear Fusion · 14 Sep 2012 at 14:22

Yeah, I check Vram usage with afterburner.

LtMatt · 14 Sep 2012 at 15:07

Almost up to 2Gb.

Bandar desert is a beautiful map. :cool:

Rusty0611 · 14 Sep 2012 at 15:36

I'd probably see usage around 1700MB on the same scenario - if more VRAM is available more is cached.

Monkeyspaz5000 · 14 Sep 2012 at 15:45

No need to disable Aero, or not that I've found.

As for usage, use GPU-Z or similar.

liamcrane · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:17

LtMatt said:
Almost up to 2Gb.

Bandar desert is a beautiful map.

What seting are you using for you vram to be so high Matt? Have you overclocked your GPU ram?

LtMatt · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:20

liamcrane said:
What seting are you using for you vram to be so high Matt? Have you overclocked your GPU ram?

Full ultra with 4xaa @1080p.

I have to say i think the new Armoured Kill DLC maps require more VRAM because they are massive. I don't recall seeing this high usage on the stock maps, maybe 1.7-1.8.

Tonester0011 · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:27

LtMatt said:
Full ultra with 4xaa @1080p.

I have to say i think the new Armoured Kill DLC maps require more VRAM because they are massive. I don't recall seeing this high usage on the stock maps, maybe 1.7-1.8.

Or it could be down to you having the available VRAM, the maps being bigger might be why they are just utliising this space...

Not a set in stone requirement...that, my friend, is conjecture.

Anyway, according to MSI i use 2.3GB....pointless thread.

Gregster · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:27

LtMatt said:
Full ultra with 4xaa @1080p.

I have to say i think the new Armoured Kill DLC maps require more VRAM because they are massive. I don't recall seeing this high usage on the stock maps, maybe 1.7-1.8.

What is your TS server name matt?

LtMatt · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:32

gregster said:
What is your TS server name matt?

You need to visit our website and join our forum to get our team speak info and password, we don't post the details outside of there.

Tonester0011 said:
Or it could be down to you having the available VRAM, the maps being bigger might be why they are just utliising this space...

Not a set in stone requirement...that, my friend, is conjecture.

Anyway, according to MSI i use 2.3GB....pointless thread.

Isn't that what i just said?

If you don't like the thread, you know what you can do, stay out.

Pointless reply.

Kaapstad · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:43

This mine running BF3 with everything maxed out @2560x1600

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/membf3.jpg/

LtMatt · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:48

Very nice Kraap,

How do you find the fps with 4xaa?

How long were you playing for when you recorded these and which map and player size was it if you don't mind me asking?

Kaapstad · 14 Sep 2012 at 17:56

How long were you playing for when you recorded these and which map and player size was it if you don't mind me asking?

Single player
This is near the beginning of the game with the sniper on the roof.
Im not very good at FPS games so I don't tend to last that long.

Kaapstad · 14 Sep 2012 at 18:07

How do you find the fps with 4xaa?

You mean MSAAx4

When I last ran FRAPS with every thing maxed out including the above it was about 110fps sometines higher. This was at the beginning of the game where you get out the APC onto the street and also a little later in the carpark.

Is there a way to use FRAPS to record min/avg/max ?

As I said above Im not very good at FPS but with this game I will be getting a lot of practice when I get the time.

Gregster · 14 Sep 2012 at 18:10

LtMatt said:
You need to visit our website and join our forum to get our team speak info and password, we don't post the details outside of there.

Fair play. I just had half hour spare and thought I would come have a chat and slate AMD

I will sign up though.

LtMatt · 14 Sep 2012 at 18:37

Kaapstad said:
Single player
This is near the beginning of the game with the sniper on the roof.
Im not very good at FPS games so I don't tend to last that long.

Single player? Blimey, don't think ive ever seen it that high on single player.

Kaapstad said:
You mean MSAAx4

When I last ran FRAPS with every thing maxed out including the above it was about 110fps sometines higher. This was at the beginning of the game where you get out the APC onto the street and also a little later in the carpark.

Is there a way to use FRAPS to record min/avg/max ?

As I said above Im not very good at FPS but with this game I will be getting a lot of practice when I get the time.

Not sure about fraps, i use afterburner to do my screenshots and videos, i think that has the feature you require.

How much vram in multi player? Do you have the Armoured Kill maps?

gregster said:
Fair play. I just had half hour spare and thought I would come have a chat and slate AMD

I will sign up though.

Furry muff.

I hope its not just to start a vram debate, i've had just about enough of people going on about that in this thread.

I just like to compare (vram usage that is

)

Gregster · 14 Sep 2012 at 19:43

Nah I wasn't but I was going to stir up some AMD owners

Kaapstad · 14 Sep 2012 at 21:04

How much vram in multi player? Do you have the Armoured Kill maps?

I have not played multi player Im still learning to play the game.

thefogo · 14 Sep 2012 at 21:45

Peaked at 1.7GB VRAM on Alborz Mountains 64 players on my 7950.
With everything maxed except motion blur - I always turn it off

thefogo · 14 Sep 2012 at 22:48

I have a problem guys

Apparently my 7950 ran out of VRAM and my PC completely locked up - this happened a few times on my 6990 too

I checked MSI Afterburner and the peak VRam usage is 1.7GB - what's going on? :confused: