RTW2 vram shocker

LtMatt · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:42

whyscotty said:
You would not let it lie

I've got a lot at stake with Battlefield 4, Ultra x4 AA, 1600p and 2gb supposedly being plenty. Lives will be lost Scotty. If im wrong, expect a three month self imposed vacation.

FoxEye said:
So how much VRAM is the 'sweet spot' for 1080p then?

/grabs popcorn

2gb is a great amount... for 1080p.

Orangey · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:46

LtMatt said:
2gb is a great amount... for me to poop on!

LtMatt · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:47

MOOGLEYS · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:52

Seems to play fine for me @ 1080p on a 2GB 670..

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:21

2gb vram fearmongering has got to stop now. The sad thing is it wont

LtMatt · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:22

RetrogamerX said:
2gb vram fearmongering has got to stop now.

2gb will live forever. :cool:

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:25

LtMatt said:
2gb will live forever.

Damn right it will

LtMatt · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:27

RetrogamerX said:
Damn right it will

Apparently the titan ultra will ship with 2gb to help keep costs down. :eek:

Diagro · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:28

Orangey said:
Creative Assembly suck at programming, most likely the game is managing the VRAM in a hamfisted way.

Go fix it then my programming genius

MOOGLEYS · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:43

I just had a drop from 50fps down to 5fps for a few seconds. My GPU usage dropped right down then back up a again.

I think I either ran out of Vram or GPU grunt for a moment.

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:44

LtMatt said:
Apparently the titan ultra will ship with 2gb to help keep costs down.

I'll buy one

teppic · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:54

MOOGLEYS said:
I just had a drop from 50fps down to 5fps for a few seconds. My GPU usage dropped right down then back up a again.

I think I either ran out of Vram or GPU grunt for a moment.

Sounds like it could be a CPU issue - though if it's not able to cache enough in VRAM it may have to go to disk, which could cause a big stutter.

Tonester0011 · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:05

MOOGLEYS said:
I just had a drop from 50fps down to 5fps for a few seconds. My GPU usage dropped right down then back up a again.

I think I either ran out of Vram or GPU grunt for a moment.

i had a similar thing, and i'm currently using a 4Gb 670, so probably something else and not VRAM related.

Ian Evey · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:52

LtMatt said:
Apparently the titan ultra will ship with 2gb to help keep costs down.

Unlike the rumored 9xxx amd's, with the 256bit bus. Cannot wait to have yet another discussion about bus speed if true.

LtMatt · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:06

Ian Evey said:
Unlike the rumored 9xxx amd's, with the 256bit bus. Cannot wait to have yet another discussion about bus speed if true.

As with a 670 oc being faster than a 7950 oc, keep dreaming Ian.

Marine-RX179 · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:35

MOOGLEYS said:
I just had a drop from 50fps down to 5fps for a few seconds. My GPU usage dropped right down then back up a again.

That does sound exactly like the syndrome of vram ran out. I remember having this issue back then on Crysis 1 with my 1GB vram usage reached max.

Tonester0011 · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:38

Marine-RX179 said:
That does sound exactly like the syndrome of vram ran out. I remember having this issue back then on Crysis 1 with my 1GB vram usage reached max.

Tonester0011 said:
i had a similar thing, and i'm currently using a 4Gb 670, so probably something else and not VRAM related.

thefogo · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:25

Playing online I was running out of VRAM at max settings. Though the game runs bad for me even on Medium.
On Ultra I was hitting around 10-15fps at some points.

tommybhoy · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:27

http://gamegpu.ru/rts-/-strategii/total-war-rome-ii-test-gpu.html

It's early days yet, patches and optimisations will be needed purely based on previous TW games, never played them as RTS hold zero excitement for me.

TW admin post:

Low Resolution Texture when running on Extreme

Hello everyone,

As this issue is growing on it, seems most of the cases fall under this category and so should try the following solutions:
If you are experiencing low resolution textures when running on extreme, its most likely that you don’t have enough video memory.

You can force an override by ticking the unlimited video memory tick box in the advanced graphics settings however this may impact performance.

Another thing, the vegetation alpha is an option that should be set to off for all but the most powerful rigs.

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthre...e-when-running-on-Extreme?p=646496#post646496

Shadow effects are cpu rendered afaik, turn them to low to help take stress off the cpu.

LtMatt said:
As with a 670 oc being faster than a 7950 oc, keep dreaming Ian.

MOOGLEYS · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:30

Marine-RX179 said:
That does sound exactly like the syndrome of vram ran out. I remember having this issue back then on Crysis 1 with my 1GB vram usage reached max.

It only did it that once. Have now played a good 3 hours solid and it has not done it since. A single 670 at 1080p runs this game fine with all the settings turned up. It drops into the 30's but tbh for this type of game it makes little difference.