How much difference does having a 2GB RAM instead of 3GB in graphics?

[Owen Wilson's Nose]

So basically my specs are fine for minimum but my graphics card is 1GB short. How much difference does it make in me being able to play or not this game?

[Crouching Cracker - Hidden Weabo]

probably all you'd need to do is turn down textures by one setting at the most, worst case that plus turning down shadows a setting which would help maintain fps anyways in more demanding spots. in a worst case probably that plus going 720p to free some extra vram though probably not much would be freed at the lower resos.

my guess is much of the vram is used for the way the game loads assets to keep gameplay smooth (stutter free on a ps4pro with a 5400rpm HDD), so if you install to an ssd (sata is fine) it shouldn't be much of aproblem but you will have momentary stutters here and there mostly traveling into and out of larger towns as textures are flipped and flopped in and out it shouldn't be anything truly game breaking though.

if you played witcher 3 and remember going in those big towns, the hitches at first entering and sometimes leaving, think along those terms. still playable. entering or getting into the spaces outside of some of the cauldrons or whatever they were called might also behave the same way for you, just a guess. but you should be able to play it, just probably not with higher texture settings. I had the same situation with memory on the card I was using when dying light first came out, and turning down textures worked around it outside some occasional hitches for the most part.

[Mephisto-Luzifer]

Buy it through steam, so you can refund it within the refund time if the game wont work as you wish. Honestly, i dont think it will work well with 1GB VRAM - if it even works.
https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/?l=english

[Crouching Cracker - Hidden Weabo]

Originally posted by Mephisto-Luzifer:

Buy it through steam, so you can refund it within the refund time if the game wont work as you wish. Honestly, i dont think it will work well with 1GB VRAM - if it even works.
https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/?l=english

he has 2gb vram which should be enough if he turns down textures and reso a bit, but that's good advice on keeping up on the refund policy. It's safe to put around an hour and 45 to an hour and 50 minutes into it before cutting it off if it's choppy for you OP... shift+tab with steam overlay enabled to see how long the current session is on time invested into the game. refunds are automatic until you've played for 2 hours accumulative, but only possible if you bought through steam and not another retailer like gmg.

[Hyperion]

2GB VRAM will not cut it for a modern triple A game. Minimum requirements are usually target 720p 30 FPS @ Low settings.

When your dedicated VRAM fills up (and it will fill up), your PC will start to use your system RAM which is much slower, causing stuttering and general performance instability.

[Super Bambaspis]

Originally posted by Owen Wilson's Nose:

So basically my specs are fine for minimum but my graphics card is 1GB short. How much difference does it make in me being able to play or not this game?

Curious what makes you think your GPU is up to the ask other than the VRAM? What GPU do you actually have, it might be under spec all-around.

Also some games will run OK under when you are under VRAM, and some just don't. No one knows how this will run yet, but set your hopes on the low side. An open world game is less likely to be lenient with VRAM, both in capacity and bandwidth.

[CCore]

Basically, what VRAM does, is it stores all of the graphics information that needs to be loaded (Textures tend to take up a big portion of this. The more VRAM you have, the higher resolution textures, and graphics your GPU can load. Though, VRAM isn't always the most important thing, as your card could have loads of it, but be really slow at loading it). You might be able to play if you turn your settings down (Low settings is definitely gonna be where that video card sits).

I think you might have some trouble running this game (Though, we don't really know yet since no-one knows what performance is like), but I would say, with a GPU like that, and an open world game, it's likely not gonna run too well.

I would say, whatever you do, don't buy the game until you know what the performance is like. There's nothing worse than buying a game, and then finding out you can't even run it properly. I used to have an absolutely awful PC, and I always had to worry about whether I could run games or not, but generally, I found that setting my expectations low was a good way to not get disappointed. Luckily, I don't have that problem anymore.