Do you actually need 6GB of VRAM to run the HD content pack?

[The Meddling Monke]

I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me. I have been checking online and on the steam forums and some people say you do and others say you don't.

[Mr_Bump]

Originally posted by this is war 88:

let's hope nvidia are smart and bring 6gb's to the 960, 970, 980 and so on. If they don't I ain't moving from my 780 6gb!

Problem is, unless you're running at 4K (which, no offence, I highly doubt with a 780), there is almost no noticible difference between High and Ultra, unless you really look for it. I tried them out on my 4Gb card (R9 290 Tri-X OC) to have a look see and at 1080p I could *maybe* see some slightly better resolution on ground textures when staring at the floor, but there wasn't much in it! I'm sure at 4K the Ultra textures will shine, but I doubt there's very many PCs out there that can manage that right now!!

[BING CHILLING]

Im running high on 1gb of vram lol, so I assume you could run ultra without the 6gb

[Rafael Freeman]

I can run the high-res pack on a GTX 780 Ti with 3 GB. But there are occasional slowdowns.

It’s of course possible that at some point in the game those become really annoying, but at least for now I can say that 6 GB of vram isn’t absolutely necessary. Still, the sensible thing is perhaps to use the high setting, which looks decent enough.

[xWar_88x]

Originally posted by Mr_Bump:

Originally posted by this is war 88:

let's hope nvidia are smart and bring 6gb's to the 960, 970, 980 and so on. If they don't I ain't moving from my 780 6gb!

Problem is, unless you're running at 4K (which, no offence, I highly doubt with a 780), there is almost no noticible difference between High and Ultra, unless you really look for it. I tried them out on my 4Gb card (R9 290 Tri-X OC) to have a look see and at 1080p I could *maybe* see some slightly better resolution on ground textures when staring at the floor, but there wasn't much in it! I'm sure at 4K the Ultra textures will shine, but I doubt there's very many PCs out there that can manage that right now!!

well the evil within, ryse require 4gbs. Evil within only needs a 670 ryse needs a 660 ti to max it out these games aren't really gpu demanding just vram hungry. it's just wise to get 4gb+ cards. within a year games have went from 2gb/2.5gb up to 4gb/6gb it's so unpredictable with next gen. the ps4 has 8gb of vram so devs are really going to push it with these games. It's up to you's what you's do but imo more vram the better.

[Gitrekt Gudson]

No you don't need 6gb. I am on a GTX770, it's a 2gb card... I am running Ultra just fine at 1920x1080. Every once in a while it will skip a frame or something, but just for a second and not enough to impact gameplay. I think just turning off the motion blur would even be enough to alleviate that small performance drop I see, and I generally hate motion blur anyways.

i7 4770k @ 4.2ghz
16gb DDR3 2400
MSI Lightning GTX770 2gb

[That Laggy Guy]

I'm running a 290 which only has 4GB and Ultra's running just fine for me (yes, I manually installed the texture pack).

[Ha No]

Originally posted by Mr_Bump:

Originally posted by Nana:

HD tex runs fine on my 780ti @1440p, impact about same as none HD textures if you loosen some settings :)
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Once again, for the cheap seats: You don't have the Ultra textures. If you did, you wouldn't be saying they run fine at 1440p with a 780ti - 3Gb of GDDR5 isn't enough. Actually download the Ultra textures and then try!

That is what I did lol I downloaded the 3.7GB HD dlc and it works fine...
I even explained the settings I dropped to compensate. It may drop to 53-55fps if I turn 180 fast while playing:>
OP asked if it is possible yes but may require to lighten the settings alittle depended on rest of the pc. Recommend setting meshes to high so they scale with distance and still have higest quality close up. Also leave AO at high (since that is the ultra preset setting anyhow).

[bobz]

This has to be a loud of crap what some people are saying,

Ive tried the HD textures with my setup on a 780 ti superclocked and an i7 4790k at 4.5 and i get stutter when turning, either people are lying or there just running on high which aswell for me is flawless. Wish people wouldnt boast about their lies lol.

[Pat]

Originally posted by 'XBloodStainX':

This has to be a loud of crap what some people are saying,

Ive tried the HD textures with my setup on a 780 ti superclocked and an i7 4790k at 4.5 and i get stutter when turning, either people are lying or there just running on high which aswell for me is flawless. Wish people wouldnt boast about their lies lol.

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/531747249691871318/D5D26E456A9BD660A83DC6FB4995786B2F3F7800/

XFX R9 280 and i5-4690k, with ultra textures set.

[bobz]

benchmark isnt as demanding as the game though, Im not saying fps is slow just stutters when turning. Runs fine if it didnt stutter. :/

[Felicity]

I'm running on ultra with 3gb, with AO turned down. AO seems to be the main cause of my framerate issues. I think TB found this out? Regardless, he was right.

[SplitCoreGaming]

I find take your GPU Vram limit, then always select next highest. I am on 2Gig and using High Textures. Ultra causes endless stuttering, but then I am on a 660TI. The newest Nvidia 900 series cards have some impressive realtime compression systems, which I am confident the game utlizes, therefor a 4gb card can run the Ultra.

[Son of Rawl]

I have a 3gb card with an I5 and I can run it at Ultra with an average frame rate of 69. Not sure why they state you need so much but it would be defo nice to have.

[Mr_Bump]

Originally posted by Vigil:

I have a 3gb card with an I5 and I can run it at Ultra with an average frame rate of 69. Not sure why they state you need so much but it would be defo nice to have.

Because the Ultra textures (when you actually install them) take up 5.4Gb of video RAM. This is not up for discussion - they do. It's been tested. So if you have less that 6Gb of video RAM, your PC has to swap textures off the HDD. If you have a nice fast SSD, this might not be a major issue, but it still isn't ideal, so the devs (quite rightly) said that for best performance you need 6Gb of VRAM for the Ultra textures. That doesn't mean you can't use them, although if you aren't playing at at least 1440p you are making the game slower for no discernable benefit - the textures simply won't look any better.

[Pat]

Originally posted by Mr_Bump:

Originally posted by Vigil:

I have a 3gb card with an I5 and I can run it at Ultra with an average frame rate of 69. Not sure why they state you need so much but it would be defo nice to have.

Because the Ultra textures (when you actually install them) take up 5.4Gb of video RAM. This is not up for discussion - they do. It's been tested. So if you have less that 6Gb of video RAM, your PC has to swap textures off the HDD. If you have a nice fast SSD, this might not be a major issue, but it still isn't ideal, so the devs (quite rightly) said that for best performance you need 6Gb of VRAM for the Ultra textures. That doesn't mean you can't use them, although if you aren't playing at at least 1440p you are making the game slower for no discernable benefit - the textures simply won't look any better.

a 7200 RPM HDD isn't going to have problems either. My 1TB WD Black which is where SoM/Steam is located, my 3GB VRAM GPU runs the game fine with Ultra Textures.