Video Memory Seems Odd

[Helion]

last patch it showed me that my video memory usage was fine when using ultra textures, now with the new one it uses more? thing is the lowest it ever got was 85 fps so something seems very odd here...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1171143254

[Master Zone]

The 4k textures use way too much VRAM in my opinion. In Shadow of Mordor the 4k textures (which look exactly the same as the SoW 4k textures) used at most 5GB VRAM, yet on Shadow of War it wants to use over 8GB VRAM, that just seems insane!

Either they are lazy, or they are working with Nvidia by uping to requirements to force us to buy new cards.

[Nethlem]

Maybe you didn't have the texture pack actually installed prior to the last patch, that's why your VRAM usage on ultra was shown as low?

Has been like this for me since launch, using ultra textures the game spits out a VRAM warning even when using a 1080.

[Helion]

Originally posted by Nethlem:

Maybe you didn't have the texture pack actually installed prior to the last patch, that's why your VRAM usage on ultra was shown as low?

Has been like this for me since launch, using ultra textures the game spits out a VRAM warning even when using a 1080.

No I destinctly remember that it moved up but not by that much last time

[Helion]

Originally posted by Master Zone:

The 4k textures use way too much VRAM in my opinion. In Shadow of Mordor the 4k textures (which look exactly the same as the SoW 4k textures) used at most 5GB VRAM, yet on Shadow of War it wants to use over 8GB VRAM, that just seems insane!

Either they are lazy, or they are working with Nvidia by uping to requirements to force us to buy new cards.

to be honest there are alot more textures this time around

[DrummahMike]

Originally posted by Helion:

Originally posted by Master Zone:

The 4k textures use way too much VRAM in my opinion. In Shadow of Mordor the 4k textures (which look exactly the same as the SoW 4k textures) used at most 5GB VRAM, yet on Shadow of War it wants to use over 8GB VRAM, that just seems insane!

Either they are lazy, or they are working with Nvidia by uping to requirements to force us to buy new cards.

to be honest there are alot more textures this time around

For real. SoW has a ♥♥♥♥ ton more textures which are being displayed all at once. That dude is high.

[KelloHitty]

Originally posted by Master Zone:

The 4k textures use way too much VRAM in my opinion. In Shadow of Mordor the 4k textures (which look exactly the same as the SoW 4k textures) used at most 5GB VRAM, yet on Shadow of War it wants to use over 8GB VRAM, that just seems insane!

Either they are lazy, or they are working with Nvidia by uping to requirements to force us to buy new cards.

There was no 4K textures for SoM, only HD.
And you got to be kidding, it does not look the same, its by far better textures now or you are only using a potatoe PC with HD screen, low resolution or Dynamic Resolution activated.
On a 4K screen the difference is huge between the games.

[Anduron_Lazul]

My 800 USD gaming laptop cannot run Borderlands 2, Shadow of Mordor or Shadow of War at more than 20 FPS on lowest settings. Rise Of The Tomb Raider and Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider have an average of 60-90 FPS on medium-high.

What am I doing wrong?

[KelloHitty]

Originally posted by ShadowX & Falerin:

My 800 USD gaming laptop cannot run Borderlands 2, Shadow of Mordor or Shadow of War at more than 20 FPS on lowest settings. Rise Of The Tomb Raider and Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider have an average of 60-90 FPS on medium-high.

What am I doing wrong?

Try lowering all settings and go from there and up a setting at a time. Probably some setting is more heavy on your chip then others.
But when it comes to gaming laptops, the most common issue is that the game isn't detected as a game and runs on the CPU internal GPU instead of the dedicated GPU. Usually there's a software utility from the maker of the laptop that makes you select witch programs to run with the dedicated gpu.