Is the high resolution texture pack worth it?

[WazzzUppp]

I just bought the game and noticed there is an extra high resolution texture pack, is it worth it at all? Is it a big performance hit? I will be running the game at 1440p with:
RTX2070
I7 9700k
16gb DDR4

[cswiger]

Sure, it's quite worth it at 1440p, not just at 4k.

So long as you have an 8 GB VRAM card, you won't really have a performance hit in game, although load times are longer on especially for a HDD. SSDs are fast enough that you won't really notice. The DLC was aimed for 1070 or above, and should do just fine on a 2070.

[CheesusPrice]

Will a 3060 cut it at 1080/60fps?
Also, Ryzen 7 5800x

[cswiger]

Originally posted by CheesusPrice:

Will a 3060 cut it at 1080/60fps?

Probably? But the Hi-Res texture pack doesn't really do much if you are at 1080 resolution.

[CheesusPrice]

Originally posted by cswiger:

Originally posted by CheesusPrice:

Will a 3060 cut it at 1080/60fps?

Probably? But the Hi-Res texture pack doesn't really do much if you are at 1080 resolution.

Can confirm that 3060 at 1080/60fps runs it buttery smooth. I haven't noticed the high resolution, but I feel if I delete it and go back to normal resolution that's when I'll start seeing the differences.

[Bricky strong]

High rez textures do look better at 1080p especially for distant detail. They'll look better at 720p.

I f you have blurry vision its easier to read sharp writing. If you have blurred vision good luck reading blurred writing. Display resolution is like your vision (whether 20/20 or better or worse) and the textures are like writing on paper. (sharper writing being easier to see than smuged)

[Nussy Snake]

I play at 1080p 100fps (RTX 2080 Super), and what's strange is that even though I don't have the HD Textures enabled, just having the pack installed made the game run better for some reason.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Its Just utilizing it better as its more in line graphically with what a 2080S can handle.
Any decent GPU with AT LEAST 8GB VRAM can easily max the game out, but the 8GB VRAM is a requirement.

Enabling the High Page Pool setting can also help in systems with 16GB+ RAM
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The game is so optimized that even with an OCd 2500k and a GTX 1070 even i can max it at 1080p with the texture pack, even without a 1440p or 4K monitor the textures are still a higher quality.

So in short, with a decent enough system there is no reason Not to use the Texture Pack, unless you are limited on drive space.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

High rez textures do look better at 1080p especially for distant detail. They'll look better at 720p.

Huh, that's odd. Normally, hi-rez textures improve the appearance of close objects and don't affect things far away. That's because the game ought to already provide mip-mapped versions of the distant textures precomputed and sometimes hand-tweaked for LOD1, 2, etc.

But maybe the Hi-Rez pack for this game replaces or improves the existing mip-mapped LOD1+ versions as well as adding higher resolution LOD0 textures?

Or if the base game didn't come with all of the LOD1+ mip-maps to lower the disk space used, and needed to generate them on the fly, then having them now be available with the texture pack would reduce stuttering from I/O and runtime load on the GPU, leading to the result mentioned in #6.