Texture Streaming on or off?

[AndreTheGiant]

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[Hank]

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

[AndreTheGiant]

Originally posted by Foster Parent:

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

with gtx 1080 at on i have laggs, off no laggs

[ETucc]

Originally posted by Lumber Worm:

Originally posted by Foster Parent:

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

with gtx 1080 at on i have laggs, off no laggs

This could be the most sexual part of 1.1...

[ETucc]

I pretty much understand what texture streaming is. But what is "Texture Stream-In Only"?

[Major Issue]

When I turn it off my game immediately crash and won't launch again. Anyone else?

[ETucc]

Originally posted by BrownStain:

When I turn it off my game immediately crash and won't launch again. Anyone else?

I messed around with both texture Stream options while I was in-game and it dropped my FPS to less than 1. I could still hear audio and people talking, and eventually got kicked from the server. (connection timeout)

My game didn't crash though.

I didn't play for long but my performance overall seemed to be worse compared to before the 1.1 patch. In the changelog it says they added extra physics and stuff I think so maybe that has something to do with it.

[Roujiamo 南蛮主义者]

Originally posted by Lumber Worm:

Originally posted by Foster Parent:

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

with gtx 1080 at on i have laggs, off no laggs

I have a much worse 960 4GB, and I get much less freezes with it off aswell.

[HVA_HeadBusta]

Originally posted by ETucc:

I pretty much understand what texture streaming is. But what is "Texture Stream-In Only"?

The in-game menu tip says "Textures will only be streamed in, not out" when hovering the cursor over the option.

I'm going to assume this means it retains all the textures in a VRAM cache as they come in, so if they are needed again they don't have to reload.

If that's the case, I wouldn't use that option unless you have ample VRAM (more than 4-6GB) on your GFX card. Otherwise you will experience massive studdering caused by you VRAM being at or near maximum capacity.

[ETucc]

Originally posted by HVA_HeadBusta:

Originally posted by ETucc:

I pretty much understand what texture streaming is. But what is "Texture Stream-In Only"?

The in-game menu tip says "Textures will only be streamed in, not out" when hovering the cursor over the option.

I'm going to assume this means it retains all the textures in a VRAM cache as they come in, so if they are needed again they don't have to reload.

If that's the case, I wouldn't use that option unless you have ample VRAM (more than 4-6GB) on your GFX card. Otherwise you will experience massive studdering caused by you VRAM being at or near maximum capacity.

Thank you brother, I didn't even know the options has tips if you hover over the selection with the cursor.

[>-FISH-D]

With my 1070 I get stuttering with it on.

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Foster Parent:

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

I have a GTX 760 with 2 GB VRAM and have it off. I run the game maxed out with no issues at all.

[FBlue]

If you turn the option on, does it use the setting in ROEngine in "TextureStreaming"? Default "Pool Size" in texturestreaming is 0. From what I read I belive that means unlimited size. Shouldn't that be set depending on your memory size? Or is this a new setting? Or is it set by game?

[Slowpork]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Originally posted by Foster Parent:

I am hearing people with strong cards that have lots of VRAM can turn it off and people with simpler cards may be better off with streaming. That said, if you experiement with it, please share your experience.

I have a GTX 760 with 2 GB VRAM and have it off. I run the game maxed out with no issues at all.

1080p on ultra needs more than 3GB of VRAM. Tell me more about "running the game without issues".

[ETucc]

Originally posted by Spotter racist:

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

I have a GTX 760 with 2 GB VRAM and have it off. I run the game maxed out with no issues at all.

1080p on ultra needs more than 3GB of VRAM. Tell me more about "running the game without issues".

Maybe he doesn't play at 1080p?

Texture streaming uses less vram and more CPU power.

[Slowpork]

Originally posted by ETucc:

Originally posted by Spotter racist:

1080p on ultra needs more than 3GB of VRAM. Tell me more about "running the game without issues".

Maybe he doesn't play at 1080p?

Texture streaming uses less vram and more CPU power.

He has texture streaming turned off. I can't see how this can reduce VRAM usage. I'm gonna run some tests to see how this feature works. Right now, no one knows anything about it.

Edit: So, I've run some tests with texture steaming on/off and texture stream-in only. Here are the results:

Texture Streaming off 6500MB
Texture Streaming On 3041-3200 MB
Texture Stream-in Only + Texture Streaming 4014MB
Texture Stream-in Only 6700MB

Tested in 1080p on Ultra settings. Instanced rendering and hardware physics were switched off. SSAO on only. No FPS lock. Helicopter range.

Specs:

Sapphire nitro+ rx480 8GB with latest drivers
R5 1600x 3850MHz OC
2933 MHz ram 16GB dual channel mode
Both the game and Win 10 are installed on SSD.
I've used HWinfo64 for checking VRAM usage during the testing.