Hardware & Technical Nvidia GTX 970 High VRAM

DavyDark

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Greetings to all,

I have been playing for almost a week, really enjoying the game so far.
My question is, my 970 shows just over 4gb of V-ram usage, peaked at 4.3gb. Is this normal?
I have had no FPS issues or stutter, game runs 100%. I am running on Ultra settings, no Super Sampling.
I lowered settings to High/Medium, to test, and the V-ram is still high.
As you probably know the 970's have 3.5gb and 0.5gb(slower) V-ram, so I like to keep it at just below 3.5gb.
Any help or advice on this would be great, if the game needs that much V-ram that's fine, just seems high to me.
I have read some really old post about this subject, saying to under-clock my card, not sure if this is still relevant.

CPU-i7-4770k. Asus Strix 970 4gb OC Edition. Game on SSD. 750w EVGA PSU. Everything running at stock speeds.

Thanks for your time.
 

DavyDark

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Yes, that's what its reading MSI Afterburner. Also forgot to say I am playing in 1080p. 4gb of Vram just seems high for all that is on the screen, just doing basic data courier missons at the moment to make cr.
Thanks for replying btw.
 

RobLocksley

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Guess Elite gobles up what it can get. I tweaked the config file a bit and saw my GFXvideo mem was over 10GB... So it seems getting a card with 12GB was not unrealistic.

I've for many years gone with as much video memory I can because I usually mod my games and they end up using allot of V-ram. Detractors always say things like "you only need 2GB unless you play in 4k" etc - and that may be true, but as soon as you start tweaking or trying out some graphic mods that statement goes out the window.
Only play games as they were released, yeah sure no biggi with less V-ram I would say...

Cheers
 

winterknight

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DavyDark said:
Yes, that's what its reading MSI Afterburner. Also forgot to say I am playing in 1080p. 4gb of Vram just seems high for all that is on the screen, just doing basic data courier missons at the moment to make cr.
Thanks for replying btw.
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I don't think the resolution of the monitor is important, ED processes the view at the maximum your GPU can handle, so that it captures as much as possible, but then reduces it to the screen resolution.
Or that is what I understand from the msg when you first install the game.
 

DavyDark

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Thanks for the replies,
That clears it up then. ED uses as much Vram as your gpu has, a first for me in any the games I've played, always assumed Vram was mainly used for textures and I'd love to know what textures ED is loading, cause the graphics seem pretty basic to me.
Thanks again.
 
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