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post #51 of 81
7/5/12 at 7:45am
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Sorry about that, I wasn't pertaining to using a 120Hz affecting vRAM consumption. I was saying that using a 120Hz monitor will not be effective because it would be very hard for a system that can push framerates on the 100+ range and this defeats the purpose of using a refresh rate of 120Hz. Unless of course if you sacrifice image quality for pure performance.

Depends a lot on the game, though ... plus some folks just aren't happy with 60fps, and want more than that but don't want tearing ... in theory you can run a 120MHz monitor up to 120FPS w/o tearing, so there's still some benefit even if you're not actually pushing 120fps thumb.gif
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7/5/12 at 1:58pm
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your VRAM doesnt "stack" so to speak you only have the total VRAM of the lowest card.

I don't know where you see that tongue.gif but it wasn't that anyway what I was meaning tongue.gif (but I know that wink.gif having 2 different cards will use lowest one.)
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post #53 of 81
7/5/12 at 5:25pm
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Depends a lot on the game, though ... plus some folks just aren't happy with 60fps, and want more than that but don't want tearing ... in theory you can run a 120MHz monitor up to 120FPS w/o tearing, so there's still some benefit even if you're not actually pushing 120fps thumb.gif

Makes sense. No need to enable vSYNC anymore in my case smile.gif
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7/5/12 at 5:44pm
Good way to test VRAM limit on a 2Gb card is if you have Rage the game edit the Rageconfig.cfg file (google is your friend) to use 16k textures then you get 2GB+ usage and it turns into a slide show all the while not looking any better. For the Lol's haha
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7/6/12 at 6:07am
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i used the 8k i think it is and my 460 still went fine i might give the 16K a go when can be both'd thumb.gif
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post #56 of 81
7/6/12 at 8:52am
The fps just dips lower than french fries.

Good thing I will never run out, at least for a while. Still playing 720p-900p lawl. I know because I tried playing battlefield 3 at 1440 res before with 1.2gb of vram. Wasn't very nice experience smile.gif
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7/6/12 at 8:53am
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Good way to test VRAM limit on a 2Gb card is if you have Rage the game edit the Rageconfig.cfg file (google is your friend) to use 16k textures then you get 2GB+ usage and it turns into a slide show all the while not looking any better. For the Lol's haha
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Good way to test VRAM limit on a 2Gb card is if you have Rage the game edit the Rageconfig.cfg file (google is your friend) to use 16k textures then you get 2GB+ usage and it turns into a slide show all the while not looking any better. For the Lol's haha

When I played Rage, it was just 20gb worth of useless textures.
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post #58 of 81
7/6/12 at 9:07am
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When I played Rage, it was just 20gb worth of useless textures.

Hahaha yeah its a bit average the tech is cool and overall it looks good just dont get to close to the mega texture it's a bit blurry.

Max Payne 3 on the other hand looks insanely good and doesn't even use 2gb of Vram with everything on and 4xMSAA
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7/6/12 at 9:11am
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Hahaha yeah its a bit average the tech is cool and overall it looks good just dont get to close to the mega texture it's a bit blurry.
Max Payne 3 on the other hand looks insanely good and doesn't even use 2gb of Vram with everything on and 4xMSAA

Rage graphic wise is like a Call of Duty game except with its textures. Absolutly no dynamic objects and physics at all lol.
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post #60 of 81
7/6/12 at 7:04pm
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Rage graphic wise is like a Call of Duty game except with its textures. Absolutly no dynamic objects and physics at all lol.

Sorry for the OT, but, since y'all are talking about Rage ...

Although I've just 'started' ... it's also might just be THE most boring game I think I ever remember playing ... never seen a game that does less to 'get you into it' than Rage. Never been filled with such a sense of "and I want to play this WHY?" in my life.

It seems games have lost the art of 'sucking you in', and feeling exciting right from the beginning. I think back to like Half Life 2, Prey, FEAR, Doom 3, Bioshock ... the first 10-15 minutes of those games were PHENOMENAL in terms of setting up the story and making you want to play the game.

Can't remember a game that had me excited like those old games, right from the git-go, since ... I dunno ... Far Cry 2? Being a nameless nobody on a long, uneventful jeep ride to start out a game was just, like ... riveting ...
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