[ehpexs]

On a lot of AAA games I find myself running into vram caps even running just one display. On BF3 I get artifacts I've never seen before that don't look like memory overheating artifacts but checkboard style textures. Are there ways around this by limiting games to only use so much vram?

 

[huzzug]

the only thing you can do to limit VRam would be to dumb down a few settings. Also, the artifacts you mentioned might also be due to unstable o/c

 

[ehpexs]

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Originally Posted by huzzug

the only thing you can do to limit VRam would be to dumb down a few settings. Also, the artifacts you mentioned might also be due to unstable o/c

I've been running stock clocks and undervolting the cards, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The vram problems aren't temp related.

 

[JoinTheRealms]

running windows basic theme frees up about 100-200mb vram afaik, it was the diffrence between skyrim running smoothly and choppy on my 1gb gtx560

 

[Hatfieco]

Undervolting can cause instability. That could explain your artifacts. If your hitting your vram cap turn down aa or run fxaa instead of msaa. I dont use aa through games at all, force it through nvcp/ccc and it will typically use less vram then setting it in the game itself.

 

[h2spartan]

Wait, you're running triple Crossovers on a 3gb cards.....yeah, you def would be pushing vram to the limits while gaming at that resolution with higher settings. You would definitley have to lower graphical settings or get a card with more memory.