GPU for STEP Ultra.

[Besidilo]

I have a gtx580 with 1.5 gb and have big problems because of stutter, when i go with too many 2048 texture mods, so i have to downgrade many mods to 1024 and i hate that.

I think to max out everything with 2k Mods you would need a 2 GB Vram Card minimum, but even then i would be afraid of some stutter from time to time (even on 1920x1080). If you want to be sure i would suggest 3 GB or even 4 GB (its kinda futureproof too).

 

My benchmarks btw from this week: https://forum.step-project.com/showthread.php?tid=1858

At some points i experienced medium stuttering and had to downgrade mods and shadows

I have a GTX 580 1.5GB at the moment too, and I'm getting by at 2560x1440.

 

SMAA, no hardware AA, everything on Ultra, mix of 1024 and 2048 textures, a little DDSopt optimisation and making sure your system is not draining resources. Perhaps a little memory bandwidth overclock, ATTK, disabling Aero.

 

I'm close to maxing out, but I manage. Almost upgraded to a 7970 3GB twice now, but the first time I would have to purchase two graphics cards, which was off putting (turned out to be a mistake to pass on that), the second time I had to decline the offer as the graphics card had no DVI-D Dual-link slots, even though it was top of the range of those series...

[Momitja]

I have a gtx580 with 1.5 gb and have big problems because of stutter, when i go with too many 2048 texture mods, so i have to downgrade many mods to 1024 and i hate that.

I think to max out everything with 2k Mods you would need a 2 GB Vram Card minimum, but even then i would be afraid of some stutter from time to time (even on 1920x1080). If you want to be sure i would suggest 3 GB or even 4 GB (its kinda futureproof too).

 

My benchmarks btw from this week: https://forum.step-project.com/showthread.php?tid=1858

At some points i experienced medium stuttering and had to downgrade mods and shadows

I have a GTX 580 1.5GB at the moment too, and I'm getting by at 2560x1440.

 

SMAA, no hardware AA, everything on Ultra, mix of 1024 and 2048 textures, a little DDSopt optimisation and making sure your system is not draining resources. Perhaps a little memory bandwidth overclock, ATTK, disabling Aero.

 

I'm close to maxing out, but I manage. Almost upgraded to a 7970 3GB twice now, but the first time I would have to purchase two graphics cards, which was off putting (turned out to be a mistake to pass on that), the second time I had to decline the offer as the graphics card had no DVI-D Dual-link slots, even though it was top of the range of those series...

I dsopted the HRDLC Packs and some official BSAs.

Extracted every BSA into loose files.

I use a mix of 1k and 2k, too.

I am using ATTk.

OCd the memory to 2050 Mhz.

Have Win 8, so idk if there is any aero around anymore. Don't think so.

 

So, i really do not know what to do anymore to eliminate all stuttering especially on wide outside areas. Stuttering is not bad at the moment, but on some places it's annoying, especially if you want to hunt something and turn around fast. If you have any other suggestions to optimize vram, please give it to me.

I didnt dsopt any mod, yet, only did a test and there was no real vram decrease.

[Momitja]

By the way, my vram value is at around 400 to 450 when i am ingame on the startscreen BEFORE i load a game.

[Besidilo]

That does sound quite bad indeed. I hope I didn't just get used to microstuttering and live with it, but I'll make sure to test it a bit more and report the findings.

 

I get rather great FPS with no ENB.

[envelope91]

It's strange how some games run perfectly smooth (with no mouse lag) at 30 fps whilst some games must be at least 60 fps...

[m3dicat3d]

I deleted this, took up too much room and was of dubious use to anyone...

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