Is the VRAM requirement for Shadows of Mordor bs?

@Jawad2007: Oh, thanks for the detailed images.

Its pretty obvious that the game uses more than 3GB VRAM. 3844MB and 3461MB.

ps: MSI has made this card to have nice temps. Really impressive. :)

ps2: It also uses 8 threads! Thats nice!

Yeah it stutters quite bad at max, it uses all my VRAM. Makes me wish I kept my 290 lol

yeah but only if you want around 30-ish fps average. but doable. on a 670 with 2 gb with everything on ultra, it is at the 35 fps range. some weather causes some microstuttering.

@Postmortem123: one of the reasons that i got this card is the V ram , and i m thinking of crossfireing it :) , cant wait to try the Evil withen , I love survival horror .

What cpu do you have? because my GTX 760 2gb gets 60 fps average on ultra with high textures

a 3930k

It's not a bad port...

If you have vsync on and your fps drops below your monitors refresh rate, the framerate will drop to 30 fps. This happens with EVERY game, its not a problem with Shadows of Mordor. The way to fix it is to use triple buffering or borderless full screen mode.

Well this is true, but people report of having 30fps lock even without V-sync.

And after Need for Speed 30fps scandal, I am not surpirsed anymore...

Need for Speed was completely different, I don't understand what your're trying to point out. Shadow of Mordor does not have a 30 FPS lock.

i think this game does over estimate the vram you need. I'm playing the game at very high setting and it said to have 3 gigs of vram, but i only have 2 gigs on my 680gtx... and i ran gpu-z to monitor it, and most of the game it was using about 1800 megabytes of vram... it max'd at 2000 only briefly at times. With about 60-80 fps at 1080p (dips down to 50 fps in some cases, average fps is probably mid 60s).

At Ultra setting though it was max'd at 2 gigs the entire time... and the framerate was 10-15 fps lower, but not unplayable... not even jittery. Couldn't see a noticeable difference in high and ultra so i can stick with high... i probably wouldnt notice unless i screenshoted and compared them up close.

Weird bug though, i had to disable dx11 tessellation cause it was causing some strange little bright dots in some parts of the game (lots on the cape of the character)... it had a very low performance hit though (1-3 fps) so if it wasnt so ugly and buggy i probably would have left it on. I didn't try any older drivers to try to fix it cause its an effect thats hard to notice unless your standing still and screenshot comparing on and off.

I just got sweetfx running in the game so im testing that out, it has very low impact on performance and the smaa is really helping take out the edges. I think less then 3-5 fps hit from my early tests of it.

I have vsync off btw, and depth of field, and motion blur. (these are off not to increase performance but because they are awful in every game)

I am trying to point out since my first post that people complaining that game locks at 30FPS without V-sync even. You might not experience the same problem for many reasons (perhaps different GPU and drivers etc etc). That doesn't mean other people cannot experience problems cause one PC doesn't.

And Need for Speed was a product of bad port. You could just change to 60FPS by adding a command in the .exe. And from the complains that I read, Shadow of Mordor seems like a bad port.

There is a big difference between very high and ultra.

Ultra on 1080p requires you to have 3,5gb of v-ram.

Played throught the whole game with a R9 270 at 2560x1080 with everything on the highest settings without AA and the textures on Medium... Got 40-50FPS.

Running it on the same settings with my GTX 960 only with a little higher framerate around 50-60FPS.

The textures above medium does give me some stutter. I assume you need at least 3-4GB in order to get the textures maxed out.. That being said the textures are great on medium.

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