Ryse: Son of Rome on less than 1GB of VRAM?

[orangecat]

I'm considering buying Ryse but i don't have a beefy GPU or lots of VRAM. I have seen videos of it being played on a GTX 460 but only on the 1GB model and the VRAM was always maxed out. I know CryEngine is very good at saving VRAM and making games playable on most systems but I'm worried it wont run at all or if it does run it will run poorly. I am rune with playing it on low settings and at 720P I just want to be able to average 30FPS and have it not be a skippy nightmare like Skyrim when it runs low on VRAM.

[vern021]

With less than 1GB of VRAM it would probably look like crap.

[VG Docs]

I'm considering buying Ryse but i don't have a beefy GPU or lots of VRAM. I have seen videos of it being played on a GTX 460 but only on the 1GB model and the VRAM was always maxed out. I know CryEngine is very good at saving VRAM and making games playable on most systems but I'm worried it wont run at all or if it does run it will run poorly. I am rune with playing it on low settings and at 720P I just want to be able to average 30FPS and have it not be a skippy nightmare like Skyrim when it runs low on VRAM.

Your GTX 460 will do the job fine at low settings & 720p. The game will look much worse obviously, but you probably already know that.

You should be able to handle medium well too, maybe even high. 

[orangecat]

With less than 1GB of VRAM it would probably look like crap.

I don't care what it looks like I want to play the game because it looks good.

[orangecat]

Your GTX 460 will do the job fine at low settings & 720p. The game will look much worse obviously, but you probably already know that.

You should be able to handle medium well too, maybe even high. 

Will it actually run because the trend right now seems to be high end graphics and 4K i don't have either of them so i assume my GPU is way to slow.

[vern021]

I don't care what it looks like I want to play the game because it looks good.

But you said you don't care what it looks like but still like it because it looks good? Hahahaha You mean you like the gameplay right?

 

 

Well, the best solution to your problem is to buy the game and see if it runs smoothly at lowest settings then crank up a notch some of the settings until you're comfortable with the gameplay. 

[VG Docs]

Will it actually run because the trend right now seems to be high end graphics and 4K i don't have either of them so i assume my GPU is way to slow.

Sorry for the late response, but yeah, it'll run smoothly at 720p on low. System requirements are more of a guideline really, if they weren't - my 9500 GT/E5300 rig wouldn't have played BF3 smoothly.

[typographie]

Will it actually run because the trend right now seems to be high end graphics and 4K i don't have either of them so i assume my GPU is way to slow.

 

I'm pretty confident in saying that it will actually run. Its a matter of how well. I used to play BF4 at 1080p with a GTX 460. It took low settings, but managed 40-60 FPS.

 

Unfortunately I never played a CryEngine 3 game (Crysis 3, Ryse, Star Citizen) when I had it. But I'm sure it would be playable at low-ish settings. 

[Noctus]

I don't care what it looks like I want to play the game because it looks good.

It might look good, but its a QTE fest with blood.

[xlildarkx]

If it's any help, I was able to run Ryse on my laptop running on Intel HD 4600 at 1024x768 resolution downsampled by 50% lol Didn't look too terrible.. okay maybe it looked terrible lol but did the job and it ran at 30fps 90% of the time. On the other hand, I was able to run it on my desktop with a GTX 650 at 1280x960 resolution smoothly. Still looked decent for my purposes. Mind you for all of these i had the game running on lowest settings