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This video is letterboxed. 😞 You used to upload your custom aspect ratio videos, but now I have these black bars on top and bottom (in addition to sides). It ruins the experience a bit.
 
SICK `puter, though!

You can download this demo and run it on your PC. It's real-time of course.

You can download this demo and run it on your PC. It's real-time of course.

He is saying that they will display 30 on recommended specs, not clarifying if it's a lock (it's not mentioned or suggested), but I doubt that, it sounds more like they are not aiming to optimize this game to the point it could run at 60 but rather 30.

I think it would be unfair to use 4GB. 3,5GB would reach bigger audience.

I have quoted EVERY POST in this thread to this point just so EVERYONE sees this.
 
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/32644-Obvious-Downgrade?p=1525774&viewfull=1#post1525774
 
This is a dev of CDPR saying that you can turn the settings up on PC to match the VGX trailer... which is what everyone is saying the game is being downgraded from. This basically means this entire thread and all the downgrade rumors are completely baseless.
 
I am in the process of editing the post to be tags, not quotes, so it will be fixed soon. but I wanted to get this posted ASAP
 
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He is saying that they will display 30 on recommended specs, not clarifying if it's a lock (it's not mentioned or suggested), but I doubt that, it sounds more like they are not aiming to optimize this game to the point it could run at 60 but rather 30.

This is the quote from the interview:
 
A wszystkie modele i tekstury są takie same? Are all models and textures the same?
Tak, jest tylko jedna wersja, bez tego nie bylibyśmy w stanie stworzyć gry na czas. Yes, there is only one version, otherwise we wouldn't be able to develop the game on time.
  He also states that, for example, the draw distance for grass is very similar on all platrofms. Main differences will come from GameWorks technologies but you will need a beastly rig to run those.   Reasumując, jest niewiele różnic pomiędzy PC, PlayStation 4 a Xboksem One, raczej rozwiązują pewne błędy niż zmieniają konfigurację. To sum it up, there are very little differences between PC, PS4 and XONE, they are rather solving some issues [memory usage, for example] instead of changing the [build] configuration.

Yes, that is the case. There is only one set of assets for each platform and different builds that differ by memory optimization. At least that's in this interview. I guess only Luka or any other game dev can tell us how to achieve lower res textures for lower PC settings. Maybe they have some sort of mass resize tool for them?

This source is legit, it's true, one of the dev guys said that in the interview. The assets are basically the same, they are only handling memory different on XO, PS4 and PC, eg. loading less complex models on weaker machines if they are far away from the camera. There is one build for each platform with all the same assets.
 
They are also deliberately not giving lowered minimum and recommended specs so there will be no bitching afterwards, but working on optimizing the game until the very end so they may be lowered a bit (I doubt that).

I got to 4gb, 4k DSR plus TXAA 4X in Far Cry 4. Also, didn't get any stuttering, not sure why.

I would put it this way: people are upset because we know now and not back then.

I think we have 2 issues here that needs to be looked individually
 
First, false information to reviewers, thus false advertising and late response.
 
There are some highly trained people here who know how processor architecture works, but many people do not, as it takes years of learning to understand it.
So in a way yes, they should research it, but many consumers are not Computer Engineers, and we should not expect them to be.
That is the reason why true advertising is important, and it is against the law for false advertising in many countries.
There are benchmarks, that is correct, but still, the card is marketed at 4 GB and 226 Gb/s (or something like that), that cannot achieve at 3.5GB of usage or above. Today it is rare, but in a year or two time it might be everyday, as games tend to use more and more VRAM
 
Secondly, the rest
 
Forget AMD, they are not connected in any way
Yes this card is still a good card, did not lost its performance magically. In the future, when games needs more VRAM, it might change ( not everyone upgrade their card every year or two)
 
But the problem here is false information got to the customer, that nVidia made happen and let it happen.