WTF: My 2080 Ti doesn’t have enough VRAM for Resident Evil 2? ?

[GamerBlake]

I was looking into the “graphics” settings while playing RE2 and I got this message indicating that 12GB+ of vram is needed to play at max settings.

 

How is that even possible when a 2080 Ti only has 11GB and only a monster like a Titan RTX (which costs thousands of dollars) has more than 12GB of vram??

 

Is this an error?  

[Mira Yurizaki]

Play with those settings anyway and see what happens. You can also monitor VRAM usage on Task Manager to see what it's really doing.

[Taf the Ghost]

@GamerBlake clearly you need to buy a Radeon VII.

[GamerBlake]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Play with those settings anyway and see what happens. You can also monitor VRAM usage on Task Manager to see what it's really doing.

Ok I’ll try that.

 

Do you know if it’s possible for the gpu to use the systems DDR4 ram if there’s not enough vram?

 

I know DDR4 ram is slower but if there’s no other choice wouldn’t it work?

[steelo]

I'd say it's probably miscalculating how much vRAM it's using. With my old RX 570 w/ 4GB vRAM, I always set it too high and received the same error at the beginning. Yet, I kept playing with no issues or errors.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, Taf the Ghost said:

@GamerBlake clearly you need to buy a Radeon VII.

No way! I could never afford one of those.

 

Plus I read lots of bad reviews about them.

[TheGlenlivet]

Vega 64 Frontier or you are playing on a Potato!

[GamerBlake]

2 minutes ago, steelo said:

I'd say it's probably miscalculating how much vRAM it's using. With my old RX 570 w/ 4GB vRAM, I always set it too high and received the same error at the beginning. Yet, I kept playing with no issues or errors.

That’s what I’m thinking too.

 

It just doesn’t make sense for the RE2 developers to make a game that requires a $1200 investment to play it at its best settings. I don’t think ANY single game should require more than like 8GB of vram.

[Taf the Ghost]

1 minute ago, GamerBlake said:

No way! I could never afford one of those.

 

Plus I read lots of bad reviews about them.

Drivers with the RVII is definitely a bit messy, but it's also a card that's really best used for Productivity. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

Ok I’ll try that.

 

Do you know if it’s possible for the gpu to use the systems DDR4 ram if there’s not enough vram?

 

I know DDR4 ram is slower but if there’s no other choice wouldn’t it work?

GPUs will page data out from VRAM to system RAM if it needs to. I did do some limited testing on other games to see how they'd react to less VRAM available to them and while average performance did suffer, it surprisingly wasn't a stuttering mess that people seem to think happens. Plus there are games with options to either fill the remaining VRAM for shader caching or to limit VRAM consumption for some reason.

 

I'm sure you'll be fine. VRAM calculators can only estimate what they'll use.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, Taf the Ghost said:

Drivers with the RVII is definitely a bit messy, but it's also a card that's really best used for Productivity. 

Well yeah that’s understandable if people use it for like work or science or working on science or AI development or something like that.

 

But my computer is solely for gaming (and streaming games with NVENC) so it probably wouldn’t be a good choice for me.

 

Especially if I replaced my 2080 Ti with it since the 2080 Ti has less vram but is much faster according to userbenchmark comparisons.

[Taf the Ghost]

1 minute ago, GamerBlake said:

Well yeah that’s understandable if people use it for like work or science or working on science or AI development or something like that.

 

But my computer is solely for gaming (and streaming games with NVENC) so it probably wouldn’t be a good choice for me.

 

Especially if I replaced my 2080 Ti with it since the 2080 Ti has less vram but is much faster according to userbenchmark comparisons.

I was making a joke, but UserBenchmark is also absolute trash. The 2080 Ti is about 40% faster.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, GamerBlake said:

Well yeah that’s understandable if people use it for like work or science or working on science or AI development or something like that.

 

But my computer is solely for gaming (and streaming games with NVENC) so it probably wouldn’t be a good choice for me.

 

Especially if I replaced my 2080 Ti with it since the 2080 Ti has less vram but is much faster according to userbenchmark comparisons.

2080 Ti is way faster. The RVII's VRAM is way faster, and there's more of it, but the GPU itself is a lot less powerful. Also yes drivers are basically a nightmare and Wattman hates itself and needs to cease existence. 

[Midnitewolf]

Personally I think we got spoiled over the years.   It wasn't too long ago that games were intentionally designed so that even premium grade hardware wouldn't allow you to run all your setting at maximum.  Crysis comes to mind.  I think when it first came out, the expectation was that people would be playing the game on medium settings and that with the best hardware available, medium-high might be attainable.

 

In this case it sounds like this game might be a lot like this, designed to take advantage of hardware not currently in use on the market.  I mean honestly it was only a few years ago where 8 GB of VRAM was considered overkill and here we are with quite a few games pushing that envelop.  It isn't going to be long before 12 GB or even 16 GB becomes the new 8 GB. 

[steelo]

7 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

That’s what I’m thinking too.

 

It just doesn’t make sense for the RE2 developers to make a game that requires a $1200 investment to play it at its best settings. I don’t think ANY single game should require more than like 8GB of vram.

Unless it involves ray tracing...lol

[GamerBlake]

Just now, steelo said:

Unless it involves ray tracing...lol

Actually I think Nvidia released a driver that allows for ray tracing on older cards from the 1000 series.

 

I recall downloading a driver like that when I had my 1070 Ti that allowed it to enable ray tracing.

[GamerBlake]

3 minutes ago, Midnitewolf said:

Personally I think we got spoiled over the years.   It wasn't too long ago that games were intentionally designed so that even premium grade hardware wouldn't allow you to run all your setting at maximum.  Crysis comes to mind.  I think when it first came out, the expectation was that people would be playing the game on medium settings and that with the best hardware available, medium-high might be attainable.

 

In this case it sounds like this game might be a lot like this, designed to take advantage of hardware not currently in use on the market.  I mean honestly it was only a few years ago where 8 GB of VRAM was considered overkill and here we are with quite a few games pushing that envelop.  It isn't going to be long before 12 GB or even 16 GB becomes the new 8 GB. 

That could be it.

 

I just ran the game though and I’m getting about 160 FPS at 2560x1440p & my monitor is 144 hz so 160 FPS & 144 hz seems like it’s still getting good performance and more than my monitor can take advantage of.  

[Kilrah]

Yeah but it's total BS, it's only meant to show you how while you can run it it will put out 2fps and how much you really need to buy the new hardware if you want ray tracing.

[steelo]

18 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

That could be it.

 

I just ran the game though and I’m getting about 160 FPS at 2560x1440p & my monitor is 144 hz so 160 FPS & 144 hz seems like it’s still getting good performance and more than my monitor can take advantage of.  

You suck...LOL

 

I am 'only' able to get 60 fps at 1080p on a RX 570 playing RE2. 

[xg32]

52 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

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it's a known issue with RE2, just ignore it. The actual usage is around 8gb vram (not that i'd play on max, it's not efficient)