Can modded Skyrim use more than 2GB of VRAM?

[orangecat]

I will be upgrading to a GTX 770 or whatever 800/900 series equivalent comes out and i want to know if Skyrim can use 4GB of VRAM. Currently I have 768MB and my heavily modded Skyrim always maxes out my VRAM and causes stuttering and other lag problems. I want to get a 4GB card but i don't know if Skyrim will be able to use all of the VRAM. i do whatever I can to save a few megabytes of VRAM so that means low res shadows playing at 720p and lowering some texture resolution options but I dont want to anymore.

 

By the way i basically play Skyrim 24/7 and I don't know of any other games you can mod that will use a ton of RAM except Skyrim.

 

ALSO i don't care if a 770 cant use all 4GB of VRAM because ill spend the tiny bit of extra money to double my VRAM even if it makes no benefit to my FPS i would rather have to much and not be able to use it than not enough, plus i want to 'future proof" my pc as much as I can because I haven't upgraded it in quite some time and I don;'t plan on doing so for like another 3-4 years.

[Shd0w2]

it can use 6gb, if you mod it to shit enough.

[helping]

ye

 

also take that ram and ovaclock it

on my 770 it was ez mode to get up to 8ghz

[TheKDub]

Yes, though it mainly depends on the amount of graphical mods you have added, such as 4k textures and such.

 

 

On my laptop which only had around 1gb of dedicated vram I doubt skyrim maxed it out and I had 70+ mods installed, that is until my laptop died a few days ago..

[Unhelpful]

I will be upgrading to a GTX 770 or whatever 800/900 series equivalent comes out and i want to know if Skyrim can use 4GB of VRAM. Currently I have 768MB and my heavily modded Skyrim always maxes out my VRAM and causes stuttering and other lag problems. I want to get a 4GB card but i don't know if Skyrim will be able to use all of the VRAM. i do whatever I can to save a few megabytes of VRAM so that means low res shadows playing at 720p and lowering some texture resolution options but I dont want to anymore.

 

By the way i basically play Skyrim 24/7 and I don't know of any other games you can mod that will use a ton of RAM except Skyrim.

 

ALSO i don't care if a 770 cant use all 4GB of VRAM because ill spend the tiny bit of extra money to double my VRAM even if it makes no benefit to my FPS i would rather have to much and not be able to use it than not enough, plus i want to 'future proof" my pc as much as I can because I haven't upgraded it in quite some time and I don;'t plan on doing so for like another 3-4 years.

Yeah, brb finding the memory expansion in the .ini

[SAV1OUR]

i'm running 2gb with a heavily modded game, some times i run into memory issues but its very rare 

[orangecat]

it can use 6gb, if you mod it to shit enough.

I'm talking VRAM not system ram and yea my Skyrim will use up nearly all 8GB of my system ram when I have been playing long enough.

[orangecat]

Yes, though it mainly depends on the amount of graphical mods you have added, such as 4k textures and such.

I do like bumping up the texture res when i can.

[orangecat]

i'm running 2gb with a heavily modded game, some times i run into memory issues but its very rare 

Does Skyrim run into stuttering issues on your 680?

[Fulgrim]

Not bothered monitoring my VRAM usage yet, but i know i'm near or over 3GB VRAM. I have a shit-ton of high res textures (mainly 4k, rest is 2k), with 4k shadows etc.

[SAV1OUR]

Does Skyrim run into stuttering issues on your 680?

if you get some of the stutter fixes of the nexus you should be fine 

[Unhelpful]

I'm talking VRAM not system ram and yea my Skyrim will use up nearly all 8GB of my system ram when I have been playing long enough.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50214/? 

check this guide out

[Vacsol]

my 2gb 760 starts to crash once I add more than 60 or so visual mods.

[Shd0w2]

I'm talking VRAM not system ram and yea my Skyrim will use up nearly all 8GB of my system ram when I have been playing long enough.

Yes, I was talking VRAM. you can use 6gb of vram modding to shit.

[Aniallation]

I'm talking VRAM not system ram and yea my Skyrim will use up nearly all 8GB of my system ram when I have been playing long enough.

He is talking VRAM. And he's talking truth. Skyrim will fill up a 6GB 780 if you're a hardcore modder

[Polyvalent]

I stopped playing skyrim when SKSE stopped working for me and I was too lazy to figure out why.  Half my mods broke because of this.

[VulsaviiK]

Just checked then. Yepp, with I think 115 mods from Steam Workshop installed, I'm floating between 1900MB and Max Vram usage

 

 

also take that ram and ovaclock it

on my 770 it was ez mode to get up to 8ghz

 

I suspect this would help

[orangecat]

Yes, I was talking VRAM. you can use 6gb of vram modding to shit.

Other than that unreal guy with the epic Skyrim i didn't think it could get that crazy.

[orangecat]

I stopped playing skyrim when SKSE stopped working for me and I was too lazy to figure out why.  Half my mods broke because of this.

That happened to me once and i think what happened was NMM overwrite one of skse scripts. I use MO now and I havent had 1 issue yet.

[Polyvalent]

That happened to me once and i think what happened was NMM overwrite one of skse scripts. I use MO now and I havent had 1 issue yet.

 

MO?

[frostin1990]

Yes and so can garry's mod

[orangecat]

MO?

Mod organizer.

[DirtySHISNO]

I'm running around 87 mods on skyrim, a mixture of 4k and 2k visuals. Then an ENB on top, just to load a save file my vram usage jumps up to 2.3GB of the 3GB my GTX 780 has. Typically skyrim will crash easily, where other games would still run, if i try to push the memory overclock to much.

[Inkz]

In my experience with a few mods mine was hovering around 2.3-2.6 so I would say yes.

[Pounds]

i'm running 2gb with a heavily modded game, some times i run into memory issues but its very rare 

 

But is it heavily modded Skyrim? Yes that's important to note. There are games that can be heavily modded but still take little effort to run.