Need Help From Game Modders

[vigorstick]

Getting a GTX 970 4GB soon and was wondering if 4GB is enough for heavy modding in skyrim, and please let me know what graphics card you have, how much vram is on your card, and what is your performance like with skyrim mods and/or any other games that you mod, whether it is heavy modding or light modding.

 

And I also was wondering if this is how vram works: if a graphics card has 4GB of vram, the game will use up however much vram it needs to run and whatever amount is left over is what can be used for modding. Am I right with this?

 

My specs:

 i7 4770k @3.5GHz (overclocking soon)

ASUS Sabertooth Z87

ADATA XPG 16GB @1866MHz

128GB ADATA SX900 SSD & WD Black 1TB HDD

Seasonic 750W 

[Pugs501]

What's the rest of your build?

[Gofspar]

Yep, I barely use my 4gb buffer in my GTX 760.

[CJPowell27]

Should handle it easily, I'm using almost all of my 2 Gb and I'm running 200ish mods and TK Enb, you'll be good

[Fulgrim]

Depends on if you fancy using a load of 4k texture mods. 

[vigorstick]

Depends on if you fancy using a load of 4k texture mods. 

I have only a single 1080p TV, so I'm assuming maxed out settings for skyrim with mods will be fine.

[Fulgrim]

I have only a single 1080p TV, so I'm assuming maxed out settings for skyrim with mods will be fine.

I have about ~180 mods installed atm, with a load of HD textures & an enb (as a load of .ini edits for 4k shadows, uGridstoload=7 etc) with the rig in my sig. I run it on average about 45 - 50fps. Now and again it drops to ~30fps, but it's tolerable. 

 

Your i7 will hand my Phenom II it's arse on a silver platter, even at stock. You won't have any problem, just don't go too mad with 4k texture mods, try the Skyrim HD Lite for high res textures - 2k resolution is just fine for 1080p.

[Firearm2112]

as a skyrim player, 3 gigs is ideal. so 2-4 should be fine