Can the 3.5g of vram on 970 casue stuttering in Shadow of Mordor?

[cooperb21]

Im wondering becuase i have just tested Shadow of Mordor not having tested it on my new gtx 970 yet and it seems to have stuttering when im using Ultra textures and its gone when i go down to high. Is this just the game or is it the 970 vram issue affecting it and it cant use ultra textures?

 

Would a 4g card have same affect since it says you need a 6g card to run ultra.

[Prikk]

I'm on Very High 1440p. It uses about 3.4-3.6gb of VRAM. no stuttering at all. Quite surprised how well it ran actually.

[Enderman]

look at afterburner and see if its using over 3.5GB of vram

[Majestic]

If it does, you can easily just dial back on MSAA or Texture quality to fix it.

[Ssoele]

It's the game.

 

Also, the 970 has 4GBs of VRAM, not 3.5GB.

[cooperb21]

I'm on Very High 1440p. It uses about 3.4-3.6gb of VRAM. no stuttering at all. Quite surprised how well it ran actually.

Then why does it only happen in this game for me?

[The Pizza Thief]

Check this video, you will see how the 970 behaves at Shadow of mordor, as well as other games.

 

[cooperb21]

It's the game.

 

Also, the 970 has 4GBs of VRAM, not 3.5GB.

Then why cant i use all 4g? Most games seem to stop at 3.5 every other video cards all vram is usable.

[Butterfish]

Then why cant i use all 4g? Most games seem to stop at 3.5 every other video cards all vram is usable.

It's a limit nvidia has set in the drivers. The card physically has 4GB of total memory.

[Prikk]

Then why does it only happen in this game for me?

Play on Very high texture instead? Honestly it doesnt look that much different.

[SuperPug]

Check this video, you will see how the 970 behaves at Shadow of mordor, as well as other games.

 

 

I really like JayZtwocents but that video is completely pointless... He doesn't manage to get the Memory usage over 3.5GB in his 1080p tests and just concludes that the GTX 970 cant use more than 3.5GB - which is just plain wrong.

 

To OP: Check this out it seems to run fine even with Memory usage close to 4GB

[coen113]

It's the game.

 

Also, the 970 has 4GBs of VRAM, not 3.5GB.

in theory its 4 GB, but, the last 0,5 gb is very slow, so can cause stuttering

[Moldy]

It's the game.

 

Also, the 970 has 4GBs of VRAM, not 3.5GB.

Have you been away the last week?Because the 970 3.5gb scandal has been everywhere.

[Lewellyn]

InB4 Benchmark Fallacy! (I'm posting this because someone is bound to say something that means nothing and is completely redundant)

 

[Lewellyn]

It can be hard to tell whether or not the card is not using more than 3.5 because it is prioritizing or because the game doesn't need it.