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Shadow of Mordor - 4500mb VRAM Usage 1080p?

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Hey guys, I've never heard of SOM going over 3500mb on a 1080p display. When I benchmarked my SOM, it went all the way up to 4500mb+ on max settings! Is there a reason for this?

 

P.S. I have motion lag disabled. 

 

From MSI Afterburner or from in-game VRAM indicator?  Cos that's inaccurate.  Some games like GTA V show you X number that will be "reserved" by the game, not actual VRAM being used.  Reserved VRAM becomes unavailable for other programs.  SOM does use quite a bit of VRAM though, are you rendering at 100%?  You might have accidentally set the in-game DSR above that and you could be rendering at a higher res and scaling down (works like SSAA).

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Hey guys, I've never heard of SOM going over 3500mb on a 1080p display. When I benchmarked my SOM, it went all the way up to 4500mb+ on max settings! Is there a reason for this?

 

P.S. I have motion lag disabled. 

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Textures,thats why

 

Videos I've watched of it being used as a benchmark said that it never exceeded 3500 at 1080p even with the HD texture pack so I'm really confused.

 

I have an EVGA 980 Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0+ so it still isn't using all my VRAM but this is alarming. 

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Hey guys, I've never heard of SOM going over 3500mb on a 1080p display. When I benchmarked my SOM, it went all the way up to 4500mb+ on max settings! Is there a reason for this?

 

P.S. I have motion lag disabled. 

 

Turn off ultra textures

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Hey guys, I've never heard of SOM going over 3500mb on a 1080p display. When I benchmarked my SOM, it went all the way up to 4500mb+ on max settings! Is there a reason for this?

 

P.S. I have motion lag disabled. 

 

From MSI Afterburner or from in-game VRAM indicator?  Cos that's inaccurate.  Some games like GTA V show you X number that will be "reserved" by the game, not actual VRAM being used.  Reserved VRAM becomes unavailable for other programs.  SOM does use quite a bit of VRAM though, are you rendering at 100%?  You might have accidentally set the in-game DSR above that and you could be rendering at a higher res and scaling down (works like SSAA).

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From MSI Afterburner or from in-game VRAM indicator? Cos that's inaccurate. Some games like GTA V show you X number that will be "reserved" by the game, not actual VRAM being used. Reserved VRAM becomes unavailable for other programs. SOM does use quite a bit of VRAM though, are you rendering at 100%? You might have accidentally set the in-game DSR above that and you could be rendering at a higher res and scaling down (works like SSAA).

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Ya, the EVGA Precision X was giving me wrong readings, in-game it uses 3500mb. Thanks!

Guide to GTX 900 Series: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/457526-nvidia-900-series-basic-performance-guide/

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HD textures use this.

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