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Is 2gb Enough VRAM?

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If you have it......Try it..... Duh'

you may need to lower some settings but should be fine.

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Hey guys, 

 

i recently got a EVGA gtx 960 ftw as a present. One problem though, it's only a 2gb card. I'm looking to play need for speed most wanted 2012, forza 6, forza horizon 3, mine craft, and maybe just a small bit of crisis 3, just a bit though. Is 2gb enough for these games, and if not, what should I do, I don't want to tell the guy that I sold the card. 

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1 minute ago, Arty said:

If you have it......Try it..... Duh'

you may need to lower some settings but should be fine.

Yea, I just didn't get to try it. I'm out  of the country atm and the guy just told me he bought me this card. I just wanted to know before I got home 

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21 minutes ago, DragonSlayer 159 said:

Hey guys, 

 

i recently got a EVGA gtx 960 ftw as a present. One problem though, it's only a 2gb card. I'm looking to play need for speed most wanted 2012, forza 6, forza horizon 3, mine craft, and maybe just a small bit of crisis 3, just a bit though. Is 2gb enough for these games, and if not, what should I do, I don't want to tell the guy that I sold the card. 

try it.

it should work though.

 

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It should be just fine. The GPU itself isn't really fast enough to utilize any more ram. Even with the 4 gig version you wouldn't be getting much more difference in performance. Especially for the games you play, you should be fine, as they don't go too hard on your system.

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Forza is going to suffer. I wasn't happy with the performance on a 680

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