High VRAM usage

[Exzious]

I recently updated from a 980 to a 1070Ti and from a 1080p 60hz monitor to a 1440p 165hz and every single game that i have tried except for Overwatch is maxing out my GPU (Destiny 2, House Flipper for instance).

Should I have gone for a 1080 instead or is there something wrong with the card? Or should I upgrade to SLi 1070Ti's further down the line?

[Sir Asvald]

What are your system specs? Your GPU should be 99-100% usage..

[Exzious]

Oh, right:

I5 8600K CoffeLake

Z370 MSI Tomoahawk mobo

MSI GTX 1070Ti

Cooler Master V850 PSU

Hydro 115i PRO

Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz 16GB

[Phas3r]

"High vram usage" is possible if you try playing your games at ultra settings with MSAA cranked up and such.

No need to worry about "high vram usage" as long as the game runs fine. A 1080 has equally 8GB vram, if you really run out of vram which is hard to believe but then you could lower the ingame settings or buy a 1080 Ti which has 11GB of vram.

[Exzious]

For House Flipper, one of the games maxing my GPU, the recommended system requirements are i5 8400 core, GTX 970 and 8GB ram... Still puzzling to me.

[Phas3r]

Your topic says "high VRAM usage" , now you are talking about RAM.

Where do you see that you are running out of VRAM or system RAM? 

 

It's surely possible your GPU is running at 99% load, if you have insanely high fps you can use V-Sync.

[Exzious]

I'm using the Task manager to see how much I am using and for OW I am using 50-65% of the GPU with V-sync off and still only getting 60-70 FPS during gameplay.

And yes, I am talking about ram because what the vram can't handle, it peddles over to the ram, although not much, it is a bit.