Video Memory settings (CUP or GPU??)

[meade95 0]

Within A2/CO... You have your video options -

One of those is "Video Memory" settings. What is the best advice for this setting? Is it more CPU related? Or is it more related to your GPU (graphics video card).

How is it best to determine where you should have this set, from Low, normal, High, etc?

Thanks

[kklownboy 43]

Within A2/CO... You have your video options -

One of those is "Video Memory" settings. What is the best advice for this setting? Is it more CPU related? Or is it more related to your GPU (graphics video card).

How is it best to determine where you should have this set, from Low, normal, High, etc?

Thanks

hmmm, "video" hmmm VideoCards...hmmm

I would say GPU...

[meade95 0]

Yeah - I more than suspected that (the GPU part) - Bad wording within my question -

My more direct question would be, at what GPU level should one place their "video memory" setting on high or very high? If you have 512 MB? 1028 MB? Processor speed?

Does BIS have any guidelines of this -I've searched some and not found much directly related to video memory settings -

[Laqueesha 474]

I'd like to know exactly what this option does also.

[Flubadoo 10]

I'd like to know exactly what this option does also.

From what I can tell, it does almost nothing.

I ran a benchmark with it on high and very high.

The visual quality was barely different. I needed to screencap and stare at the two picture comparisons for a few seconds until i noticed changes.

It also seems to have almost (0.2-0.4) no fps impact.

[Rich_R 1087]

If you search the forums many people swear by leaving the setting at default, but like the previous poster I've not experienced any consistent gains or losses in performance by changing this option.

[meade95 0]

It would be nice to have a thread where everyone listed their major in game settings as well as what they have for their Video Card settings (card itself). Like follows - Just to get an idea -

Mine are the following...

In game settings -

Video Memory = High

Terrain Detail = normal / high (trying both)

Object Detail = normal / high

View Distance = 1200

Anisoropic = Normal

Antialiasing Noraml / high

Now For my GTX 460 itsef - Its settings (main ones)

Anistropric = App Controlled

Antialiasing (gamma correction) = On

Antialiasing mode = App Controlled

Max Pre-Rendered Frames = 3 (just bumped it to 4, to see if this helps at all ??)

Texture filtering / anistoropic sample = Off

Teture filtering / neg lod bias = Allow

Threaded Optimization = Off

Triple Buffering = On

Vertical Sync = Force Off

Edited December 17, 2010 by meade95

[=wfl= sgt bilko 10]

In Nvidia "3D Application control" set "Multi-display/mixed-GPU

acceleration" to: "Single display performance mode"

(no matter how many monitors or gfx-cards you have, unless your actually spanning fullscreen game over more than one display).

Set it on generic level and let all applications/game use same as default.

[pauliesss 2]

meade95: can I ask you why you have Threaded Optimization = Off ? Does it help ? I thought that ON will give you better performance.

[dale0404 5]

From another thread:

I have a 460GTX and I run everything on very high apart from AA (normal) and PP (disabled).

Screen resolution is at 100%. Would it be better to turn up the AA or leave it at it is and increase the screen resolution?

I know I could try it for myself but unfortunately I am at work:(.

Specs are:

I5 750 @ 2.66

Nvidia 460GTX 1GB

4 GB RAM 1333khz

Win7 32bit.

Cheers

Dale

[Nutlink 10]

I tried default and very high, and I get about 4 fps more at very high for some reason. I don't understand it, and to be honest it's not noticeable even in heavy firefights, but when standing still, no matter where, it affects my fps.

[Flubadoo 10]

Well how much VRAM is normal? 1GB?

[jumpinghubert 49]

I tried default and very high, and I get about 4 fps more at very high for some reason..

same experience with a GTX 280 (1024MB).

[max power 21]

Greater video memory allows allows for better performance with large texture sizes and large numbers of textures. What the setting does, I'm not certain. It must play a role in optimizing which mip maps the vga displays.

[meade95 0]

Did some more playtesting - I definitely getting better FPS with Video Memory set to VERY HIGH (over high).

On just "high" I get around 56 FPS on the bench mark - With set to Very High I'm constantly above 65 FPS

[PhillyB 10]

it allows the game to use more video memory