Originally posted by: Auric
The FPS thing is a bit of a red herring. As with system RAM, VRAM capacity does not increase performance but rather simply having 'nuff prevents performance degradation from cascading paging. Major titles increasingly require more and as said some prevent a bad user-experience by limiting the highest quality modes to adequate hardware (sufficient VRAM capacity). I would definitely go for 512 in this class of card. Indeed, 1024 + 512 is prolly preferable to 2048 + 256. At least the system capacity can always be increased, in contrast to the viddy card which would require replacing.
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: Auric
The FPS thing is a bit of a red herring. As with system RAM, VRAM capacity does not increase performance but rather simply having 'nuff prevents performance degradation from cascading paging. Major titles increasingly require more and as said some prevent a bad user-experience by limiting the highest quality modes to adequate hardware (sufficient VRAM capacity). I would definitely go for 512 in this class of card. Indeed, 1024 + 512 is prolly preferable to 2048 + 256. At least the system capacity can always be increased, in contrast to the viddy card which would require replacing.
what are you referring to [in bold]?
Originally posted by: Summitdrinker
question for you guys,
when I play UT 2004 at 1600x1200 max game setting and max card setting except AA is off, I get a lttle jerking the first minute to a minute and half, after that the game runs smooth and fast enough, this in death match with 32 bots, not on the net
so what is the limiting facture causing the jerking/shutturing? is it lack of Vram or main system ram?
system specs:
P4 2.8, not overclocked
visiontek x1950 pro 256 Mb, not overclocked
1024 Mb main ram
WIN XP home SP2
Originally posted by: Summitdrinker
so how can overclock my CPU? I heard once that I could do a BIOS change from a 3 party, but it is risky
well I lowered the card settings some, it helped, I then maxed the card out with AA max, it made it worse, I guess i could overclock the card and see if that helps, but I want the card to last, I don't want a burned out card 2 months from now
I am not worried about this all as for my game play, it's not that bad and and still is very playable even with AA maxed in most maps, just wondering were my bottle neck is. I really don't have to play the game all maxed out anyhow