Can Skyrim run 6gb Vram?

[cheebamaster]

Just ordered the Titan card. I'm on 2560x1440 display with a TON of mods. I currently have a 690gtx and it is completely maxed out without very much in terms of mods (texture pack + resolution max's it)

I'm wondering if Skyrim can do 6gb ram or if it's limited to 4gb.

Answer appreciated

 

[cooldudesubho]

OP don't mind bigmack.He is just jelly cos his 7970 is now outdated.And you have the money to buy 2 tiitans.Which will smoke his system all day.lol

 

[bigshootr8]

I don't think he is. I mean he can be zealous towards AMD but no I wouldn't say he's jealous. And 1 Titan card would just demolish skyrim no real need for 2 Titan cards not unless you plan on powering a ton of screens+3D or some hardcore rendering.

 

[aleksanderdev]

So from what I gather from that combiner of mods is that it utilizes mods a bit more efficiently then throwing everything you can at it just to throw everything you can at it.

Not really.

If you have 2 texture packs both for the same thing objects items etc, and both got some good and bad textures.
The combiner mod will take the best textures of both of theme and combine theme.

Now the Combiner dos this with 60 mods.
Without this mod you would only be able to use 1 of the packs as the first installed pack will be overwritten by the last. So no merging thus only textures from 1 pack.

Note that what textures are rated as good an bad are based on 3 peoples personal taste and opinion with this combiner.
Thats why i did it all manually, comparing each tex mesh file to all the other mods.

 

[aleksanderdev]

I'm not saying that using mods is bad I'm just saying using mods for the sake of using mods and not really optimizing what you are doing can of course drain your resources so having something like a mod combiner is logical.

read the above post. The mod combiner dos not in any way lower/optimize the vram usage.

 

[aleksanderdev]

I don't think he is. I mean he can be zealous towards AMD but no I wouldn't say he's jealous. And 1 Titan card would just demolish skyrim no real need for 2 Titan cards not unless you plan on powering a ton of screens+3D.

I will test skyrim with 1 Titan first and see if it rly dos demolish my skyrim.
I think medium to hige settings will give playable fps with titan

 

[bigshootr8]

I think you can manage to get beyond medium and high settings with a Titan card.

Also, I would go and say that by the combiner choosing the best texture you are limiting the bloat you would get by just installing a ton of mods/addons which I'm sure reduces the amount of resources your system uses just because its not trying to run a million texture mods that are doing the same thing. I should re define what I'm saying. I'm saying it has the potential to based on what you are doing.

 

[aleksanderdev]

The game dos not load the other textures at all.
Its only the "winning texture mod" that gets loaded into the game.
If you got 100 different grass mod textures installed only the last will be loaded.
So no it has no impact.
Well it remains to be seen, If it gose acording to the plan ill get my Titan this friday 😀

 

[Fieldsweeper]

I'm sure you could if you dropped the kitchen sink worth of mods sure. The game isn't ram limited and comes with the full advertised ram amount unlike the 690 which advertises at 4 gigabytes but is really at 2.

it is 4GB total, DUH, its two gpu's on one card so its like to 660 or 670 GPUS running in SLI mode. a SINGLE physical gtx 690 is actually an SLI dual gpu card. which is why the titan has better everything, including PER GPU performance and lots of ram. qual sli titan is 24GB of vram, 4 gpus and WAY more cuda cores / FLOPS

 

[ihog]

I'm sure you could if you dropped the kitchen sink worth of mods sure. The game isn't ram limited and comes with the full advertised ram amount unlike the 690 which advertises at 4 gigabytes but is really at 2.

it is 4GB total, DUH, its two gpu's on one card so its like to 660 or 670 GPUS running in SLI mode. a SINGLE physical gtx 690 is actually an SLI dual gpu card. which is why the titan has better everything, including PER GPU performance and lots of ram. qual sli titan is 24GB of vram, 4 gpus and WAY more cuda cores / FLOPS

You must be confused, because SLI doesn't combine the VRAM of the GPUs. That's why the 690 has only 2 GB of VRAM, even though it is advertised as 4 GB. Dirty trick by nVidia if you ask me.

 

[DarkSable]

... the stupidity in this thread is incredible. However, I'm going to leave it at this:
Two titans does not give you 12GB of VRAM. 4 titans does not give you 24GB of VRAM. You could have two dozen titans in SLI, and you would STILL have only 6GB of VRAM.

So to the person who's buying two titans: Return one - it won't give you any benefit towards mods, and you shouldn't need two titans for skyrim on three 1080p screens.

To the poster (EDIT: two posts) above me, you're just... no. Do a tiny bit of research into SLI - the very first thing you learn is that VRAM DOES NOT STACK. That means that the 690, with it's "4GB" of VRAM, really only has 2GB. Each chip has 2GB, but because they're working in SLI, that means that the data has to be mirrored for each chip... i.e. you have 2GB of VRAM, NOT 4GB.

 

[bigshootr8]

Such a old topic Dark 😛 Yea I'm with you a single titan is more then enough for just about everyone.

 

[DarkSable]

... sorry. I do wish the news feed would let you know if it were an actual reply or a necro. 😛

 

[bigshootr8]

When they made the forums change they did a pretty poor job at keeping posts up to date I had posts that were super old I had to push them off my feed by opening a good 20-30 threads was awful.

 

[tential]

I'm pretty sure Skyrim with the correct mods can bring any graphics card to it's knees. Seems like some people here saying "omg it's a waste!" haven't seen Skyrim running at 5-15 FPS on GTX 680's or 7970s because of extremely detailed mods.

Seems like some people are just going off of benchmarks and simple mods. There certainly are benefits to using a Titan in a highly modded Skyrim to bring Skyrim to a graphics level 2-3 times more detailed than when they originally started.

 

[bigshootr8]

Right but when you are looking at cards and you are comparing a 690 to a Titan it just makes all the sense in the world why you would want the Titan over the 690. And skyrim isn't all that demanding as a whole anyway. It can be as system intense as you want to make it however there is no need.

 

[nikoli707]

nexus forums will confirm that skyrim will use 6gb vram maxed out mods running across 3 1440p monitors or a single 4k monitor, CTD's is the result once pushed over the edge. a single titan does indeed run a single 4k monitor with slightly below full max STEP mod installation, backing off on some of the heaviest vram mods. horsepower is not the issue with skyrim, vram is. no reports on triple 4k monitors yet as nobody has the setup yet but many assume 2 titans will do fine as long as the vram cap isn't pushed.

 

[bigshootr8]

yea that sounds fine the gentlemen who started the post is running at 2560x1440 which is fine 3 screens I take it as you were going into with the nexus post @Nikoli. And I think it'll be quite some time before 4k screens take over given there price and even then I still think they will be a niche product given how 1080p seems to be the norm and 1440p/1600p is on the high end of the spectrum.

 

[aleksanderdev]

I'm playing skyrim on 5760x1080 and I am very gla'd i got my 2 titans. With 1 Titan i could not run with the settings I wanted.

Enb series with a good modificator like SKYRIM ENHANCED SHADERS FX - ENB makes the game very demanding. Adding a whole new shadow system, Ambient occulasion, SSAO, Direct Lighting, bloom, edge AA, AF Etc.
This ontop of already demanding modded skyrim with 4k textures, lighting mods, climate mods, extended lod detail + +
The game is certainly demanding. Atleast my 2 titans are at a 95-99% usage along with my cpu at the same.

The enb comes with 3 different SSAO's and I'm using the lightest version. And medium to ultra ini tweaked settings.
Higest Vram I'v messured is 5,6GB usage.

 

[bigshootr8]

However thought consider what anti aliasing that you are using though. SSAO is very very very very demanding so I would go as far to say that if you were to change that to another form of anti aliasing then you would see your ram usage go much further down.

Look at Metro Last light why on earth would even the top end cards only be able to do 2x SSAO I think that just goes to show what's going on there. Furthermore I'm not a expert on all the different forms of aliasing however people seem to be really down on SSAO they don't like the method they don't like how demanding it is on hardware it just doesn't make much sense in reality to use. And based on how hard you were really pushing your hardware you were throwing the kitchen sink at your cards to get them to that point.

 

[Mahisse]

However thought consider what anti aliasing that you are using though. SSAO is very very very very demanding so I would go as far to say that if you were to change that to another form of anti aliasing then you would see your ram usage go much further down.

Look at Metro Last light why on earth would even the top end cards only be able to do 2x SSAO I think that just goes to show what's going on there. Furthermore I'm not a expert on all the different forms of aliasing however people seem to be really down on SSAO they don't like the method they don't like how demanding it is on hardware it just doesn't make much sense in reality to use. And based on how hard you were really pushing your hardware you were throwing the kitchen sink at your cards to get them to that point.

Agree 100%. It was the same thing I was thinking scrolling down this thread.