Is 2gb vram enough to max out gta 5

[Jesse_E]

Hi i'm about to buy a GTX 960 2gb but everywhere where I look on gameplay videos I see people with an GTX 960 putting everything on very high yet the textures only on normal to keep it under the vram limit. But is this even necessary? Because some people say just turn off sugested limit and you will be fine, but I want to be sure

 

[thrillseeker75]

Short answer - No

Textures are dependent on ram not vram, so if you have > 8gb of ram you can max out the texture setting.

Post effects: example particles are cpu dependent but also reliant on your gpu.

All other settings are dependent on vram.

I have a platinum matrix gtx980 4GB and with everything on max the entire 4gb is saturated.

The gtx960 is a mid level card hence you should keep your settings to a medium-high level.

I suggest you turn off anti-aliasing and MSAA settings you which save you a lot of vram so you can bump up other settings

 

[Jesse_E]

Short answer - No

Textures are dependent on ram not vram, so if you have > 8gb of ram you can max out the texture setting.

Post effects: example particles are cpu dependent but also reliant on your gpu.

All other settings are dependent on vram.

I have a platinum matrix gtx980 4GB and with everything on max the entire 4gb is saturated.

The gtx960 is a mid level card hence you should keep your settings to a medium-high level.

I suggest you turn off anti-aliasing and MSAA settings you which save you a lot of vram so you can bump up other settings

I had these settings in mind FXAA on MSAA off and all the settings turned to very high. because I hear alot of people saying it should be just fine (also I want to have a playable fps around 40-60fps)

 

[bystander]

While you can turn up the Textures and the game will run, perhaps even with reasonable FPS, but you'll see stuttering if you pass your VRAM limit. Texture settings does increase how much VRAM is needed to hold them in VRAM for usage when rendering. If you don't have enough VRAM, it gets put in RAM and swapped back to the VRAM as needed, but the process of swapping locations causes some stuttering.