Middle-earth - Shadow of Mordor's 6GB requierement for Ultra Textures with SLI or Crossfire

[Miguel Monegro]

Well i was reading the requirements of this game and i was impressed with that lol, crossfiring or doing SLI 2 high end cards doubles the memory or at least will increase the perfomance enough to have this feature in Ultra?

 

[Merisimus]

GPU's dont work like that, it wont combine the vram instead it will only use the value of one.

 

[hunter315]

When you SLI you have effective VRAM that is the lowest of the cards that were SLI'd, so if you SLI 2 4GB cards you have 4GB of VRAM, if you SLI a 2GB card and a 4GB card you only have 2 GB of VRAM

 

[Miguel Monegro]

Then having this game with the textures in ultra is god damn expensive xD

 

[bignastyid]

My 4Gb 770s will run it on ultra @ 100fps and it uses all 4gb of vram.

 

[anti-duck]

Crossfire also doesn't work well atall with the game, it is possible to get it working for ~80% scaling, but the menu's flicker badly and are pretty much unuseable.

 

[nikoli707]

this recommended vram is a sign of a poorly optimized game. watchdogs is a great example of a game with stout requirement/recommendations. it has poor graphical performance on high end cards all while not shining on screen. games like crysis 3 or battlefield 4 look much much better on screen while taking less horsepower.

 

[Dracula872100]

Well if you looked around a little you will see there is benchmarks already out there on all ultra using 4 GB of VRAM cards and you will see that it works over around 80 fps average on the benchmark
That is with GTX 970 and 770 4 GB VRAM and I think the 980 will even get higher FPS but as it stands it doesn't require 6 GB VRAM at all

 

[Steelfaith99]

I had the exact same problem with crossfiring two HIS Turbo IceQ X2 R9 280x's. The menu would flicker, fps would drop dramaticly, and lighting would flicker unbearably. When I disable crossfire, it works like a charm on very high settings. I tried to see if it was the game so I benchmarked it with Rome Total War 2, similar problems. I read a thread instructing disabling vsync and limiting fps to 60 or 30 respectively. I have not tried that yet but intend to today.