Stuttering on Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

[jcup]

Hello, I just recently got the Sapphire R9 280x 3GB VRAM edition and it has been pretty beastly so far. I have taken BF4, Crysis 3, and Tomb Raider all on ultra settings smooth as butter. However, I just got Shadow of Mordor and it says to run on ultra you need at least 6GB VRAM but like anyone would do I tried it anyways. The game runs smoothly. Always above 60fps albeit when I turn fast the game stutters very bad. Like it isn't rendering fast enough. If I go to a high point and render everything in it partially fixes it and I am good to go but soon it will happen again. Is this due to my GPU only having 3GB VRAM or is it something an update can fix?

 

[Cem Goker]

try lowering your settings and turn fast again and see if it does the same thing. hope this helps!

 

[Vynavill]

I'm pinning this on the VRAM. As you've noticed by running it at 60 FPS, 6gb is an overstatement, as 4gb GPUs work fine AFAIK.

GPUs with lower than 4gb VRAM capacities are known to have issues on ultra from what I've read; namely, 3gb cards may stutter in specific high load moments, and 2gb or lower cards can have memory allocation errors, not running the game at all sometimes.

 

[Frag Maniac]

...just recently got the Sapphire R9 280x 3GB...you need at least 6GB VRAM but like anyone would do I tried it anyways. The game runs smoothly. Always above 60fps...

I pretty much have that card, well, same effective chip anyway (Sapphire 7970). It sounds like maybe you turned on Ultra textures but didn't download the HD texture pack.

I can run High textures and everything else max and average about 55 FPS during non combat scenarios in the Udin map, which isn't quite as graphically intense as the Nurn map.

So I have a hard time buying you can average 60 FPS with HD textures set to Ultra, unless all your other settings are compromised somewhat. This is why I thought maybe you didn't actually DL the HD pack, and are really just running High as a result.

At any rate, regardless of settings, fast turns in highly detailed, texture rich games while running 1080p or more take a good amount of frame buffer to do smoothly, and you're pushing your luck having only 3GB to do the buffering.

There's some on faster GPUs getting away with 4GB on Ultra textures though. I would not recommend anything less than a 970 though, and even then you might have noticeable dips if you're turning fast in certain parts of the game with lots of enemies in attack mode.

 

[jcup]

...just recently got the Sapphire R9 280x 3GB...you need at least 6GB VRAM but like anyone would do I tried it anyways. The game runs smoothly. Always above 60fps...

I pretty much have that card, well, same effective chip anyway (Sapphire 7970). It sounds like maybe you turned on Ultra textures but didn't download the HD texture pack.

I can run High textures and everything else max and average about 55 FPS during non combat scenarios in the Udin map, which isn't quite as graphically intense as the Nurn map.

So I have a hard time buying you can average 60 FPS with HD textures set to Ultra, unless all your other settings are compromised somewhat. This is why I thought maybe you didn't actually DL the HD pack, and are really just running High as a result.

At any rate, regardless of settings, fast turns in highly detailed, texture rich games while running 1080p or more take a good amount of frame buffer to do smoothly, and you're pushing your luck having only 3GB to do the buffering.

There's some on faster GPUs getting away with 4GB on Ultra textures though. I would not recommend anything less than a 970 though, and even then you might have noticeable dips if you're turning fast in certain parts of the game with lots of enemies in attack mode.

I wasn't aware I had to download an ultra texture pack to run it. I'll try it and see what happens.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I wasn't aware I had to download an ultra texture pack to run it. I'll try it and see what happens.

Just as I'd suspected, because I know that GPU even on High textures with everything else maxed has a hard time maintaining 60 FPS at 1080p.

Don't expect much from that GPU on Ultra textures. IMO it's a waste of time to DL the HD pack. It's only for very high end cards and there's hardly any difference in visuals anyway between High and Ultra.