Weird driver fixes with GTX 970.

[User3335]

Today I was playing Batman AK and I was using more that 3.5gb VRAM and nothing happened have any other GTX 970 users noticed this?

 

[hdmark]

you mean nothing happened like it continued to run fine?

the 970's have 4gb of ram, its just 3.5gb of fast ram and .5 gb of a slower ram (I believe). so you can still go to 4, itll just be a bit slower

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Can you clarify what your question is?

Nothing happened in regards to what, the metric of using more than 3.5 GB of your video card's memory?

NVidia has very good DX 11 drivers and I suspect that whatever you may have been expecting is handled quietly and cleanly by the drivers.

 

[User3335]

Yeah man I know I'm freaked out but maybe it's getting slower but I can't notice it?? How slower can it get?

 

[hdmark]

trolling?

if its running fine theres no problem?

 

[User3335]

Well I ain't trolling but idk

 

[hdmark]

then im confused... its going past 3.5 gb but you aren't noticing any issues? the 970 has 4 gb ...

were you thinking it only had 3.5 gb so it going past was a glitch?

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

If you run into a situation where the NVidia drivers do not gracefully handle the 3.5 & 0.5 GB memory segmentation, your framerate will tank and you will notice the performance drop as clearly as the nose on your face. Anything else you are seeing is psychological or the result of some other system metric.

If you're that concerned, perhaps you should be doing some benchmarking so you remove yourself as the deciding factor as to whether or not it "seems" slower. The human brain and sensory system is hardly calibrated to measure frames per second accurately, anymore than your finger can accurately determine tire pressure by pressing on the sidewall of a tire. 🙂