Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:01 pm
So... as tempting as it was to install STEP, I'm feeling kind of hungry so I'll try again later. Looks like a good set of mods to install though.
Instead, I just took my current configuration, 6048x1200 and forced 8X MSAA then ran around Whiterun City, outside Whiterun, and Solitude. Hardly scientific, I know, but the numbers were pretty consistent at about 2800-2900MG of VRAM used according to GPU-Z. (And FWIW, 50-90 FPS depending on what I was looking at)
For the record, either Bethesda did something or AMD did something with their drivers, frame rates and feel is consistently higher/smoother than the last time I played.
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I ran around again with NO AA and 16xSSAA. Small 100MB difference, which is kind of weird even though I could tell AA was working/not working. Frame rates at 16xSSAA were surprisingly good too.
edit: so I may be wrong about not needing all that VRAM. However, I don't have a < 3GB card to test against to see if there's a noticeable loss in performance.
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