Shadow of Mordor needs 6gb Vram to max out textures

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OS: 64-bit: Win 7, Win 8

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 | AMD Radeon HD 7970 with 6gb VRAM

DirectX: Version 11

Network: Broadband Internet connection

Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

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Needs far less than that to easily look/run better than the console version.

Thats some fucked with requirements there. A 7970 with 6GB of VRAM? Didn't they make like 20 of those?

Don't tell that to console fanboys, they think that every console game is equal to PC on Ultra.

An i7? Really?

That's some insane fucking bloat.

how do you even achieve 6 gb VRAM? SLI doesn't double your Vram.

If this trends keeps going with the multiplatfrom games then my I5 3750k + gtx780 3gb VRAM will become outdated pretty quick :(

Bullshit. I'll keep callign bs until i see some benchmarks.

It's still has PS360 versions, and doesn't even look truly next gen, like AC Unity, TW3, Batman, Division, etc.

No way does ultra at 1080p require 6GB of VRAM.

No way does 1080 high require a 3GB card

Unless it's a complete pos port.

lool

The funny part is that this bump in requirements is because of the Xbone/PS4

And I don't think they even made 670's with 6GB of RAM

...WTF?

Ok wait... Didn't a recent game had it's recommended specs aimed at 4k? How do we know that's not the same nonsense?

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

Welcome to optimization in PC multiplats being largely dictated by the generational leap in the console space. Evil Within, Mordor and you can expect more...

The baseline in PC requirements has been raised, as it does at the beginning of every console gen. People called me stupid for saying that optimization in the PC space is fucked up in that other thread, well there you have it lol

Those budget PC threads are going to get more and more suspect as the gen rolls on.

As if they weren't already.

If PC gamer's video is any indication, the game doesn't even have particularly good looking textures to begin with. I have a feeling that all that VRAM is just going to be used to prevent any pop-in, and not because the game uses really high res textures (which it doesn't seem to). That's not the game's main visual problem though: the art style and the world look incredibly drab; I realize they're in Mordor and all, but that doesn't excuse ugly, drab environments.

@deadline-zero0 said:

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

Twice the VRAM going from high to ultra? 0_o

I'm laughing my ass off right now haha a

Only time will tell if those 6GBs translate to an improvement or not.

At least they didn't claim that you'll require 6GB of VRAM and anything less is a no go (Bugthesda).

I bet the console versions will use Medium textures.

Everyone cries when shitty console ports, but when a dev provides some graphics longevity to the game by implementing higher requirements then "it's BS".

Wait and judge.

why?

Disastrous.

Developers need to learn to truly get shit done the right way, before shipping their games in these nonsensical states. Plan out extra development time with the publisher(s) if you must to work out the quirks. Releasing a new Ip in these conditions its practically inflicting damage to the brand the publisher spends millions in marketing to popularize.

Not a good start.

I can't even run this bitch properly on Low settings in my laptop.

No its not. Those 2 versions do not run the textures that require 6gb vram.

Stop thinking that a PC needs to run at ultra to out-do the console counter-parts.

Actually looking on steam there is no mention of 6GB VRAM GPUs for recommended specs.

LOL, enjoy your medium settings, nice to see our hardware get a workout.

Oh really? Yet, Black Flag and Watch Dogs get maxed out at 1080p by my 2GB 760.

Now you're telling me in less than 6 months, with a game that also has PS360 version, and doesn't look any better, it'll no longer do?

Unless the PS4 version is running at 720p, or at medium settings, there's no way they optimized the consoles enough to make my card, and many others, this outdated already.

Then tell in what way can Unity or TW3 work? Do you have any honest idea what 6GB of VRAM even is.

Almost no game uses more than 2gb of video memory yet to be maxed out at 1080p. And you're telling me Shadows of Mordor needs 3 just for high settings? Now imagine what 6GB is even for.

Keep dreaming. It's either a mistake, or just plain bad optmization. I'll eat crow if my 760 doesn't get benchmarked at 1080p ultra 30fps. And i say 30, assuming the consoles are also atthat frame rate.

Another thread was posted for this game's graphical settings, please keep ll discussion in there.

Whoops, sorry, I mixed up the timestamps. Carry on!

Switching from high to ultra textures wont hit our FPS much at all, imo. Just a bit of micro stutter when quickly scrolling the mouse across/camera rotation especially on a high draw distance scene. I'll eat crow with you if it ends up being unplayable or below 30FPS (lol). Until then I laugh at peasants playing this game on their gimped settings.

@deadline-zero0 said:

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

"Note, Ultra only differs from High if the Ultra HD pack is installed".

So basically, its 4K+ Textures rendering in 1080p? So, Super Sampling then?

I can see 3 options here.

1) The game is either badly optimized or built with some future tech upgrade in mind

2) when they list the total of Vram they might Refer to the overall amount of RAM needed for the GPU, which in most cases tends to be twice of the amount of ram on the GPU can pull from (go look up how much it uses, you will find that something like a 670 or 770 has access to 4 gb on the 2 gb models and so on). If they change the calculations like that, it must mean that some change is happening within the way devs calculate specs, maybe due to a new DX? This I doubt however since the pic listed a 570 with 1200 is of Ram.

3) might be a dev copy of a none cleaned up game (unlikely though)

So on the bright side we know that we are in for a gen where Graphics might be pushed a good bit, sadly that would mean that most multiplats would have tu use a low amount of cpu processing since optimization is not a miracle maker. A gen with 1 gb of ram dedicated to cpu inbound -.- forget everything about advanced ai -.-

@clyde46 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

"Note, Ultra only differs from High if the Ultra HD pack is installed".

So basically, its 4K+ Textures rendering in 1080p? So, Super Sampling then?

Seems to be

Lol wut? If its only got 2GB of VRAM, thats all its got...

@clyde46 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

"Note, Ultra only differs from High if the Ultra HD pack is installed".

So basically, its 4K+ Textures rendering in 1080p? So, Super Sampling then?

could be, it is likely that devs can see how soon 4k will arrive for PC, and plan accordingly, to prolong life expectency of the games. and simply downscale for 1080p resolutions.

ITT: PC has the best version.

So you need 3GB to max out the game, and if you're playing at a crazy resolution you get the pack. That makes sense.

men total accesserable ram. if I look at my GPUs they are listed as "2 GB ram dedicated on Card, 4 gb ram overall acceserable. so a good deal of Cards do use some storage elsewhere, althrough that would automatically mean that the second 2 gb it pulls from the system resources would have to be either virtual or through the PCs own ram pool (first option most likely) and mean that the second 2 gb would be slow as freakin dirt).

@clyde46 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

@harry_james_pot: Because the pic is stated for 1080p. Even then, 6Gb for 4k? yeah right. BS

"Note, Ultra only differs from High if the Ultra HD pack is installed".

So basically, its 4K+ Textures rendering in 1080p? So, Super Sampling then?

Yeah, but asking 3GB for ultra is still streaching abit considering all others games are fine with 2gb so far.

Unless it's just hyperbole with requirements, which which is almost always the case wiht every game. So i'm betting on that.

Either that, or the console versions aren't looking too pretty themselves.

Even then, GRID's HD texture pack, or Ryse's 4K requirements only go up to 4GB. Which cards actually have 6GB on them?

6GB Vram ?

@Maddie_Larkin: What in the world does "accesserable" mean...that isn't even a word.

youre good with gtx 670 + 2gb vram but need a 7970 with 6gb?

what about consoles that have about 2gb of vram available (out of the 4,5 available for games) ??

i was considering getting this game DESPITE its past gen visuals

but 6gb vram maybe for 8xmsaa on 4k, maybe

Pretty sure it's wrong

So they recommend either a high end Intel cpu, or a weak AMD CPU for half the price.

Either this is some AMD shenanigans, or these are pretty meaningless recommendations.

Heard it all before. Yet when I fire this up on my pc I'll be playing at 1080p and 60fps if I like . I know how to tune my games for the performance and fidelity I want.

closest translation I can give since I aint a native English speaker and my Geforce os is listed in my native language ;)