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Was in the same boat. When everyone was swearing up and down about the 3070 I just kept seeing that 8gb. No way. Never go down on an upgrade.I made a point not to upgrade my 1080ti until I could get a videocard with more VRAM, the 3080 12GB barely qualified for that, but I probably should have held out for a 16gb model.
Agreed. This port was poorly done.
As the port does have issues. It does run fine on a lot of higher end system. Usually the people who can’t run it was running a lower end pc’s.
Most steam reviews that I read on release day were crashing issues. Not to mention that ridiculous shader compile time.
Yeah. It's a console port, both the xbox-x and ps5 have 16Gb of memory. They have just a single shared memory for the OS operations and graphics operations. The game on consoles likely uses 1Gb for the engine and 14Gb or so for graphics. Poorly port you game = runs ok on pc's with 14gb or more graphics memory, but has issues with 8Gb or 12Gb vRam cards. Meanwhile properly ported games play just fine on those same cards.
Props to them for getting out while they could and not putting up with Nvidia's bullshit.
What EVGA Video card ever had more vRam than competitors? I don't remember any.
Could you if you are ready to double it by having the same bus, same amount of ram chips, but each of them with a larger amount available ?
Back in the day EVGA use to have video cards with more memory than what Nvidia reference was. They stopped doing it when Nvidia put their foot down. But, it use to happen quite a bit.
There are too many games now to say its an unoptimized game. Too many new games are showing you need more than 8GB.
Yeah, but I don't have to lower settings on my 6800xt that I got for less
The 8gb is more of a hinderance than it should be. It's not so much the 3070 is bad, it's that people played up $600+ ones as such an amazing buy.Yeah, but I don't have to lower settings on my 6800xt that I got for less
Yeah I upgraded from a 4GB GTX 980, but since I also upgraded to 4k, I've already hit some VRAM issues (in Witcher 3) with 12GB. At this stage, I think my next card is 24GB or more or bust. I am just not willing to spend $1600+ for it though.I made a point not to upgrade my 1080ti until I could get a videocard with more VRAM, the 3080 12GB barely qualified for that, but I probably should have held out for a 16gb model.
It’s all 900 series and before. Here is one example of a midrange card doubling up on vRAM.
It’s not that complicated. As has been explained to you, simply double the RAM and keep the same number of chips.
Seems to be optimized for PS5 hardware, much less so for low VRam GPUs that Nvidia seems to like to sell. Of course it can be fixed by dumbing it down, cull more, LOD with more objects not being rendered with textures, shaders, compute shaders and so on. Will it look better than the console version, play better? Now releasing a PC version that fails to support lower end hardware is definitely a problem, so yes, the game is unoptimized for PC hardware. Will developers pushing Console graphics at this point then spend just as much time to rework it to make it play on less asset wise GPUs? This game would have played great on a 3070 if it was 16gb and so on. Publishers may just wait on releasing games that push console graphics on the PC where the majority of the PCs used for gamings will just run it poorly or just look like crap when played, why even bother making another game for the lowest denominator.
We have to see how the developers patch this game over time, get better at PC specific paths etc. Maybe get some help from Nvidia as well.
As someone who has played it on PC and the PS5. The PC is hands down that much better looking that it's not even close. I have never have trusted Digital Foundry after a couple of shady things they did in regards to reviews etc. But the PS5 is nowhere near as good as the PC version.
I would argue there are more games out that are showing that you absolutely don't need 12-16GB VRAM to have a stellar looking game that also performs great (God of War, Spider Man, Tale: Requiem etc.), you also don't need to max all settings all the time, especially at 4K or 1440P UW, this is part of the problem / reason why they'll continue to sell more expensive hardware (people thinking they need 100+ FPS and Maximum settings to have a great experience, just another form of FOMO). TLoU is a bad port in it's current form and shouldn't be used as any type of indicator, just as Arkham Knight was when it first launched. Ultra is for screenshots, High is for good looking gameplay, High/Medium is also good looking with more of an emphasis on performance imo.
But but... My max settings that have to be zoomed in 300 percent on a screenshot to see vs high and ultra mixed!
