low texture quality?

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KirasiN91 wrote:

Fetid pool with shadows:
High=27 fps
Medium=35 fps
Off=60 fps

I did the same thing, so that I could show my buddy what it looks like on mine versus his on the same settings. He damn near offered to buy me a computer after this.

High=3
Medium=5
Off=6

Honestly, I was impressed by those numbers

In my experience, texture quality won't affect FPS "that" much unless you have a low amount of video RAM available, or using an IGP that uses system RAM as video RAM.

I can't recall for sure, but I would imagine Medium textures to run fine on 256MB of video memory. If you want to know exact numbers on how much video memory is in-use by any game; MSI Afterburner has a nice on-screen display module that shows it.

I've seen only a few games actually pass 512MB of video memory usage. 1GB of video memory should be plenty (unless running at crazy resolutions; 1080p+ is "crazy" :p). In my experience, hitting the video memory cap will drop FPS, but keep it consistent (if you had 60 FPS consistently, you'd go to 30 FPS, and stay around 30FPS). Only way to really know is via a memory monitoring tool, such as MSI Afterburner, or even GPU-Z.