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Severe loss of FPS when calling GSX in P3D v4.5 + Hotfix 1
Farlis:
Well in my case updating the GPU is out of the question. I just bought the 1660TI last month. I would have gone for the 1080TI but it is not available anymore. I settled for a medium card because I don't use 4K resolutions and from the tests I read it was said it was the best card one could get if one is staying at FullHD. Everything above it would be just shelling out money for headroom that is never going to be used at resolutions lower than 4K
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Farlis on August 02, 2019, 03:16:46 pm ---I would have gone for the 1080TI but it is not available anymore
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The new Radeon VII has roughly the same performance, with 16GB of VRAM, and it's a 2019 card.
--- Quote ---I settled for a medium card because I don't use 4K resolutions and from the tests I read it was said it was the best card one could get if one is staying at FullHD. Everything above it would be just shelling out money for headroom that is never going to be used at resolutions lower than 4K
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It's not clear from your message if you *do* fps issues or not when using GSX, like the OP. If you do, I already listed all the various things that can affect VRAM consumption and fps. It's not entirely true lots of VRAM is only required for 4K resolution. It depends on your settings as well.
For example, some of the higher antialiasing modes renders internally at much higher resolution of the one actually in use, thus consuming high amounts of VRAM even in Full HD.
Farlis:
"The new Radeon VII has roughly the same performance, with 16GB of VRAM, and it's a 2019 card."
I will not spend more money on a GPU than for the combination of a Motherboard and a CPU.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Farlis on August 02, 2019, 08:31:14 pm ---I will not spend more money on a GPU than for the combination of a Motherboard and a CPU.
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You don't have to change the motherboard, just to get a new video card. And if you don't, then just tone down your settings. That's why settings are for.
Farlis:
I just thought I should give a little update on the situation.
I never quite got around to solving the problem, when my old Quadcore CPU solved the problem for me by dying from years of prolonged overclocking.
So I had to bite the bullet and update Mainboard, CPU (A Ryzen 7 3700x this time) and RAM, since my old hardware was not upgradable with current components any more.
Now the performance problems when calling GSX in certain highmemory situations are gone. So in this case it was not the GPU or the lack of VRAM, but simply my old CPU reaching its limits.
So maybe you might want to consider adding a minimum CPU specification in the System Requirements for GSX?
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