Do you all want to see something crazy? (Fallout 4 VRAM Usage Data)

[Bavarianberry]

Fallout 4 uses a TEXTURE STEAMING technology based on John Carmack's MEGATEXTURE library (although the 'every pixel is unique' megatexture idea itself is NOT used).

 

Now Megatexture is JUNK, and the idea that the streaming aspect of megatexture automatically 'scales' to the resources available causes ALL the problems seen in FO4 steaming, especially excessive VRAM usage and late loading hi-quality textures.

 

Use the .ini hack to DISABLE texture streaming (for the most part) and force only the best version of any texture to load. This increases initial loading times, but otherwise fixes texrture problems peeps have (and allows me on a ONE GB VRAM card to have the very best textures dispayed AND have the best performance possible with my GPU).

 

 

Patch 1.3 fixes that texture loading issue to an extent. I used the tweak and disabled streaming but even though I have a high end PC for me it ended to some textures being constantly low quality and blurry.

 

The time should be reduced so you don't see it. Disabling it can cause these kinds of problems.

[moosejaw50]

I have more than one TitanX and on GTAV for example it would add up the ram used on each card for total ram usage. So when it showed me 10.5 gb of usage it was actually 5.25 gb. Since the OP only shows one TX in his signature, I don't know what is going on with his big vram usage. I guess I should fire up gpu z and see what I get with reshade and some other visual enhancing mods.

[AceGoober]

It would seem that you are unfamiliar with the Titan X series of graphics cards. Any version of the Titan X has 12GB VRAM.

 

eVGA GTX Titan X Gaming

 

VRAM should not be confused with System RAM, of which, I have 32GB Patriot Viper 2133Mhz CAS 11 installed.

 

In this case it tells you that assuming that what your tool shows as VRAM use means graphics card memory is obviously false, since no gaming card has that much RAM. Not even the Titan X.

 

I recommend researching a bit prior to telling someone they are wrong. Especially someone such as me who is a 28 year plus computer technician. ;)

[kevkiev]

nvm

[AceGoober]

Apparently there was something wrong with the installation of Fallout 4. I ran the latest version of Precision X 16 and it was showing roughly the same amount of VRAM usage as GPUz so I thought the results were good. But, after some digging on the net there were people who were running many more texture mods than I was yet not using as much VRAM as I was. Interesting....

After running through verifying files, checking configs, etc I was still getting the same VRAM usage except this time there were major shadow flaws. Screw it... backed-up my ini files, saves, wiped Fallout 4 completely then reinstalled with every mod I use. Loaded my character and voila! VRAM usage is now between 3.8 and 6GB. Still unsure of what was causing the bloated usage...