Majormonologue Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 I have enough money to upgrade my graphics cards and I am between the EVGA GTx 1060 3GB or the 1050 ti 4GB, I would like to be able to run skyrim with an enb with 2k textures and grass mods no 4k textures or anything super fancy, I have a Intel Xeon W3530 which is comparable to an i7 930 so nothing good but I am confident that both cards will work in my machine. But right now I only have a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 with only half a gig of ram.
ymf331 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 (edited) edit: redacted. either one will run skyrim with 2k textures. Edited June 1, 2017 by ymf331
ymf331 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 i actually looked at the specs and nope, the 1060 had faster clock speeds, better memory, and more cuda cores. sorry 'bout that.
Majormonologue Posted June 1, 2017 Author Posted June 1, 2017 thats what I was sure of, by the way I'm on 1080p, should have specified that
ymf331 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 i don't really get why you're asking i guess... oldrim will have certain limitations in terms of memory usage anyway, so i'd think that the difference in memory would be a complete nonissue in that regard.
Majormonologue Posted June 1, 2017 Author Posted June 1, 2017 that is what I wasn't sure about, if 3gb was enough
Novem99 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 I wouldn't go below 4GB VRAM. When using ENB + HD textures you will hit very quick the 3GB.
ymf331 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 (edited) the most you can use is 4064mib, and some of your ram would be utilized as well. even on a 1 gig video card i still wind up plugging 4064 in to my enblocal.ini. it's a directx9 limitation. the way i understand it, having extra doesn't contribute in any way to enhanced performance. correct me if i'm wrong here. Edited June 1, 2017 by ymf331
Novem99 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 the most you can use is 4064mib, ...it's a directx9 limitation. the way i understand it, having extra doesn't contribute in any way to enhanced performance. correct me if i'm wrong here. That's the case when playing Oldrim on Windows 10. But when playing Oldrim on Windows 7 or the Special Edition on Windows 10 you can use as much VRAM as you have.
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