x4foundations A heartfelt request to fellow modders. Fix the monstrous step of developers about the graphics card with less than 3 gigabytes.

[DragonZaf]

Hi, everybody.I'm just like you-a fan of the universe x, and indeed all such games.

 

It so happened that I have a video card gtx660 2gb.

This video card still perfectly supports performance in the games of 2018. (well, not that very)

 

So, I bought x4, and it is impossible to play with it!! Not because low fps, no on the contrary, everything is fine.

But because the textures disappear, the menu, everything becomes invisible or filled with low-quality models from LOD.

 

The official response of the developers about this-they say less than 3 gigabytes is not supported.

look at the game, outer space, very few objects nearby, where resources go?Or in the game advanced graphics.

 

In General, as people who more or less knows about graphics cards and hardware, I thought this answer strange! I did a little research.

It turned out that the memory of the video card is not a critical parameter, and that the lack of this memory can not lead to problems of complete absence of textures.

Another source claims that video memory complements the system's RAM, and just about increases the card's capabilities.

In other words, a smaller amount of video card memory will simply give an increased load on the system. (drop in FPS)

And most interesting is THAT NOT ALL GAMES CAN FULLY USE EVEN 2 GB of VRAM in 2018.

 

Generally, I believe, that Egosoft artificial created this problem, deliberately, either mistakenly. It is more likely that NVIDIA is experiencing a decline in interest in mining, bribed Egosoft, so that they raised the minimum system requirements for video cards gamers. Yes, not just so, and that it was critical, we are essentially forced to take a new card.

 

I believe in the talent of modders, especially after mods on Skyrim. And I ask the guys - restore justice, create a patch that will eliminate this stupid restriction or even stupid blackmail by the developers.

 

[arjmaj]

I hope you can understand me (i not speak english so i do my best)

 

In General, as people who more or less knows about graphics cards and hardware, I thought this answer strange! I did a little research.

It turned out that the memory of the video card is not a critical parameter, and that the lack of this memory can not lead to problems of complete absence of textures.

Another source claims that video memory complements the system's RAM, and just about increases the card's capabilities.

 

Im not modder (i have been trying but i don't know how to start with x4) but i can tell that your info is wrong, not to blame you, but your sources.

The fact is (if you hadn't noticed yet), the game lacks of loading screens, and that is where all resources of the Vram goes.

I have the integrated solution from AMD (ryzen 5 2400G) with 16GB of ram, in the bios I configured the "Vram" to 8MB, with this type of GPU (your normal ram used as Vram, when in a dedicated GPU the Vram is what you get with the card) the "Vram" is administrated by the system and assign the Vram needed for the task you are loading, and when i look the task manager is a complete mess, in empty areas is taking up to 2.5GB, and in the more dense areas the "Vram" assigned from the ram is like 4 to 5.

The thing is, when you run out of memory, that type of glictches happen, even crashes (is like run out of RAM and the PC goes very slow, or chrashes the program, or windows take you to the blue death screen), and is inavoidable unless you change settings, for example you can reduce the resolution, lower the textures, lower the LOD, effects, particles, etc. As far as i know, all of these helps more with GPU processing than actual Vram, exept of the quality of textures, these bitches eat ram like a pig.

Try to find a mod that reduces the overall quality of the game, maybe that helps you. If you have the lastest drivers (that GPU is a little bit old), try to rollback the driver to aproximately 1 year after launch of that specific GPU (firsts versions usually are bugged), see if that solves your problem, if that works, make your way up in versions after you hit the problem, roll back one and play.