cheebamaster Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Thinking about getting the new Nvidia Geforce Titan video card that has 6gb of Vram. I'm currently on a 2560x1440 display with a gtx 690 (2gb effective vram) and it easily will max out my vram on this display wiht texture pack combiner and 0 mods. I know that skyrim can handle 4gb vram but can it handle 6? Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyroknight Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Skyrim at it's heart is still a x86 application. It will only utilize 4 GB of any avaliable RAM, even if Windows is x64. Now, I'm not sure whether the same limit applies to VRAM or not, but judging from various threads on Tom's Hardware about the matter, it seems the max VRAM avaliable to a 32-bit process is ~3-3.6 GB. It would seem to me that although the Titan looks like a fantastic card, the extra RAM is of no use to Skyrim for the simple fact that Skyrim's engine does not take advantage of that extra RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheebamaster Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Thanks for the reply, If anyone else has knowledge on this feel free to chip in! Also, Does anyone else play on 2560x1440 display with tons of mods? Can you comment on your fps/vram usage? I'm a bit worried that I'll max out 4 gigs easy on this resolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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