Sharky54 said:
Also while were on this. Can anyone tell me how important video ram is? Because I remember someone saying I wouldn't be able to run crysis at full settings. Or stalker clear sky. Crysis I have at High settings across the board, and i get 30-40 fps. Now clear sky it says needs like 512 mb. and all my other stuff not only meet it, but pass it. How can it be I cannot run that game at full? What would I need to do to be able to? |
1GB is plenty for the GTS 250. Even if you had 2GB your Crysis framerate would be limited by the GPU, not by VRAM. Getting more normal RAM would not help either. The only way to increase framerates would be a better GPU (since your CPU, RAM and VRAM are all plenty). There's actually some argument that the GTS 250 doesn't even benefit from 1GB and 512MB would be enough.
VRAM is NOT that important; GPU is. It's a marketing ploy to try and get consumers to think more VRAM equals faster, so they can sell really low-end cards with 4GB of VRAM and people will think they're good.
I've done a little VRAM chart, so you know how much is enough to get the most out of the GPU:
HD43xx/54xx/GT210/9400/9500: 256MB
HD45xx/46xx/4850/55xx/56xx/GT220/GT240/9600/9800 GT: 512MB
9800GTX/GTX+/GTS 250/HD5750: borderline 512MB/1GB
4870/4890/5770/5850/GTX 260/275/285: 1GB
4850 X2/4870 X2/5870/GTX 295: 2GB
5970: borderline 2GB/4GB
