I thought it was a Ryse pic, my bad.

But it isn't just those games. Do you remember what happened with WatchDogs and the performance hit when enabling the textures to high/very high?

But all in all, gaming on my 1080p screen it won't be much of a problem.

I remember Watch Dogs, I also remember the mod that with a few tweaks to how texture streaming/lod worked dropped the VRAM requirements significantly with a negligable quality hit. As Ubisoft basically said fuck it just load all textures at their max LOD regardless of how big they are on screen with the Ultra textures mode.

Not much to bitch about when you are sitting on the throne unless there are bad ports. Yes, I'm still alive, just not around much these days lol.

If we have to wait for mods to fix what devs don't do we have problems. Big problems.

Nice to see you dahuman.

I guess it is too much to ask that devs learn from their mistakes...

The 2014 Saxxy Awards are live; will be the "biggest Saxxys yet"

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It’s that time of year again. The time where players of Team Fortress 2 put aside their arbitrary differences for some creative filmmaking brilliance. There are categories for short, action, comedy and drama this year. Videos are already being submitted to the competition, and we’ll have the nominees on Tuesday next week.

For the time being, lets take a look at last year’s best overall winner. The bar is set extremely high.

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Arma 3's Helicopters DLC takes flight on November 4th

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Bohemia Interactive have announced the release date for their second premium DLC, this time adding more helicopters to the game. The “highly detailed” CH-67 Huron and the Mi-290 Taru heavy-lift helicopters are the stars of the show, which will be able to transport cargo, troops, supplies and even light vehicles.

There’s some free content too. Everyone will ten new VR helicopter training stages, as well as one helicopter time trial (four more are available in the DLC).

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Both Nvidia and AMD are preparing for 8K: “for the human eye that resolution is close to perfection”

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4K’s the current buzzword in pretty games. 3840 x 2160. More than 8 million pixels. Twice Four times the resolution of 1080p, it makes the old standard look like you’re playing games on an etch a sketch, not a computer. Right now, graphics card manufacturers are making cards that can pump out that many pixels, monitor makers are making screens them, and game developers are making games that demand them.

4K’s for wusses, I want to know about 8K.

I spoke to AMD and Nvidia to find out what they’re doing to make it happen.

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Welcome to the VRAM apocalypse

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The Evil Within and Shadow of Mordor are both asking for insane amounts of VRAM. 

WTF is going on?

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Far Cry 4 trailer reintroduces Pagan Min with kidnapping, torture and an absurd chase sequence

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I’m not especially interested in Far Cry 4’s dapper antagonist, Pagan Min, and wasn’t planning on posting this trailer that reintroduces him. Ubisoft makes more trailers than I can keep up with, anyway. But then I decided to watch it, and I changed my mind. 

The tiger and elephant attacks certainly look like a good time, but they are topped by a high speed chase involving a quad bike, a plane and a wingsuit. Oh, and of course an explosion. Direct your eyes below for the turned up to 11 silliness.

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Playing With Myself: The Long Dark

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Playing With Myself is a new series where I faff around in a newly launched or Early Access game for under an hour, and you watch me do all of this faffing on the ol' YouTube. Then, if you fancy it, you can take a gander at my written impressions. It's a Let's Play and an impressions piece stiched together like Frankenstein's monster. Also, it has a slightly rude title. Hooray! 

I am being stalked by death, a hunter whose name is mother nature. She’s terrible and inescapable. Where survival games are often filled with supernatural or psychopathic antagonists, The Long Dark pits survivalists against the environment and the completely regular beasts that roam it. 

It’s lonely, gorgeous and infinitely more threatening than a world filled with zombies. 

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Styx: Master of Shadows Releases On October 7th, Gets New ‘Making Of’ Videos

I'm starting to think 2GB of VRAM is going to become obsolete waaaaaaay sooner than what I anticipated.

Anyone who brought a card with less than 3GB of VRAM in the last year and a half was setting themselves up for dissapointment. And anyone buying one today should get 4GB minimum.

Indeed.

Luckily consoles don't have access to the whole 8GB of RAM they have, leaving 1-1.5GB reserved for other system tasks that with time will be optimized and reduced to 0.5-1GB. And then there's the part of that RAM that deals with the CPU info.

And consoles are also able to make more with less RAM as the PS360 have proven.

This gen, it looks like GPU power won't be such a big problem, but VRAM will until cards with at least 8GB start appearing (and to be honest, that could be as soon as next year with AMD's 390X).