A single 4096x4096 R8G8B8 texture takes up 48MB of vram after decompression(on drive, they are stored in a compressed format). Your average model is going to have at least three of those: Albedo, normal and a mask pack or two. You’re looking at roughly 9-12 8bit channels worth of textures per model. At 4096x4096, that’s up to 192MB per model, with 2048x2048 textures, that’s up to 48MB per model. Then, you have to factor in landscape textures, lightmaps, decals, meshes, particle effects, etc. I won’t go into all that, but it takes up a crapload of vram. Not sure if D4 uses similar systems, but there are some things that can help VRAM consumption from getting out of hand like runtime or streaming virtual textures(engines like UE4/5 have them).
Anyways, this is a long-winded way of saying that having a PBR shaded+seamless open world game, with a diverse variety in biomes, gobbles up ram… Oh and texture pooling: You keep a lot fresh of textures in ram to prevent the latency of having to reload them again and then eventually run garbage collection to get rid of assets that haven’t been used after some amount of time. Unused ram/vram is a waste, by the way.
Limit max framerate to 60 and the game will feel much smoother. It is nice to flex a high framerate with VRR, but it eats VRAM like candy. Cap it at 60 and the VRAM usage will take a long time to be maxed out.
Not sure whats going on here, but for the most the game runs well on PC? I have a Alienware Laptop which only has a 2070 (mobile version) in it, and am running an outboard 3440x1440 (Ultrawide) and generally have between 90-120 frames consistantly?
Maybe you should empty your p0rn folder which is giving your PC aids, and then have another go.
One of the funniest things about this D4 debacle is how people are now trying to paint D3 as some kind of masterpiece that’s the gold standard for ARPGs because D3 is better than D4. No it’s still a dumpster fire, just not as much of one as D4.
I’m kinda curious, I play on a laptop with a 2070RTX and i have no problems.
But i did not down load the high def version. My laptop also serves as a coffee warmer too. lol But it chugs along.
I am done 2 - all these messages about ppl being done - while I am having fun - like - I am done with these ppl - its a $90 purchase - do u whine this much about a parking fine?