Would purchasing a new video card help.

 

I have Nvidia 550 Ti 1GB.

 

I could get for example an Nvidia 760 with 2 GB.

I could get for example an Nvidia 760 with 2 GB.

 

Waste of money - you need to go with at least 4gig not enough of a jump from 1 to 2 gig to see much difference - video cards are very close to each other in performance - one would think oh boy going to buy that new faster video card and guess what not much better than the last

Nobody needs 4 GB of VRAM. But you need a graphics card with a faster GPU than the 760 if you really want to see an improvement. You need at least a 780 to see significantly better performance. But even then you will see stutters.

"Nobody needs 4 GB of VRAM"

 

Your kidding right - amazing some of the replies here 

"Nobody needs 4 GB of VRAM"

 

Your kidding right - amazing some of the replies here 

 

I have a 2 GB GPU and my VRAM usage is less then 1,5 Gb, even my settings are high.

As I already said, I only disabled HDR and FOG, this are my fps Killer.

"But you need a graphics card with a faster GPU than the 760 if you really want to see an improvement."

 

Ok, maybe I will think about another PC .. rather than a $300 Nvidia 760 2GB. No use spending $300 for not much improvement.

Rich,

 

"Waste of money - you need to go with at least 4gig not enough of a jump from 1 to 2 gig to see much difference"

 

Would this be useful for Photoshop CS6 also?

I have a 2 GB GPU and my VRAM usage is less then 1,5 Gb, even my settings are high.

As I already said, I only disabled HDR and FOG, this are my fps Killer.

I have actually better fps with hdr on - have not tried fog yet

 

 

Ok, maybe I will think about another PC .. rather than a $300 Nvidia 760 2GB. No use spending $300 for not much improvement.

 

Would have helped if we knew what your rig is 

More vram is really, only necessary when running multiple monitors or a monitor with a higher resolution.  (>1080p)

I'm running a gtx 670 2 gb card and also only see at the most 1.6gb being used, even with the gpu running at 99%.This is with cloud shadows on, water detail high, hdr on, volumetric fog on, reflection for aircraft, clouds and terrain on, aircraft shadows, inside and out are on. Zero stuttering in clouds with live weather.

 

 

 

 Jazz

Rich,

 

"Would have helped if we knew what your rig is"

 

My PC is 3 years old.

 

550W power supply

Motherboard : Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3
Realtek audio

Intel Core i7 2600 3.40GHz / 3.70GHz Quad core, 8 threads.

Win7-64 Home Premium
16GB RAM
Two 1TB hard drives

Viewsonic, 2 monitors
VX2250WM-LED (1920x1080)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB
Driver 340.52 8-19-2014

DirectX 11

I use other software like XP10 and BF4 - easily those can eat 3+ GB of video ram...

 

If you only use FSX 2GB is fine..  P3D in the future I suspect will use more.... especially with multimonitors.

Rich,

 

"Would have helped if we knew what your rig is"

 

Not a bad rig you have - you can wait for the new z99 platform to come out and in the mean time - I see your running two monitors you could use the video card you have now for a secondary monitor and buy a new video card for your primary - and that new video card choice should be a wise one as you will install it into the z99 platform that being said I would invest in a 6gb GTX 780 which will be great in your new rig if you get one - as for a titan card that would be quite an investment you may not want to pursue - this is what I would do - the only other thing is that power supply - if you go with a GTX780 I  would think about upgrading that in the future 

Rich,

Some of my specs and FPS with iFly737 e.g.

Shadows etc all off.


 

Better shots, almost out of GPU memory




 

I have a 2 GB GPU and my VRAM usage is less then 1,5 Gb, even my settings are high.

As I already said, I only disabled HDR and FOG, this are my fps Killer.

 

Yup - it does come down to what resolution you're running (i.e. single display vs 4K or across multiple monitors...)

 

Edit: Just saw Jazz said the same thing ^_^

"Nobody needs 4 GB of VRAM"

 

Your kidding right - amazing some of the replies here

Yeah. That certainly includes some of your comments on this forum. E.g. such BS as the Bufferpools=0 "tweak". Sorry to say. But sometimes I have to reply to the senseless stuff posted here.

Yup - it does come down to what resolution you're running (i.e. single display vs 4K or across multiple monitors...)

 

Edit: Just saw Jazz said the same thing ^_^

 

1 Display in 1920*1080