Steam Deals Thread V13 ~ Star Wars Empire at War $6.80 | The Legend of Korra $10.04 | Red Faction Guerrilla $2.99 |

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Summer sale has come and gone; welcome to the Steam Deals Thread V13!
 
Stop: Before you go any further be sure you are using Enhanced Steam. It will save you a lot of time and embarrassment in the future.
 
Daily Deal
Star Wars: Empire at War Gold Edition - $19.99 $6.80

 
Yesterday's Deal

N/A

Midweek Madness
The Legend of Korra - $14.99 $10.04

Red Faction - $9.99 $1.49
Red Faction II - $9.99 $1.49
Red Faction Armageddon - $19.99 $2.99
Red Faction Guerrilla - $19.99 $2.99 
 
Thanks to EastX, Detruire, Psydero, and everyone else that has contributed to the thread!

 
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My understanding of VRAM is that it mostly dictates texture resolutions, so... What screen resolution do you plan to play at?

If not more than 1920x1080 I don't think you have anything to worry about. 

 
madjoki said:
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Wow. 6 GB VRAM recommended.
Is there even cards with more than 4GB per GPU?

(Shadow of Mordor)
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I think this is one of the few "cheapest" options around....

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-R9-280X-GAMING-6G/dp/B00IZO4CPM/ - MSI AMD Radeon R9 280X, 6GB GDDR5 - $389.99

http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-DL-DVI-I-SL-DVI-D-PCI-Express-11197-05-40G/ - Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 7970 GHZ OC 6GB DDR5 $365.00 - Used
 
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asheskitty said:
Control scheme is different for each toon.

Elf:

Right Stick: weak shot

LT: bomb

RT: sniper shot

A: interact

B: roll/dodge

RB / LB: Relic 1/2

Wizard is like Magicka-lite... combine two spell elements (3 elements, X/Y/B) and then they cast with RS (iirc)

Hit pause with the toon... and view controls
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Great advice, the elf is pretty fun.

I'm not even going to attempt the wizard. He requires mortal kombat skills which I don't possess.

 
asheskitty said:
Titan has 6GB...

http://www.nvidia.com/gtx-700-graphics-cards/gtx-titan-black/

Its market is compute though, and priced accordingly... though it was also Nvidia's best single GPU card before 980 introduction (haven't seen an 980 vs Titan compare though... totally different price points.)
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The new 4GB VRAM GF GTX 970 looks pretty bad-ass - and that's around suggested retail of $329.

Reviews for this thing seem stellar, as reviews are saying it's at a better price than 980 and can be overclocked a bit to get similar performance #'s to the 980:

GameSpot's thoughts.

Eurogamer's thoughts.

 
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No one posting has demonstrated a working understanding of VRAM...

You need more VRAM for higher res textures!

Higher Resolution!  (and SSAA)

Higher MSAA (2x,4x,8x)

You are all discounting the fact that high res textures require a lot of VRAM.  In a scene you have the texture map of every element in VRAM (and probably many more textures)... as textures scale up from 256x256 to 512x512 to 1024x1024 (or even 2048x2048) you need FOUR TIMES MORE VRAM each step.  This is independent of the resolution of your display.

IIRC the Skyrim high res texure pack is 512x512 textures.... modders have made 1024x1024 and 2048x2048 textures (the full width of your 1080p display).

In regards to that 4GB VRAM game... information looks sketchy... very very few people have 4 GB cards atm... you really need to be targeting your game to run well in 2GB of VRAM @ 1080p to be able to run on most enthusiast rigs.   They will be optimizing it.

That said they might have used huge textures in targeting PS4 (8GB GDDR5 shared between "system RAM" and VRAM).

 
Frithsblessing said:
Great advice, the elf is pretty fun.

I'm not even going to attempt the wizard. He requires mortal kombat skills which I don't possess.
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^_^ I like the Elf... (wizard looks like it really need experimentation/practice)

The rolling and bomb skills are fantastic, sniper shot is quite good when you can stand still for a moment. The weak shot is competent if you're just picking off small mobs.

 
I'm replacing my VRAM with DRAM. It's closer to 'A', so it must be better, rite, cause ARAM isn't available yet. I'm hoping this nexgen revolution brings on 4000K resolutions soon, so us CAGers can get texture maps that exceed screen resolutions.
 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
I play all my games projected on a personal Imax screen.
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are u not on ur own nuts hehe i play on the mars screen


Neuro5i5 said:
I'm replacing my VRAM with DRAM. It's closer to 'A', so it must be better, rite, cause ARAM isn't available yet. I'm hoping this nexgen revolution brings on 4000K resolutions soon, so us CAGers can get texture maps that exceed screen resolutions.
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i use sram

 
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Neuro5i5 said:
I'm replacing my VRAM with DRAM. It's closer to 'A', so it must be better, rite, cause ARAM isn't available yet. I'm hoping this nexgen revolution brings on 4000K resolutions soon, so us CAGers can get texture maps that exceed screen resolutions.
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Pfft, wetware is the future. I logged into RealityNet this morning, and left my virtual abode, as I was making a left turn off off my virtual street, I saw a great scene, with an awesome high dynamic range animated skymap, excellent ambient occlusion, and half a screen of tree leaves swaying independently in a breeze with nearly perfect anti-aliasing. Let's see your sillycone chips do that!

...the NPC AI however was a bit of a letdown, though I suppose that's realistic.

 
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In regards to 6 GB of RAM, a reliable and well known source has already stated this months ago (pre 900 launch)

Thankfully, Gibbo from OverclockersUK spilled some beans about GTX 980 and GTX 970. According to him NVIDIA is planning 4GB reference models and also 8GB with custom cooling solutions ‘at later date’. Of course, we also heard about 8GB models. In fact flagship cards with doubled memory are nothing surprising. According to OCUK’s and our information GTX 980 and GTX 970 with 8GB models are expected somewhere between November and December.
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Nearly every enthusiast gamer I know is already using 1440p as their bare min resolution, especially with our GSYNC displays so it's entirely believable that more and more games will start trying to offer more options (with Nvidia's loving push) for these higher memory cards. However, I've yet to see the "improved" texture options do a damn thing *cough* Watch Dogs *cough*.

 
Pretty good for Steam coupon. But already have the game :(

-45% sale + 90% coupons begin given (restart Steam to check if you get one). That's almost 95% off.

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Bruticis said:
In regards to 6 GB of RAM, a reliable and well known source has already stated this months ago (pre 900 launch)

Nearly every enthusiast gamer I know is already using 1440p as their bare min resolution, especially with our GSYNC displays so it's entirely believable that more and more games will start trying to offer more options (with Nvidia's loving push) for these higher memory cards. However, I've yet to see the "improved" texture options do a damn thing *cough* Watch Dogs *cough*.
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Diminishing returns. Textures aren't usually whole screen so they are downscaled.

Higher resolution (supersampling) might be worth more to get rid of jagginess around small objects such as grass.

 
madjoki said:
Diminishing returns. Textures aren't usually whole screen so they are downscaled.

Higher resolution (supersampling) might be worth more to get rid of jagginess around small objects such as grass.
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I understand that completely, my point was more that texture options at this point are marketing crap. As you said, SS is where it's at for now which is why I want to see more RAM on cards. Jaggies and screen tearing are the only things I care about.

 
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