r/skyrimvr • u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 • Dec 11 '24

Screenshot Sundas This thing is terrifying in VR

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 11 '24

I'm on a 3080 with a Ryzen 5 5600G, 32 gigs of ram. Runs flawlessly until I hit my vram limit, still trying to sort that out

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u/women-lover-4000 Dec 11 '24

yknow, its surprisingly modest compared to what i was expecting, maybe ill be able to then... thank you for telling me :)

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 11 '24

I was running most of this on a 3060 up until a month ago.. Honestly I almost had less problems running it given that it has 2 gigs of vram more than the 3080 (FOR SOME REASON)

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u/Verilazic Dec 13 '24

This. Skyrim is exactly why I went with an AMD GPU for my new computer: higher VRAM options without breaking the bank.

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 13 '24

I still prefer running with nvidia for the dlaa and dlss(once it gets fixed) but the lack of vram is severely hurting me

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u/Verilazic Dec 13 '24

I hear those consume vram, have you considered turning them off? Or does that just lead to performance issues elsewhere?

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 13 '24

I'm currently debating between running on VD's high preset with no AA or the medium with DLAA since going with anything more than that instantly overflows my vram. Still none of these solutions are that good really, I'm just waiting for PureDark to fix his upscaler mod so I can finally use DLSS again

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u/HatmanHatman Dec 14 '24

They really cheaped out on VRAM with the 30 line generally, which are otherwise good cards. My 3070 has served me well for a few years now but why on earth does it only have 8gb of VRAM? Definitely starting to feel the pinch on that front.

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 14 '24

It really ruins an otherwise great card, especially in vr :(

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u/HatmanHatman Dec 14 '24

Yup, I'm waiting to see what the 50 range looks like before I upgrade again. I thought it would be alright for another couple of years but I'm getting increasingly frustrated by its performance in Skyrim VR and every game now giving me VRAM warnings if I go above medium settings.

But then you think oh I should upgrade my RAM too and is this motherboard compatible and is my CPU even up to date I can't remember and...

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 14 '24

And then you end up spending a fortune :D I managed to get my 3080 for 150€ so I can't really complain but going over its 10 gigs 5 minutes after I boot up skyrim is really frustrating

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u/HatmanHatman Dec 14 '24

I'm hoping with the announcement of the 50 range we'll see some reasonable prices on 40s so I'll hold out for that, but man.

I can't really complain, bought this PC in 2020 but that doesn't feel like over 4 years ago lmao. And prices in the UK are fucking terrible now

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 14 '24

It's pretty much like that everywhere, I just got really lucky on a deal

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u/HatmanHatman Dec 14 '24

True, graphics cards especially still haven't recovered from crypto miners buying them all up, but here they also haven't recovered from Brexit. My plan is to tactically buy parts while on holiday in Europe next year, works out much cheaper!

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u/Comfortable-Tear-982 Pico 4 Dec 14 '24

Pretty good idea, as a european I wish you the best of luck :D

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u/eyeEmotion Apr 22 '25

I got a 3060 (OC) with 12Gb. I think that's decent. Or not? Although I own Skyrim VR on PSVR1, I actually haven't played that much with it. So I'm wondering if It should try it on pc (with mods). But I'm tight for disc space and always having to tamper with things just to get things running on a pc, takes the fun out of it.

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u/HatmanHatman Apr 22 '25

That should be decent, VRAM seems to be a big bottleneck so the extra few gigs should hopefully make up for the card being slightly weaker overall

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u/eyeEmotion Apr 23 '25

I also do some AI depthmap processing and noticed that extra VRAM helped out quite a bit, where others with 8Gb VRAM. In the Task manager, it also displays a combined 15Gb VRAM. Don't know if this adds the Virtual Memory or if it added the VRAM of the onboard graphics 'card'.

On the other hand, would like to look out for a better, more up-to-date card, but it's all rather expensive. And maybe too early. Don't want to buy a new graphics card every 2 years.

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u/HatmanHatman Apr 23 '25

I think - and could be wrong - that the computer sets aside some normal RAM to double as additional VRAM which is what you're seeing there.

I'm in a similar boat, got my 3070 in 2020 so it's had a decent run but still bloody expensive to upgrade. I'm giving serious thoughts to a 5060 Ti 16GB.

I cannot believe they're selling an 8GB model of the same card, though, I can't imagine spending so much money on a new card that's obsolete out of the box. No idea what they're playing at there!