Metro Last Light

Technology and Gaming
#21

Guys, how much video memory is required for the game to play on the max settings smoothly? I have 2Gb of it, and the game plays sometimes like a slide-show, other times with great fps, even in very complex scenes. Or it is an issue of lack of enough of system RAM, which I have 6Gb?

#22

I think it uses less than 2GB VRAM maxed out without ssaa. What are your specs? And besides the quality setting (which you said you maxed) what are your other settings (physx, ssaa, etc)?.

#23

Well, I am not really max out with this game (which I just realized) - anisotropic filtering is at 4, and there is no SSAA (though the game looks perfect even without it), and I have non PhysX setting in. Also, my CPU is Pentium G620 (dual core, clokced at 2.60 Ghz, under i3 class CPU), and the speed of the system RAM is unknown to me. The video card is R7 260X. I realize that the game utilizes some GI algorithm, that is more CPU hungry than the “Metro 2033” game, so, I guess it at times needs a lot of system RAM (perhaps for Kd-Tree building, or such), which I do not have.

#24

I think your CPU is the issue. The Metro games are actually properly multithreaded, so having 4+ cores would be best. Two cores is kind of pushing it. Having 6GB RAM should be fine.

Edit: And just checked, a dual core CPU at 2.2GHz is the minimum requirement, so your CPU is just above minimum.

#25

Thanks for the information!

#26

I suppose that the reason for the lack of performance at times is the amount of memory: 6Gb, which is not enough (in the specs of the game it says that 8Gb are required for the optimal performance).

#27

I don’t even know if the game is 64 bit. And I doubt the game uses much more than 2GB if it is. And I think lack of ram would cause stuttering and not really low frame rate.

#28

After I disconnected Internet, and had shut down the Internet Security the game played flawlessly!

#29

How does the visuals of the Redux version of the game compares to the original? And what about the speed?

#30

It’s just a more optimized version of the same game, no major changes to anything.

#31

Thanks for the answer so soon!

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