PC Black Ops III Specs Talk - 12GB RAM and 980Ti not Enough

nafu · Nov 6, 2015

This year's installment to the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops III, has just hit stores, and is predictably flying off shelves. As with every ceremonial annual release, Black Ops III raises the visual presentation standards for the franchise. There is, however, one hitch with the way the game deals with system memory amounts as high as 12 GB and video memory amounts as high as 8 GB. This hitch could possibly be the reason behind the stuttering issues many users are reporting.

In our first play-through of the game with its highest possible settings on our personal gaming machines - equipped with a 2560 x 1600 pixels display, Core i7 "Haswell" quad-core CPU, 12 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card, NVIDIA's latest Black Ops III Game Ready driver 385.87, and Windows 7 64-bit to top it all off, we noticed that the game was running out of memory. Taking a peek at Task Manager revealed that in "Ultra" settings (and 2560 x 1600 resolution), the game was maxing out memory usage within our 12 GB, not counting the 1.5-2 GB used up by the OS and essential lightweight tasks (such as antivirus).

What's even more interesting is its video memory behavior. The GTX 980 Ti, with its 6 GB video memory, was developing a noticeable stutter. This stutter disappeared on the GTX TITAN X, with its 12 GB video memory, in which memory load shot up from maxed out 6 GB on the GTX 980 Ti, to 8.4 GB on the video memory. What's more, system memory usage dropped with the GTX TITAN X, down to 8.3 GB.

Source https://www.techpowerup.com/217308/black-ops-iii-12-gb-ram-and-gtx-980-ti-not-enough.html

Majawar · Nov 6, 2015

The Beta gameplay turned out quite successful. The game didn't had those stupid bugs like Ghost and AW have.

As far as they keep game bug less the system usage is not a problem for me.

9Meez · Nov 6, 2015

WOW... Lets see hot it goes on my 390X 8GB...

puppet · Nov 6, 2015

(wtf),
acha tareeka he titanx ka theka kr k sale increase karany ka

JKhan · Nov 6, 2015

This seems like a totally sloppy piece of programming to me. For a linear, heavily scripted game to use that much, I'm not surprised they gave minimal effort to the porting process.

rotipuj · Nov 6, 2015

Battlefront 3 looks wayyyy better and it has bigger maps and yet it runs better? Jesus. I was hyped for this for the splitscreen co-op, but I don't want it stuttering like crazy.

nafu · Nov 6, 2015

JKhan said:
This seems like a totally sloppy piece of programming to me. For a linear, heavily scripted game to use that much, I'm not surprised they gave minimal effort to the porting process.

YES probably the indication of Bad Port once again PC Gamers gonna face. secondly the Video RAM and System RAM is way high if we look upon GPUz and Task Manager operation. Insanely high.

JKhan · Nov 6, 2015

nafu said:
YES probably the indication of Bad Port once again PC Gamers gonna face. secondly the Video RAM and System RAM is way high if we look upon GPUz and Task Manager operation. Insanely high.

I've not played call of duty since 2009 so I'm not sure about what engine tech its currently running. But its obvious that due to the nature of consoles 8GB memory utilization, they did not properly optimize the game according to the strengths of the PC platform. Its funny that the latest Battlefront beta ran remarkably well on a fully loaded map with much more going on compared to a closed corridor shooter with the emphasis on TDM style gameplay.

Its obvious PC ain't their primary target audience, so my question is why even bother?

nafu · Nov 6, 2015

also rumored, Game doesn't play well on intel CPU like i5. will m 7850 can handle it lol

xtremegamer132 · Nov 7, 2015

holy shit, then what will be the recommended specs for maxing it out?? lol

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puppet · Nov 7, 2015

nafu said:
also rumored, Game doesn't play well on intel CPU like i5. will m 7850 can handle it lol

I should stick with anno2205 this season then

and delete the torrent of bops3

MrJayPlays · Nov 7, 2015

its running smooth 80 fps on my gtx 970 with 8gb ram on higj settings. only textures are not on extra. 1080p

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abobobilly · Nov 8, 2015

I never thought a GTX680 would feel ancient this quick. WTF does this game (or the previous Advance Warfare) really have, which hurts the performance this bad? I mean, Far Cry 4 with its HUGE environments looks 3x better, and still manages to run beautifully well on my GTX680. BO3 in comparison neither has huge environments, nor has that beauty, so i wonder what would be the reason behind that stuttering and sh*t.

I had to lower the "Render Resolution" to like 70% of my actual resolution (1440x900) and it still stutters many times during one minute. I also had to turn every other setting to medium, in order to achieve a smooth-ish 60fps (which still isn't properly 60). Couldn't affoard to play without that "Filmic" effect so didn't turn down the AA, but i have checked the performance with AA completely disabled, and surprisingly it has ZERO affect on performance. That's so odd <_<

How f*cked up this port has to be in order to become THIS bad? Pleasantly, it doesn't have those mouse problems which brought huge problems in previous games, so that's a huge plus, IMO.

Anyway, i am currently running the Nvidia 355.82 WHQL drivers. I'll see if upgrading to the latest version brings any improvements.

9Meez · Nov 8, 2015

Thats Y i quit playing games on PC for 5 Years :shifty:......But fortunately or unfortunately returned back to it and sailing in 2 boats simultaneously consoles and PC ... whichever gives me a smooth ride i choose that one. (2t)

deltoid61 · Nov 8, 2015

9Meez said:
Thats Y i quit playing games on PC for 5 Years :shifty:......But fortunately or unfortunately returned back to it and sailing in 2 boats simultaneously consoles and PC ... whichever gives me a smooth ride i choose that one. (2t)

i play games on pc after 1 year from their release if they get mature else i just like to play old shooters Pc is no way for gaming these days let see what happens to AC syndicate

staticPointer · Nov 8, 2015

its time to buy dell alienware which cost around 3LAC

9Meez · Nov 8, 2015

staticPointer said:
its time to buy dell alienware which cost around 3LAC

y bro .. y spending so much if you have option of ps4 or xbox one ... with minor difference of graphics :no: ...

nafu · Nov 8, 2015

abobobilly said:
I never thought a GTX680 would feel ancient this quick. WTF does this game (or the previous Advance Warfare) really have, which hurts the performance this bad? I mean, Far Cry 4 with its HUGE environments looks 3x better, and still manages to run beautifully well on my GTX680. BO3 in comparison neither has huge environments, nor has that beauty, so i wonder what would be the reason behind that stuttering and sh*t.

I had to lower the "Render Resolution" to like 70% of my actual resolution (1440x900) and it still stutters many times during one minute. I also had to turn every other setting to medium, in order to achieve a smooth-ish 60fps (which still isn't properly 60). Couldn't affoard to play without that "Filmic" effect so didn't turn down the AA, but i have checked the performance with AA completely disabled, and surprisingly it has ZERO affect on performance. That's so oddI had to lower the "Render Resolution" to like 70% of my actual resolution (1440x900) and it still stutters many times during one minute. I also had to turn every other setting to medium, in order to achieve a smooth-ish 60fps (which still isn't properly 60). Couldn't affoard to play without that "Filmic" effect so didn't turn down the AA, but i have checked the performance with AA completely disabled, and surprisingly it has ZERO affect on performance. That's so odd

bAD PC Port man. as usual we see with grand Hyped Games. GTX 680 is a good Card.

Another thing it might be driver issue, as nvidia preference is now maxwell. so they dropped down kepler as low priority. But this game has some serious issues.

MavericKiz3d · Nov 8, 2015

I am running c2q q8400, 4gb ram, gtx560ti. So i even stand a chance?

When i run the game, I only see black screen. I mean it should at least load and then give me 5fps or something lol

nafu · Nov 8, 2015

MavericKiz3d said:
I am running c2q q8400, 4gb ram, gtx560ti. So i even stand a chance?

When i run the game, I only see black screen. I mean it should at least load and then give me 5fps or something lol

Well, here 680 and 970 have complains. 560Ti is long gen gone.

Actually Game is really in bad condition. i suggest guys not to play games until patches and updates comes. teh whole experience will go into trash.

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