Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – PC Settings Unveiled, Ultra Textures Require 6GB Of VRAM

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Things are quickly getting out of hand. NeoGAF’s member ‘Regret Truth’ has shared an image from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor that shows the PC settings for it. What really surprised us, however, was the fact that: a) there will be an Ultra Texture Pack available for download in day-one and b) it will require 6GB of VRAM when these Ultra textures have been activated.

And that is at only 1080p. We’re not talking about 4K resolutions (so imagine what it will take to push this title at such high resolutions).

Just yesterday, Bethesda claimed that The Evil Within would require 4GB of VRAM in order to be properly enjoyed (at presumably max settings). And now here comes Monolith with those somehow ridiculous requirements. I mean, seriously now, not even the newly released GTX970 will be able to run it. Hilarious.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor releases next week.

Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
 
lmao, 6GB of VRAM at 1080p? Awfully optimized. So only Titan users will be able to run it? Joke.
 
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Guess I won't be using ultra textures. My 780 Ti is looking very inadequate.
 
wshowers said:
:ycry:
Guess I won't be using ultra textures. My 780 Ti is looking very inadequate.
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Yea right? Jesus. At this rate I might be upgrading to a 980 or 980 Ti sooner than I would have liked. Absolutely ridiculous. Those textures must be the sharpest most clean thing I've ever seen for 6GB of VRAM at 1080p.

Unless they pulled a Doom 3/Titanfall and the Ultra textures are uncompressed textures that visually are no different than
"high" textures.
 
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor gameplay: max settings at 2560x1440 on LPC



LPC =
i7 4960x
4 GtX Titans
64 GB Ram
 
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wshowers said:
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor gameplay: max settings at 2560x1440 on LPC



LPC =
i7 4960x
4 GtX Titans
64 GB Ram
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You mean to tell me this average looking game requires 6gb vram for ultra textures?
 
lol, watch the toned down settings look almost the same.
 
Wow, I have a 670. Should I even bother with the PC version? Or just get the PS4 one?
 
probably over killed. There is only so much texture resolution can do to make a game looks better.

The extra performance can be instead used for higher polygon models, better lightnings, better materials etc.

Up res size (& resolution as well) is the easy thing to do of course since textures which are image files, can easily be scaled, & do not required intensive extra work.

The game looks good, but not super good looking that required that powerful of a rig. But of course that is max setting, tone down texture res down a little, & it will look 90% as good, but required significantly less performance.
 
Talk about a bunch of monkeys developing this game for PC.
 
This is making me confused as to on which platform I would play this game. I mean, I have a godd--n R9 290 and I'm thinking PC version may not run well, WTF?
 
I tink its not that bad. Just do not play with the Max settings.
 
Seems like it's unoptimized. As it's not the greatest visually, certainly not enough that 6gb of vram is needed.
 
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CFogle21 said:
Wow, I have a 670. Should I even bother with the PC version? Or just get the PS4 one?
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Get the pc version. The recommended specs for this game is a 660. You'll be fine. The pc version is 10 bucks less than the console version, and even at not totally maxed out settings, you'll get better visuals than the ps3 version.
 
The thread title needs to be changed. It should say "Welcome to the next generation of PC system requirements!" :D
 
The 6Gb max requirements is a joke, just look at that video so many blurred textures they more look like medium textures.

Im sure if you play on high or even med you will not able to tell apart specially at 1080p.
Im more then sure that you will be able to play on Ultra with 3gb of video ram.

I yet have to see a game in last 2 years hit more then 2.5-3gb Vram the most i saw is 3.5-3.9 on Stalker - Lost Alpha mod everything maxed DX10.1
That's the only game/mod that came close to actually using 4gb of Vram, but that's really exception or Skyrim with people using all kind of mods on top of each other without making sure they are compatible and wondering why it eats so much vram.
 
GamingArena said:
Im sure if you play on high or even med you will not able to tell apart specially at 1080p.
Im more then sure that you will be able to play on Ultra with 3gb of video ram.
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This.

People need to stop thinking that if you can't run the game at it's absolute highest settings at insane resolutions, then the game is worthless.
 
You people....still judging max visuals from a youtube vid....
 
if i can get high and 60fps i will be very happy. i have a 3GB VRAM

cant wait for this tomorrow.. horizon 2 is also out tomorrow (US Store) so the game drought is well and truly over
 
Dibils said:
if i can get high and 60fps i will be very happy. i have a 3GB VRAM

cant wait for this tomorrow.. horizon 2 is also out tomorrow (US Store) so the game drought is well and truly over
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Let us know how well the game runs on your rig & impression of course.
 
Wow, still not seeing where the horsepower is needed....very poorly optimized game.
 
That's incredibly odd that a 970GTX can barely max it at 1080p. Maybe it's a case of how the open-world game, Skyrim, is really demanding on PC despite running on much weaker consoles, and it's because they don't scale down for PC. I think this is what happened with this game. It's either that or this is a straight port of the PS4 version and PCs are just struggling to match its quality.
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