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That is, reportedly, beginning to change. I've been seeing reports of TLOU PC port choking on cards with 10gb of vram, only getting decent once you crest 12gb.

It may take until the _next_ console generation for 24gb cards to get well and truly utilized, but the 12gb seen on Nvidia's current midrange cards may quickly feel anemic.

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> I've been seeing reports of TLOU PC port choking on cards with 10gb of vram, only getting decent once you crest 12gb.

That seems more because devs didn't do a good job in porting a 10 year old game (released in 2013) that ran perfectly fine on a PS3, which only had 256MB of system RAM and 256MB of VRAM. The PC TLOU port is not advancing the state-of-the-art in graphics, it should not be seen as a sign of the new normal.

TLOU Part I != TLOU (2013). It's a complete remake from the ground up built off of TLOU Part II engine enhancements. Your point still stands that it's a bad port as it runs on the PS5 just fine and shouldn't be choking decently spec'd PCs.

I believe what's being spoken about is the PC port of the recently released TLOU remake, which is native to the PS5 and designed to leverage its hardware fully. It's still a bad port, but not so bad that it's a 10 year old game struggling to run on a current generation PC.

Looks like new features coming up in DirectX 12 updates will allow for more access to VRAM as well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dx12-optimization-cpu-gpu-...

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