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Old 12-08-2012, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Chivas View Post
Exactly how does the terrain data travel from the harddrive, does all of go thru the system ram to the video card vram, or does some or all go directly from the harddrive to the vram?
I don't know exactly, but I do know that the hard drive is much slower than RAM, and RAM is much slower than the CPU or GPU, so it doesn't really matter that much, the drive is the bottleneck.
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