Stutters: all related with texture streaming?

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Originally Posted by Rattlehead

I suppose that is true. Devs have been spoilt a bit.
Most video cards ship with 1gb of vram or more these days though, so unless people are running some pretty old hardware, they should at least be able to run texture detail on medium settings.

Here I can run without stutter in high, in one 1GB VRAM card.

But I suspect that devs can lower the size of high detailed textures without losing much quality, and really need to work in clouds rendering: they don't look so great and is the big impact in FPS so far. I lost maybe 20 FPS in maps with clounds, and in a modern VGA, decente optimized clounds and smoke aren't that bad...