Benchmark analysis part 1: over water. VRAM bottleneck ?

[Skinny]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Quite comprehensive test there, Skinny! So is the whole performance issue related to memory management as clock speeds do not seem to affect that much at all..

On my rig, it certainly looks that way. I only have 512 MB VRAM, so its hard to say if people with modern videocards with >1 GB are in the same boat. But considering on the track I used there is no ground, no buildings, no nothing but water, I can only guess how bad the issue is over land. I doubt 1 Gig of vram would suddenly solve everything.

Does anyone know if there is a way to compress textures, like there was on il2?