Ok excellent info's.

Clearly there is no 2G limit of some kind on the video card usage so basically the more video ram you can get the better (there were some articals stating that more then 2G is only used when you multi monitor, guess they are wrong).

I do wonder why the extra .5G is not in use. Maybe there just isnt more then 2.5G of textures in a single zone with only one side characters. That would also be some super information if that were the case. Where you on at prime time?

If you ever have the time and inclination run this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb896646

and see if you are still loading textures after a bunch of passes through SW like you did. If not then we would know that people with 3G video cards don't need SSD ....