<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Ah, do you mean that using rectangle textures is only a coordinates thing and doesn't affect the memory layout at all, and so 3840x3840 will still be stored as 4096x4096 no matter what ?<div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>No, rectangle textures will use pretty much the exact pixel size (usually the row packing is rounded up to the next 16 byte value for efficiency).<br><br>I said you need 1GB because that is the closest value one can actually buy. 2GB would insure no paging to disk or out of VRAM though. <br>
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