Oh frustrations. Tried the beta but HEY vram wall. So then, oh look a new driver, download/uninstall blah blah hope my DS doesn't break, and it seems the driver does not install and better yet its been taken down everywhere. I am now driverless and have officially met with my vram concern.
Far be it from cool to complain about having a 690, sure, but it still is quite shitty that it was labeled and advertised and even written up in a few reviews as having 4gb of video memory when its only 2 per core, and unshared. I should have done more research and been more aware, but I still feel shafted. I would have spent the same money, but I would have done two 4gb 670s or 680s. Downsampling is not necesary, but it is pretty amazing, and its frustrating to have the processing oomph to handle it, to have shelled out this (too) much money, but have 5 fps dropped down like an iron wall. So futureproofing was not a thing when I got this.