Well in the spirit of internet activism I up-voted the bug report here https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1263324/gpu-memory-allocation-limit-on-directx9-windows-8 Semi-related to this discussion, do we know any details on the Skyrim remaster. My understanding is that Skyrim is in essence a dx9 game to keep all the consoles on the same platform. Since the remaster is mainly intended to get people on the newer consoles, is it feasible that the dx version would be bumped up?
Is there any updates on this issue? While this might have been a fringe issue, now that the Nvidia 1070 and 1080 are out, I think that this bug is highly relevant. I was planning on doing a ton of benchmarking for S.T.E.P, but if my 1080 is going to be throttled by Windows 10, I'll probably have to wait.