Hi, I am wondering how much vram in graphics cards is required to play this game smoothly when zooming in close to look at ship textures when in fleets.

I'm currently getting less than 10fps when zoomed in close to a lot of ships in large fleets, which I think is because my aging graphics card is bottle-necking my system (I'm due to buy a new one soon).

I know it's not my cpu because I currently have the fastest cpu on the planet AMD 9800X3D which idles at less than 5% at 4k resolution. I only have 8gb vram on my old graphics card and when looking at radeontop I'm seeing my vram nearly maxed out which I suspect is the bottleneck.

Can anyone confirm? And what would be the optimal amount of vram to have (16gb)?