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  1. Haerakles

    [SOLVED] Gigabyte VRAM increase?

    Hello! I am swinging a 2014 GigaByte B85M-D3V with BIOS version: F5 and I am in need of increasing the VRAM capacity. Specifities include 16 GB RAM Memory in which 8192MB are of Dedicated Video Memory and 8158 are of Shared System Memory. Accessing the BIOS I could not find any Chipset tab in...
  2. U

    [SOLVED] RX 580 Pixel Stretch Artifact Problem

    Hello everyone, I have a problem with multiple games (World War Z, Modern Warfare). As you can see from this video (not mine but this is what it looks like) there seems to be some pixel stretching happening. I tried underclocking but the problem still persist. I think it's not a problem of...
  3. A

    Question GPU VRAM in MSI afterburner

    The RX580 and the GTX 1060 uses GDDR5 but in MSI Afterburner it says the GTX 1060 as 8000MHz and the RX580 as 2000MHz does this mean the GTX 1060 has a 4X faster VRAM?
  4. D

    Question Will upgrading a graphics card with more memory alleviate GPU bound games?

    My son has a fairly new MSI GTX 1660 Ti 6G OC Gaming X He plays Runescape, generally 2 clients at a time, and likes to watch you tube and/or twitch, browse facebook and talk on discord all at the same time on a system with an I5-8600K and 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16. He has a 750W PSU and 2x32" 2K...
  5. X

    Question Issues when I plug a third monitor on my GTX 970 : VRAM USAGE AND POWER

    Hello, sorry for my english I'm french... I've got a big problem with my GPU. When I plug a third screen on my computer, I can see (in MSI Afterburner) that the VRAM frequency is increasing from about 340MHZ to 3900MHZ, the power is from 10% to 50% and the consumption is from 15W to 51W...
  6. Domeury

    [SOLVED] Would I see better performance if I increase my dedicated VRAM?

    Hello, I have 8GB of RAM in total, an 2GB of dedicated VRAM. if i were to change the amount of dedicated VRAM, would I see better performance in video games? yes, I have a lot of available RAM ( about 6 gigs). games like COD: Warzone require 2048MB minimum VRAM, so me only having 2000MB does...
  7. BatsLaw

    Question My Laptop Is SUDDENLY SLOW IN GAMING

    I have a dell Vostro 3560 64bit intel i5 3230M processor intel HD 4000 AMD RADEON HD 7600M series Intel is the main display driver and amd is the render Let me tell the whole condition Months ago my laptop was upgraded to windows 10 pro from windows 7 and because of that all my games...
  8. thetechissue

    [SOLVED] VRAM vs Core OC

    Generally speaking, is it more dangerous to overclock the vram than the core clock?
  9. TechyInAZ

    Discussion Is 8GB of VRAM Enough For the Future? (VRAM Consumption Discussion Thread)

    Hi Community, with VRAM consumption going up considerably in 2020 with games like COD Warzone and especially DOOM Eternal, are we at a point now where 8GB of VRAM might be the minimum requirement for games of 2021? After doing research on the matter, seems evidence is pointing more towards this...
  10. C

    [SOLVED] Which GPU for budget gaming build?

    My budget is ~600 USD CPU- Ryzen 5 1600. $85 MOB- ASrock 450b mATX. $70 RAM- Corsair Veng. 2x8GB. $65 SSD- WesternDigital 500gb $65 PSU- 500w. $50 Case- thermaltake versa h15 $50 I want to game at ultra on a 2560x1080p monitor...
  11. Z

    [SOLVED] Bios problem on laptop

    Hello guys! So i have a Lenovo Ideapad S145-15IWL with Intel Celeron 4205U, 1.80ghz , the motherboard is LNVNB161261 and I have 8gb dd4 2666mhz. And my integrated intel graphics card 610 has only 128mb for Vram and I want to add 1024mb and I saw i can do that from bios in advanced tab, but I don...
  12. K

    [SOLVED] Looking to Increase Dedicated Video RAM

    Hey guys, on my laptop, Can I Run it Shows I don't have enough Dedicated Video RAM for certain recent games, I usually play a lot of my games in low quality. It shows I have 128 MB. Following this: https://www.techconsumerguide.com/how-to-increase-vram/#Method_2_Increase_Your_RAM Method 3...
  13. N

    Question Problems with VRAM Usage (Reprise)

    "Hello everyone. As the title says, I think I have a problem with my Vram. I've searched everywhere, but I am not able to fix it. I bought my pc a couple weeks ago, and I bought a game my little brother wanted (Monster Hunter World). I read some forums beforehand and I thought it would work...
  14. CrestHD

    Question Faulty Graphics Card, Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 Nitro+

    Hello, I've got problems with my GPU since yesterday, I've got to admit I used AMD's Wattman where I experimented with power limit to +50% the last few days. Before that I used the Turbo button to have a nice and simple overclock for about 1-2 months. I was checking temperatures constantly and...
  15. R

    [SOLVED] Games barely run or crash on startup

    So here are my stats: Intel Core I5 -4590 @ 3.30 GHz Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB 8GB DDR3 RAM Win 10 x64 So a while back I had this problem and today i decided to see if anyone here has the solution, My PC which is supposedly very high power and should be able to run most if not all games is...
  16. kalern123

    [SOLVED] 2080Ti 11GB only shows 9,3GB in red dead redemption 2

    So title says a lot actually. When changing video settings on Red Dead Redemption 2 it shows like 4GB Out of 9,3GB available on my 11gb card RTX2080ti card? My friend has the same issue, but it shows 6,7GB out of 8GB on his rtx 2080 8GB card. Is it a video card issue or game issue? I ran...
  17. S

    Question CTD and Freezing

    Back in July I upgraded my Motherboard and CPU (B450 Motherboard and a Ryzen 2700x CPU), also currently have an Asus GTX 1060 6GB and everything ran fine until about late august/early september, Some of my games, such as Arma III and Tom Clancys Division II, would CTD, Arma III was nice enough...
  18. L

    Question Why does my pc only use 32 mb of my 2 gb vram?

    Why doesnt my pc use all the vram? Its really annoying because its like it has everything and a bit more to run games like cs:go, but the only thing holding it back is the vram. Is there really no way to fix this/use all the vram? Ive tried to allocate more through adding something to a folder...
  19. D

    [SOLVED] Use system memory as dedicated gpu overhead?

    To start off, I know ddr3/4 runs at a much lower speed than Gddr5. I know that this low speed would result in stutters while in-game. I'm more interested in rendering, or blender to be more specific. My current setup is an i5 3470 (painfully slow in renders), gtx 970 3.5gb vram, 2x2 + 2x4GB...
  20. Insane Potatoz

    [SOLVED] How to increase Integrated VRAM?

    Hello everyone, I have an Acer Aspire E 15 E 5-576-392H, and was wondering if i could increase my integrated VRAM to at least 2gb, or the max amount if it's less than that. If it's possible, how can I do it? I only have 128mb as of now. Specs that might be needed: CPU: Core i3-8130U GPU: Intel...
  21. C

    [SOLVED] Weird FPS problem on my gaming laptop

    EDIT 2: ok after some research, i found out that regardless of the situation, the R7 would always be used since the display's only connected to the APU, however, during intensive task like games, the RX 460 supposedly would "come and help" with the rendering task [basically, it's not "switchable...
  22. CreativBeast

    Question 0% vram usage how to fix ?

    so i didnt played on my pc for 1 day and now when i started my pc it says i have 0% vram usage wehn i played csgo i had more than 60 or higher fps on highest settings and now with 0% vram usage i have like 5 fps on lowest setting how can i fix this ? i tried restarting the pc didnt work
  23. A

    [SOLVED] Windows 10 virtual memory reaches to max size and then system freezes, it doesnt deallocate itself

    Hello, I am using Windows 10 v1903. I have issue that I have set virtual memory to automatically manage on C drive(SSD) . After it reaches the max size i.e.28GB approx ...system starts to freeze.... Windows is able to allocate virtual memory but it is not deallocating it so whatever max size the...
  24. B

    Question Video Memory Leak

    Hey so just a disclaimer: I can build computers but i'm not too quick with the software, especially the inner workings of it, so if there are ANY tips, no matter how obvious they may seem, just plug them in for good measure so I can cover all the ground I can So I upgraded to my now GTX 1080...
  25. S

    Question 7 GB Vram 128 mb dedicated vram?vr

    So i'm just putting this for my mother with her buisiness computer cause she said some programs acted weird in a way and then making her touch pad unstable
  26. A

    [SOLVED] Is more VRAM size necessarily a good thing?

    I'm looking at an AMD RX570 for a very good price, but I don't know how it'll perform with 4GB VRAM. Will a card with more VRAM be a better choice? I'm not going to game AAA titles, just going to use Photoshop, Corel, and other graphics editing software. CPU is R5 2600 and 16GB RAM.
  27. S

    Question RX 580 8GB GPU USAGE 100% TO 0%

    Hi,people,i Have a problem with my rx 580 8gb,that is very annoying,When i play games like Devil May Cry 5 i had gpu usage drops from 100% to 0% this causes the game freezes for like 1-5seconds. My Specs are: I3 9100F 3,6GHZ(NOT OC) RX 580 8GB WD 1TB Thermaltake 500w Ram crucial ballistix 1x8...
  28. S

    Question RX 580 8GB Gpu Usage

    Hi people,I'm having issues with my GIGABYTE RX 580 8GB,the problem is that when i play any game my Gpu Usage is always 100% and my Cpu usage is on 40-50%,This makes my games feel laggy,and having some fps drops in menu,and in-game My Specs are I3 9100F RX 580 8GB GIGABYTE 1X8 BALLISTIX...
  29. Laevateinn

    Question Increasing Integrated VRAM via ASRock BIOS

    So, I was looking around in my BIOS for a bit and I saw an option to increase my VRAM. My current dedicated VRAM is 1024 and my total available graphics memory is 4573. If I increased it, would it be bad? What consequences would there be? System Info: Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Graphics...
  30. M

    Question Ram Error.

    Hy guys! (sorry my bad english) I bought a new PC and the memory doesn't work. Games and applications are crashing and some times get blue screen (MEMORY_MANAGEMENT). I downloaded the Adia64 and it 'said' the memory is the bad component, but the MemTest didn't found nothing error. In BIOS I use...
  31. Laevateinn

    Question Should I increase my VRAM and if yes by how much?

    When testing out if my new PC could run R6S, I could run it fine if I turned the settings down to low and the resolution down to 1280x720, and I saw that when I turned the resolution up to 1920x1080 my VRAM bar started to go higher. I know that I can increase my VRAM via my BIOS, but I was...
  32. N

    Question Ryzen 5 2400g has no VRAM

    Hello all, I just finished my new Ryzen 5 2400g build and everything was going fine until I started trying to dedicate some extra DRAM into VRAM (I already had 1GB and the game was running fine but I thought adding some wouldn't do any harm). To do this I added a few things into the registry...
  33. V

    Question 4gb vram enough for 3d rendering

    Does 4gb vram in Graphic card is enough for 3d rendering? Or should I go for higher vram?
  34. J

    Question RAM or VRAM or other data storage can store data to a new HDD or SSD?

    Hi! I have a question. It's possible to a malware be transferred by Ram or Gpu or BIOS to another HDD?, for ex: I change my HDD to other HDD without both connected at the same time, remove the first "possibly infected HDD" and shutdown, then add the new HDD, a malware can be transferred by BIOS...
  35. daniyalkh14

    [SOLVED] is gtx 1050 2 gb (mobile) worth it?

    Hello guys,i'm interested in buying gaming laptop , choices are limited in my country i was interested in buying laptop equiped with gtx 1050 4 gb, but i cant find any, however there are some with gtx 1050 2 gb, im worried that only 2 gb may not cut it , i ill be playing games like far cry 5...
  36. R

    Question B350 Mortar Artic VRAM light white

    Hi, My VRAM light is light white on the motherboard. It’s a brand new build and everything powers up but I get no display either. I’ve swapped out and tried different ram but still no luck. Is it the board possibly?
  37. A

    Question R5 2400G VRAM buffer size.

    So, I have the R5 2400G, and when I set the VRAM buffer lower than 1GB, I get blurry textures in some games (Fortnite, COD WW2 etc). Is there a way to fix it?
  38. B

    Info (SOLVED) Overheating Oil on VRAM - XFX RX 480 GTR Overheating Issue

    Hey guys, any time I find a bizarre solution, I'm going to start posting here to help others out. Alright so today I got in two used XFX RX 480 8GB GTR's, which are supposed to be fairly high quality as far as the 400 series goes. So I go to put these cards into gaming rigs and both of them...
  39. TStahler

    Question Help Picking Out Graphics Card

    Hello, I am looking to buy the best graphics card for me but I am kind of hard pressed deciding which of these is the best decision. I am coming from an AMD Radeon R9 295x2 GPU. My current setup is as follows. Key System Specs CPU 9900K Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master Motherboard 32GB (16GBx2)...
  40. S

    Question Graphical Artifacts across all games/Lack of VRAM Usage in all games

    So I've been having this issue that's shown in this video I'm linking here. I don't even know what to call this issue. I've read a bit about others having it, but no real solution. I decided to download CAM so that I could measure my PC Hardware while playing any games. I noticed that in every...