games use graphic ram or pc ram?

[vicnes105]

Don't know where to post this, so ill post here.when i play dota/any full screen game, does it uses the vram from the graphic card or is it combine usage of pc ram and graphic card ram? take as the game shows 900mb usage of ram in my task manager. is it from the graphic ram or pc ram? my graphic card is 750 TI. im guessing it uses the graphic ram when playing since my graphic ram is 2048mb. but when it loads a map it uses the pc ram. Am i correct?

 

[rhysiam]

Games will use portions of both your VRAM and System RAM. The Task manager reports system RAM. You need a program like GPU-Z to report VRAM usage.

 

[mcnumpty23]

it uses both

if you use msi afterburner with riva statistics you can onscreen display the ram and graphics card ram use

along with a load of other things

 

[vicnes105]

i see. its because my another computer only uses ddr2 ram and only have 2gb, i am having so much graphic lag when i play full screen games on that pc. i thought if i could at least get a graphic card that has 1gb vram, the pc will use the vram instead for the game . that pc is using internal graphics. planning to just get a 650ti for it. will it make a big difference?

 

[Moraito]

Well, since you are using the integrated graphics on that PC, yes they are using your system RAM (there is no Vram in that system so they share the RAM resource both graphics and CPU). SO most probably yes, using a dedicated graphic card will improve your fps by a decent margin.

 

[rhysiam]

i see. its because my another computer only uses ddr2 ram and only have 2gb, i am having so much graphic lag when i play full screen games on that pc. i thought if i could at least get a graphic card that has 1gb vram, the pc will use the vram instead for the game . that pc is using internal graphics. planning to just get a 650ti for it. will it make a big difference?

Yes, it will make a big difference, but that's not really because of the RAM. It will almost entirely because a dedicated graphics card is far, far more powerful than any integrated graphics that came with any CPU back in the DDR2 era.

A 650ti would likely make a significant difference. Still, it must be a very old machine to use DDR2 RAM, and 2GB isn't much, even with a dedicated card. It would probably handle things like CS:Go and LoL just fine. But don't expect it to handle anything much more demanding than that.