is it bad to use more vram than your rig has?

[sidneymsi77]

See above

[Candy_Licker]

Not for me. I'm 100-200 mb above vram and it doesn't impact performance noticeably. A bit over the limit seems to be fine.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Candy_Licker

[oaoso]

Only if it impacts your performance and even then its not "bad", its just telling you to lower the settings. The bar/meter in GTA V is only a guide. If you go above green the game's coding thinks that your performance may drop. If you have 8 GB or more of RAM in your machine, then don't worry about it. I'm pushing a full GB over the bar and have had no performances issues at all and that includes temperatures (CPU/GPU) and voltages. Both of those have stayed relatively the same for me on higher settings.

 

Your PC will tell you if your settings are too high b/c the game will run like crap. FPS will lag, worst case scenario crash the game. The green part of the meter is meant to indicate that shouldnt happen with the current settings, if you go over its telling you that it could. I've been over the "limit" and in the red for 12 out of 15 hours played and have had 0 issues. In other games without a meter, if you push the settings too high for your rig, the game tells you by performing bad. The meter in GTA is a way to try and visually show you without playing around. It's not harmful to go over.

 

Experiment with it and find the best fit for you.

Edited April 15, 2015 by oaoso

[Wybo76]

NVidia optimized settings for me are 400MB above what i realy have. I think they know how it works, so i think it is not a problem.

While playing i have no problems either. (60Hz)

Edited April 15, 2015 by Wybo76

[sivispacem]

It doesn't seem to let me select settings in game that exceed my physical VRAM.

 

But that's clearly because I missed the button letting me disable it like an idiot.

[K20]

i only have 2gb in my SLI config, but below is what its available and using, using 1GB more than available [and available is also wrong]

 

i have no idea why its doing that, nvidia optimised settings as well. but everything works perfect. i think its okay if nvidia settings are used.

 

[PittDawg]

I couldn't save my setting when I went past my 2gb limit, it told me they had to be changed.

[UnderMeister]

I couldn't save my setting when I went past my 2gb limit, it told me they had to be changed.

You need to Ignore Suggested Limits, it's on top of the options.

Edited April 15, 2015 by UnderMeister

[Laqueesha]

I keep mine underneath my maximum VRAM. If I increase it, I get stuttering. But, underneath my maximum VRAM, I get smooth FPS.

[Loman]

2.6Ghz Core 2 Quad (OCed to 3.2ghz), 8GB DDR2 800, Geforce 550TI. I have my graphics at about 2500, which is TWICE the recommended limit for my system (most things on 'normal", but textures/reflections/water/ maybe more on ultra), it runs fine and looks stunning, with a tiny bit of stuttering in heavy action, otherwise I get ~25FPS. (which isn't great, by most people's standards, but compared to my rig at the time vs the other GTAPCs at the time of their release, it is about average for me)

 

I did smell something burning inside my pc, but I think it was just dust, so I cleaned it, lol

Edited April 16, 2015 by Loman

[RageDev]

Use GPU-Z to monitor realtime VRAM usage.

[nilz45]

You could always try to push the games above the VRAM, you will notice when it too much, in most cases you will get annoying stutter. Anti Alieasing is using VRAM, it's a good suggestion to lower AA instead of graphic options.

[Iash91]

I can push the game from high to very high over the recommended limit with barely and fps drops. The only issue I find I'm having (this is online only, haven't tried SP) is when I enter a new area like the countryside or the desert, fps drops to about 10 while it loads the area. It lasts from 5 seconds up to a minute. My friend said it could be memory leak, but to be honest, I have no idea what that is.

 

 

However, alt tabbing sometimes makes this issue appear as well, but I just suck it up cause the games pretty.

[Nikozombie]

I fixed the fps drops in countryside by lowering the quality of the grass from ultra to very high

[Iash91]

I fixed the fps drops in countryside by lowering the quality of the grass from ultra to very high

Was yours the same issue where the fps drop would only last a little bit, or was it a continuous fps drop

[KatanaDV20]

I ignored the limits from the moment I got this game on PC. Im way over the limit but the game looks and runs brilliantly

[oCrapaCreeper]

Your computer won't explode but as a general rule, games will stutter a noticeable amount of they need to fallback to using RAM if there's no VRAM left. The game would prefer not to swap between the two types of ram. A few 100 MB over probably won't hurt much but don't try going at 4 GB worth of video options if your card is only 2 GB.

Edited August 9, 2015 by oCrapaCreeper

[Spider-Vice]

The game will always stutter a lot if it needs to fall back to RAM because RAM is a lot slower than VRAM, it just depends on how much data falls back to RAM. My GTA V settings are currently at around 1100 MB and my VRAM is 1024 MB, there's no issue but if I crank the textures up to high (making it use around 1500 MB), then well, rest in peace performance. Not that the FPS is low, but it needs to swap a lot.