Tom.D.16 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Hi, GTA recently deleted my graphics settings so I reset them. However, I noticed it only gives me I think 2048MB of space to use. Is this based upon PC RAM? My computer has 16GB of RAM with AMD R9 graphics. I really don't know much about computers, hense the reason I'm asking, but shouldn't it give me more memory space in the game? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchx9 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Video memory is what you see. Once the video memory is used up, your graphics card will begin using the much slower system ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom.D.16 Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Video memory is what you see. Once the video memory is used up, your graphics card will begin using the much slower system ram. Okay thanks, so would it help deleting some games off my PC, freeing up video memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchx9 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) Video memory is what you see. Once the video memory is used up, your graphics card will begin using the much slower system ram. Okay thanks, so would it help deleting some games off my PC, freeing up video memory? No. Lower your graphics settings enough so you don't exceed the amount of free video memory available on your video card. There are two graphs, the left one indicates the amount of memory that possibly will used depending on the graphics settings being used. Edited December 22, 2015 by stretchx9 Tom.D.16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom.D.16 Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 Okay Thank you very much! stretchx9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfOfAKebab Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Video memory is what you see. Once the video memory is used up, your graphics card will begin using the much slower system ram. Okay thanks, so would it help deleting some games off my PC, freeing up video memory? RAM (or Random-Access Memory), video memory (or VRAM, or video RAM) and storage are three very different types of memory. RAM is used for keeping things such as your ammo, your location and your money. VRAM is RAM specifically used for things like the models of cars and the terrain textures. Storage is where your files are kept. They're all independent from each other, so deleting files doesn't free up any VRAM or RAM, it only frees up storage space . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danoded Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 RAM is your system memory. VRAM is your graphics card memory. Your system memory is more than enough to play GTA V with, but your R9 graphics card (which I'm guessing is either a 270 or 270X) only has 2GB of VRAM (2048 MB to be exact). When you increase the fidelity of the game by increasing settings such as texture quality, resolution, shadow quality etc. this will cause more of your VRAM to be used up. However, the limits imposed by R* are only guidelines. If you go over your VRAM by a small amount, this will have no adverse effect on your gameplay as the VRAM stated in the settings does not equal the VRAM that is actually usd when playing the game. You can go over your VRAM by around 300MB over the limit, but will not affect your graphics card in anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlaringFiddle Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Video memory is what you see. Once the video memory is used up, your graphics card will begin using the much slower system ram. its even worse than the system ram being slower (it is slower, but not by a terrible amount) ... when it starts using system ram it has to transfer info in and out of video ram via the orders of magnitude slower PCIe bus ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchx9 Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 (edited) " but will not effect your graphics card in any way " It depends on what data the GPU pages to RAM. All GPU's swap data to RAM once the physical VRAM limit is exceeded. Some GPU's allocate less frequently used data to be paged first and the effect is not really noticeable in FPS. If frame buffer data starts getting swapped to RAM you will profoundly notice it. Edited December 24, 2015 by stretchx9 BlaringFiddle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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