Nvidia does not assign all memory ??

[D_ManXX2]

After checking this topic i have seen something about this mentioned:

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/2750-world-of-whorecraft/page-12#entry580088

 

But my Nvidia is 2 gig card but it seem to only allocate 1 gig to my video card that does not seem right , how do i fix this ??

 

Total memory:    2798 MB

Allocated video memory:1024 MB GDDR5

Shared with system:    1774 MB

 

How do i make it so allocated is full 2798 like it meant to be ??

[canderes]

That unallocated memory is your ram and it is like 100 times slower than what is actually on the card; you don't want to use it and if you are using a dekstop I suggest you put an actual video card on the motherboard than use the piece of junk that is embedded on the board. I hope your not trying to game on a laptop.

[D_ManXX2]

What do you mean? This is an nvidea card not onboard videocard.it is an Geforce GTX 560 TI with 2 gig of memory.

[Dragonjoe69]

That unallocated memory is your ram and it is like 100 times slower than what is actually on the card; you don't want to use it and if you are using a dekstop I suggest you put an actual video card on the motherboard than use the piece of junk that is embedded on the board. I hope your not trying to game on a laptop.

 

what the hell is wrong with a lap top? mine preformed well considering it had a shitty processor, and a 512 mb integrated card, it ran skyrim with 70+ plugins, also the pos intregated cards can perform well as long as you don't load an excessive amount of shit for a high end card. lol I have more performance issues with my 2 gig dedicated external card in my tower

 

[sora3]

You can't. Nvidia's drivers usually do that for you instead as if you try and write to the ENTIRE memory manually, then you will run into trouble quite easily.

[D_ManXX2]

So i guess is shouldn't worry then ?? looked a but strange having 2700 mb and only 1024 set for video-card and remainder used for system. I already have system memory did not need more.

[...0...]

Get AMD much better...nah just kidding

[LordJerle]

Windows Vista + reserves video memory for certain stuff like themes.  

[Rayblue]

Also, there's discrete (GPU has its own dedicated video memory) and then there's shared (i.e. nVidia's Turbocache, AMD's Hypermemory), which the latter will eat into a portion of your system RAM.

[Lagoon0654]

Also, there's discrete (GPU has its own dedicated video memory) and then there's shared (i.e. nVidia's Turbocache, AMD's Hypermemory), which the latter will eat into a portion of your system RAM.

 

*takes note*

[canderes]

Go to bios and disable your onboard video. I don't see why it would do that unless you don't have enough ram for the video card to use. I use the same card as you (560ti 2gb) and I have all my 7.99/8gb of memory available. You mind posting the exact model you have? Sounds really odd. I'm running xp though, so it could be the os you have withholding resources.

[sora3]

I think people are getting confused so I might just simplify it a bit.

 

Most graphics card uses onboard RAM on the card itself. Usually, you'll see this as black squares when you look at a card. This is what the graphics use locally so the driver allocates to this memory first. NEVER EVER EVER try and force the memory allocation yourself since you are dealing with very specific areas and allotments which is very very bad.

 

After this, you have the main system memory or better known as RAM for your computer. Windows along with the drivers usually associate this IF you have two things. The first is Windows Vista and up. The reason is that Vista onwards counts your graphics RAM as part of the RAM of the computer. Confusing right? But that's how the new code works. Secondly, you have a Windows specific driver that allows Windows to write into the RAM. Usually, Windows only uses this RAM IF THE RAM ON YOUR GRAPHICS IS BLOODY FULL. Get it so far? So all the memory terms like HyperMemory, TurboCache, etc all use your RAM for that purpose. Windows XP users don't have this, only if the graphics SPECIFY Hypermemory, TurboCache, etc, then this uses the system RAM.

 

The final and slowest memory is actually on your Windows HDD. It is simply called cache in which everyone uses this for emergencies such as saving that error log when shit hits the fan.

[deathparade]

Sounds like 32-bit to me

[LordJerle]

Sounds like 32-bit to me

 

o.O 70 degrees?  You don't maintain your PC very well, do you?

[D_ManXX2]

Why ?? 70 is not that high, these card can sustain over 90 to 120 degrees on constant load.

 

Go to bios and disable your onboard video. I don't see why it would do that unless you don't have enough ram for the video card to use. I use the same card as you (560ti 2gb) and I have all my 7.99/8gb of memory available. You mind posting the exact model you have? Sounds really odd. I'm running xp though, so it could be the os you have withholding resources.

 

My Onboard video card is already off. My OS is windows 7 64 bit.

The model is a GeForce GTX 560 TI 2 Gig Palit 3d Graphics Engine

 

Is this what you mean ??

[deathparade]

100 degrees Celsius i think

And this is on heavy load (Mining Litecoin)

Edit: This is also the EVGA GTX 660 SC so it's slightly overclocked

[LordJerle]

My card's overclocked and I've never seen a temp log with it past 40...

Of course, I have a sweet liquid cooling setup.  You might look into it.  A decent one for AMD processors costs around 100-120, is pretty easy to set up, and is more energy efficient than your average gaming heatsink.

[deathparade]

Yea this is a fan
I wanted to go for a GTX 770 ACX
Don't really like AMD drivers

[LordJerle]

Yea this is a fan

I wanted to go for a GTX 770 ACX

Don't really like AMD drivers

 

I use NVidia for my card.  I don't do ATI.  Their software is shit, but the processors are badass.

[sora3]

@LordJerie, please stop flinging crap when you don't know crap. I've had BOTH nVidia and AMD cards throughout my desktop builds and NEVER had any issue with EITHER. There's the main point. I've had both cards, ranging from the Geforce 2 all to the way to the GTX780 and as well the R9 290X. Thus far, AMD has caught up relatively well to nVidia in regards to stability.

[LordJerle]

@LordJerie, please stop flinging crap when you don't know crap. I've had BOTH nVidia and AMD cards throughout my desktop builds and NEVER had any issue with EITHER. There's the main point. I've had both cards, ranging from the Geforce 2 all to the way to the GTX780 and as well the R9 290X. Thus far, AMD has caught up relatively well to nVidia in regards to stability.

 

Can you launch OpenGL games without third party drivers?  No?  Shut up.

[Mogie56]

Can you No so you shut up. stop trolling.

[LordJerle]

Can you No so you shut up. stop trolling.

 

It's not trolling if it's true.  I've been building PC's for about 16 years now, and I've been gaming since I was old enough to put an atari controller in my mouth.  ATI's lack of proper software side support for certain rendering systems is well documented, as well as the numerous third party fixes to fix ATI's "whoops, we forgots"  I'm sorry that I believe that every game should work with the disk out of the box without third party help, maybe I'm just picky.

[sora3]

 

@LordJerie, please stop flinging crap when you don't know crap. I've had BOTH nVidia and AMD cards throughout my desktop builds and NEVER had any issue with EITHER. There's the main point. I've had both cards, ranging from the Geforce 2 all to the way to the GTX780 and as well the R9 290X. Thus far, AMD has caught up relatively well to nVidia in regards to stability.

 

Can you launch OpenGL games without third party drivers?  No?  Shut up.

 

 

Doom 3, DOTA 2, America's Army, FEZ, Homeworld 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (both 1 and 2), Trine (1 and 2)  and UT 2004 all launch fine. Anything else you want me to test so that I can prove you wrong?

[LordJerle]

*launch fine* 
Quick search

754,000 results say otherwise.

I'm sure if I changed the words, I'd get more results, but in my years of experience, ATI and OpenGL don't get along well.  Missing textures, flashing textures, warped meshes, deformed meshes, all problems I have never gotten with nVidia cards.