Farcry 5 not using enough VRAM/Memory

[Asillyhat]

So I was recently gifted FC5 by a friend, and had no prior issues with playing the game on an old account. However FC5 uses barely any VRAM, only 400 at best. My laptop has 32 GB of ram in total, I will list my specs below.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Radeon Graphics
32 GB Memory/RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
AMD Radeon Graphics

[Asillyhat]

by 400 I meant in MB, not GB. Every game including other ubisoft titles like Rainbow Six Siege run perfectly for me, but FC5 just does not and I cannot figure out why.

[findioth8r]

When you go into the FC5 settings and look at video, what does it say at the bottom where the VRAM is displayed? For example, mine's a low-end gaming only so it says something like VRAM 2.66/7.82.

[Asillyhat]

for me it says 2000/400

[Steve64b]

I'm guessing the game is using your onboard Radeon RX Vega 7 GPU instead of the GeForce GTX 1650.

You may need to edit the %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 5\GamerProfile.xml file, and set GPU="0" to GPU="1" (or vice versa).

[I Am Groot]

Originally posted by P_ng:

So I was recently gifted FC5 by a friend, and had no prior issues with playing the game on an old account. However FC5 uses barely any VRAM, only 400 at best. My laptop has 32 GB of ram in total, I will list my specs below.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Radeon Graphics
32 GB Memory/RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
AMD Radeon Graphics

VRAM is NOT RAM

[stealthy]

Im pretty sure that the GTX 1650 for laptops has 4GB of VRAM. So that would be your VRAM amount. Its also important to mention that (like some people already said) VRAM isnt the same thing as RAM. In fact, its a huge difference.

Besides that for me its almost the opposite. when im running far cry 5 on my rtx 4070ti with 12 GB of vram, my GPU is using almost 12gb of it. RAM usage is around 15 GB. (im playing on ultra with HD textures and 1440p, and getting around 100fps).

But it might very well be possible that you are using your CPUs integrated graphic unit and not your main GPU. Which would explain the abysmal amount of available vram and poor ingame performance.

[Asillyhat]

Originally posted by stealthy:

Im pretty sure that the GTX 1650 for laptops has 4GB of VRAM. So that would be your VRAM amount. Its also important to mention that (like some people already said) VRAM isnt the same thing as RAM. In fact, its a huge difference.

Besides that for me its almost the opposite. when im running far cry 5 on my rtx 4070ti with 12 GB of vram, my GPU is using almost 12gb of it. RAM usage is around 15 GB. (im playing on ultra with HD textures and 1440p, and getting around 100fps).

But it might very well be possible that you are using your CPUs integrated graphic unit and not your main GPU. Which would explain the abysmal amount of available vram and poor ingame performance.

I switched to my high performance nvidia processor with the same result, but instead i got 2GB/3GB but still poor speed even at the lowest, this has never happened at all until now.

[Icedfate]

: buys denuvo infected game. .

: complains about poor performance. .

[Asillyhat]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

: buys denuvo infected game. .

: complains about poor performance. .

>thinks i bought it
read the post buddy