How to increase DedicatedVideoMemory??

[Barry]

How to increase VRAM?? I have 8GB RAM and when i check how much vram i have it saids i only have 128 DedicatedVideoMemory . how to increase it??

And btw.
Total Available Graphics Memory:4181 MB

PLEASE CLOSE

[Omega]

You can not increase Vram.

What are your system specs?

[Barry]

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

You can not increase Vram.

What are your system specs?

Yes you can.

Windows 10 64bit
8 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 -5005u @2.00Ghz
Nvidia Geforce 920m

[tacoshy]

Sounds like an iGPU...

But yes, you can't increase VRAM.

Do you have a laptop? In that case there is nothing you can do beside a new PC

If you have a desktop then get a dedicated GPU or if you already have one, connect the monitor to the GPU instead of the Motherboard.

[Barry]

Oh wait crap i meant DedicatedVideoMemory how do you increase it??

[tacoshy]

Publicado originalmente por Phantasm:

Oh wait crap i meant DedicatedVideoMemory how do you increase it??

Dedicated video memory is VRAM... It physically soldered to the graphics card PCB next to the GPU

[Omega]

Publicado originalmente por Phantasm:

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

You can not increase Vram.

What are your system specs?

Yes you can.

Windows 10 64bit
8 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 -5005u @2.00Ghz
Nvidia Geforce 920m

No you can not.

Your Nvidia GPU can have up to 4gb of dedicated Vram. This can not be increased, unless you have a soldering iron, the 4gb limit has not yet been met and the mobo has room for it.

The Intel HD doesn't have any Vram and uses the System RAM instead, this can be increased but increasing it is useless since the system will dump everything that does not fit within the set allocated RAM limit in to the system RAM anyway.


The 128mb you are seeing is the Intel HD and the 4181mb is the Nvidia.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

Publicado originalmente por Phantasm:

Yes you can.

Windows 10 64bit
8 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 -5005u @2.00Ghz
Nvidia Geforce 920m

No you can not.

Your Nvidia GPU can have up to 4gb of dedicated Vram. This can not be increased, unless you have a soldering iron, the 4gb limit has not yet been met and the mobo has room for it.

The Intel HD doesn't have any Vram and uses the System RAM instead, this can be increased but increasing it is useless since the system will dump everything that does not fit within the set allocated RAM limit in to the system RAM anyway.


The 128mb you are seeing is the Intel HD and the 4181mb is the Nvidia.

hes probably seeing the Shared video memory of his 8GB RAM which would be 4GB, that GPU is only 1GB or 2GB VRAM at the most, unlikely a 920m would be 4GB VRAM.

[Omega]

Publicado originalmente por ☥ - CJ -:

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

No you can not.

Your Nvidia GPU can have up to 4gb of dedicated Vram. This can not be increased, unless you have a soldering iron, the 4gb limit has not yet been met and the mobo has room for it.

The Intel HD doesn't have any Vram and uses the System RAM instead, this can be increased but increasing it is useless since the system will dump everything that does not fit within the set allocated RAM limit in to the system RAM anyway.


The 128mb you are seeing is the Intel HD and the 4181mb is the Nvidia.

hes probably seeing the Shared video memory of his 8GB RAM which would be 4GB, that GPU is only 1GB or 2GB VRAM at the most

There are various models of the 920m. I think Nvidia allows the manufacturers to add as much RAM as they want to, the GPU spec sheets on the Nvidia website says 'Up to 4gb'.

This extra video RAM is meant for content creation, high definition video playback/streaming etc.. not for gaming.

[[☥] - CJ -]

While thats a possibility
Its the whole "Total Available Graphics Memory" bit which leads me to believe hes talking about Shared Memory

But yeah, with a GPU so weak theres no way to make it any better for gaming.

[Buck]

Shared memory is tunable for the CPU's IGPU (Integrated GPU), not the dedicated NVIDIA Mobile CPU which has it's own dedicated VRAM.

[tacoshy]

well shared memory for an iGPU is sueless as it will auto tune/ auto access DRAM anyways. Beside the obvios fact that you dont want to sue the iGPU when ahving a dedicated GPU in the first place.

[InfinityJosh]

You can allocate space from RAM to VRAM.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You can't increase ANY VRAM, period, end of discussions.

And Windows is always wrong about ALL VRAM #s

Only the # for "Dedicated" is in fact real.

Shared is meaningless. If your GPU shares RAM, things will become so slow that FPS will drop big time. You never want this to occur, period.

It doesn't really matter what the available RAM is for the Intel GPU; for anything D3D/OGL/Vulkan you want to use the NVIDIA GPU, which has it's own dedicated video memory (aka VRAM)

Wipe your Intel HD Graphics and NVIDIA Graphics Drivers out fully.

Go download the latest for:
> Intel Chipset INF
> Intel HD Graphics 5500
> NVIDIA > Geforce > 9xxM series (M = Mobile version) > OS version...

Then install these one by one, rebooting after each completes.

When done all 3 of these and rebooted after the NVIDIA is complete.

Launch NVIDIA Control Panel > go to Manage 3D Settings > change these...
> Power Management = Prefer Max Performance
> Max pre-rendered frames = 1
> Threaded = On
> VSync = Off

And for the "Graphics" = Auto > Change this to High Performance
in order to ensure the NVIDIA is always used by default whenever you launch an app/game that's driven by DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan

[DruggedBunny]

You need to download more ram.

[IceFoxX]

Publicado originalmente por tacoshy:

Sounds like an iGPU...

But yes, you can't increase VRAM.

Do you have a laptop? In that case there is nothing you can do beside a new PC

If you have a desktop then get a dedicated GPU or if you already have one, connect the monitor to the GPU instead of the Motherboard.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥....you cant tell it generally...look cards with maybe 4gb unlocked but physically 8gb...
So with some cards you can unlock it with bios flashing...
Of course its not increasing physically..