Bios says "nope, i not having that"

[Arjmaj]

Well, first, english is not my first language so apologys for mi typing.

Tight your seatbelts because this is LONG (and i have no idea how to condense more, as i said, its not my first languange, and i learned alone).

 

I have a problem with mi bios, or S.O, idk. I bought my "low budget gaming" pc. It has 2x8GB of DDR4 2400Mhz (stock, for now), my Ryzen 5 2400G, 240GB of M.2 storage and a single HDD (rescued from an old notebook, 320GB). Power supply 650 Watts 80 Plus Silver (i don't remember the brand, but is full modular). The motherboard is the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 (with the lastest bios F31).

 

I bought the X4 Foundations, and with the out of the box configurations in my bios the game doesn't lauch. Nope, nothing.

I went to the "chipset" options in the bios, all was set to automatic, and putting only 1GB of "dedicated" Vram.

I changed the "automatic" option and set to "force" the integrated GPU, new options, great. Set the "UMA Mode" from "Automatic" to "UMA Fixed", new option, at this point, AMAZING (new technology to me, so i was a little scared and not sure what to do really). Set the "Frame Buffer Size to "2G"" (it ranges from "64MB" to "16G", i assume is GB).

GREAT, the game is playable.... until.... CTD after more or less 1 hour of playing it. Game reported "not enough memory available". I went to the "dxdiag" and see 2GB of Vram, and nearly 8GB of shared memory. After diving in the rabbithole turns out that the game is forbid to use the shared memory as per the devs. OOOOKAY... go to the bios, changed "2G" to "4G" in the "Frame Buffer Size" (minimum for the game from the posted specs is 3GB of Vram), save and exit.

 

Windows start, i go straight to the game, half our later, CTD AGAIN!. At this point i'm fuming. Go to "dxdiag" again. WHAT?, 2GB of "dedicated Vram", same as before, same shared memory and everything. Go to Bios again, and start changing to "8G", same, "16G", same. Go to "1G", windows take that (insert confused face here). Went again, changed to "512MB", windows take that. Is the same across all selections. From "64MB" up until "2G", it's functioning, after that, nothing, only stays at "2GB of dedicated memory".

Windows is sometimes stupid reporting information about the sistem, so i RAN EVERYTHING. GPU-Z, check. AIDA64, check. Unigine Valley, check. Uningine Heaven, check.

Overclocking tools (from gigabyte all the way down to ryzenmaster), check.

All reports 2GB of "dedicated" Vram.

 

Anyone has a comment on this? same problem? or it's just me?. Another settings to modify in the bios?

I have installed my copy of windows without UEFI, that is said, to enter the bios i don't have to go through the options in windows to acces it. ¿Maybe thats the problem?

I searched for all day (it's my day off), and i have not came across anything like my problem and at this point, im out of options. This is why this post.

 

Thanks, and have a great day you all.

[191x7]

For your English, using Grammarly in your browser would help.

 

For the problem - sadly, the only real solution is a dedicated video card.

[Arjmaj]

18 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

For your English, using Grammarly in your browser would help.

 

For the problem - sadly, the only real solution is a dedicated video card.

Well... my browser is in entirely spanish, if i install the english version for correct grammar (i tried one time) it would mess up everything (typing in spanish will cause auto-corrects to english and vice-versa). And right now is 4.17 AM sooo... im going to bed right now. Maybe try something else tomorrow with this.

 

I see it coming from miles, but... average wage here is 25K per month, 1 US dollar will be 50 bucks here... doing the math, it's more or less 500 US dollars per month... the ATI RX560 4GB cost arround 15K here, arround 300 US dollars... i save a year to build this pc. I don't have the money to spare for a graphics card... between the taxes (because my country really like taxes on everything), the money for the rent, services (electricity, gas, ABL (-Alumbrado, Barrido y Limpieza- "street lights, swept and cleaning", no one does that and street lights broke and no one repairs it, but you still have to pay it, because my country), water bills, and more), food, clothing, etc., i have no means to buy a card... this pc cost me so much, putting in US dollars, this pc, here, cost arround 3000K.

Sorry for this taking too long, but the point is, buying a dedicated graphics card is out of question, nope, or else i need to eat rice for the next 4 months to be able to save enough, and with the enconomy here, when i get the money, probably it will cost me another 2 months of savings.