Only 3.44gb ram usable on a 4gb ram laptop with win 10 64bit

[Knightdroid250]

how to fix this?My laptop is the Nitro 5 ryzen 5 with rx 560x, I just bought this last week and why am I still laging when playing league of legends?I mean I only have 4gb ram but I can play lol on other pc with a core 2 quad and also have only 4gb ram with no lag.(I dont open any tab except lol when playing)

[Morgan MLGman]

I have the same laptop. Are you certain that the game runs on the RX 560X and not the Vega 8? I've had some issues with the drivers not detecting the load properly. I had to force the OS to use the dGPU instead of iGPU for some games.

It's probably less than 4GB of usable RAM because the iGPU needs some memory for itself as well.

Also, which graphics driver are you using? The latest AMD generic driver or the last one available from Acer that was an OEM driver?

[Stormseeker9]

4GB of ram to play a game and run Windows.. good luck

[Knightdroid250]

4 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I have the same laptop. Are you certain that the game runs on the RX 560X and not the Vega 8? I've had some issues with the drivers not detecting the load properly. I had to force the OS to use the dGPU instead of iGPU for some games.

It's probably less than 4GB of usable RAM because the iGPU needs some memory for itself as well.

Also, which graphics driver are you using? The latest AMD generic driver or the last one available from Acer that was an OEM driver?

I installed the driver for the video card on the amd website

[Deuxez]

Im pretty sure the game ISNT running on the rx 560 and instead on the cpu's own integrated grapichs. You can launch a game with the right grapichs by right clicking the desktop shortcut, go to "run with grapichs proccesor" (rough translation) and then selecting the rx 560 or "HIGH performance AMD" (or something like that)

 

EDIT: this wont work if it got a launcher, like STEAM, origin or battle.net, but any game within those SHOULD start with the rx560. 

[Knightdroid250]

9 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

4GB of ram to play a game and run Windows.. good luck

Im guessing u dont play this game.but thanks anyway

[Knightdroid250]

1 minute ago, DankDeuxez said:

Im pretty sure the game ISNT running on the rx 560 and instead on the cpu's own integrated grapichs. You can launch a game with the right grapichs by right clicking the desktop shortcut, go to "run with grapichs proccesor" (rough translation) and then selecting the rx 560 or "HIGH performance AMD" (or something like that)

i'll try that thanks

[Deuxez]

1 minute ago, Knightdroid250 said:

i'll try that thanks

Note that if this do work. There are other ways of makin sure the game launches with the right grapichs, as this method i mention has its flaws. One of those flaws is that everytime you want to launch the game you have to do it again and again and again, everytime you launch it you have to launch the same way (aka right click and selecting right gpu). 

[Knightdroid250]

Just now, DankDeuxez said:

Note that if this do work. There are other ways of makin sure the game launches with the right grapichs, as this method i mention has its flaws. One of those flaws is that everytime you want to launch the game you have to do it again and again and again, everytime you launch it you have to launch the same way (aka right click and selecting right gpu). 

Then what should I do?

[Deuxez]

8 minutes ago, Knightdroid250 said:

Then what should I do?

you should be able to set the default gpu to use in the amd settings. right click on the desktop and select AMD controlpanel (or anything related to AMD). Just look around and see if you can find anything stating which gpu to use as default. IF it happens to have the rx560 as default, from what i know there arent any fix to it, other than launching it by right clicking it etc.

[Morgan MLGman]

26 minutes ago, DankDeuxez said:

Im pretty sure the game ISNT running on the rx 560 and instead on the cpu's own integrated grapichs. You can launch a game with the right grapichs by right clicking the desktop shortcut, go to "run with grapichs proccesor" (rough translation) and then selecting the rx 560 or "HIGH performance AMD" (or something like that)

 

EDIT: this wont work if it got a launcher, like STEAM, origin or battle.net, but any game within those SHOULD start with the rx560. 

 

25 minutes ago, Knightdroid250 said:

i'll try that thanks

AMD Switchable Graphics settings don't always work properly, but I know what does (I had that issue myself). Type into the Windows search bar "Graphics Settings" and you'll get a settings window that allows you to browse for a game .exe file and choose whether you want it to run on Power saving or High Performance, with the latter being the dedicated RX 560X.

Interesting thing though - integrated Vega 8 should be perfectly capable of running League of Legends. So you shouldn't be seeing bad performance, maybe not ideal but not bad at 1080p. You need to determine which GPU is being used and what's the load on it. Is it loaded to 98-100%?

EDIT: Also, you can create a custom power plan for gaming that always forces usage of the RX 560X instead of the iGPU, but the drawback is that even desktop and browser content is being rendered by the RX 560X if you do that so it increases power consumption. I'd only use that for gaming.

[JoostinOnline]

31 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

4GB of ram to play a game and run Windows.. good luck

That meets the recommended requirements.

[RoseLuck462]

Are you running AntiVirus software?

[Knightdroid250]

12 hours ago, RoseLuck462 said:

Are you running AntiVirus software?

Only windows defender