Questions about GPU memory usage

[IJuanTM]

Hi i've a question about my GPU usage. I was playing some games and realized some stutters that I've naver had before. Frames would drop to 40fps while last week and before I got 100+ and almost never any drops, certainly not as low as 40. Now then I looked at my task manager and saw this:

 

 

Only 1.7Gb of dedicated GPU memory is being used from the 6gb I have. While it is running on 90%+ usage. Is this normal? Or am I doing something wrong here. I have quite a bit of knowledge about computers, but have never really looked into GPU's and such. Only the recommended OC that I can select from GPU Tweak-II the gpu drivers from ASUS.

 

I hope someone can help me with this. Would be much appriciated!

 

- IJuan

[Darkimane]

Have You Updated / Installed Any Drivers For Your Gpu Within The Last Week Or Two?

 

There Could Be A Bug In The Drivers That You Installed If You Have Installed Them That Is.

[IJuanTM]

1 minute ago, DaRk X Mines said:

Have You Updated / Installed Any Drivers For Your Gpu Within The Last Week Or Two?

 

There Could Be A Bug In The Drivers That You Installed If You Have Installed Them That Is.

yes I have. And saw there was another one just released. Will try to download and install that one. Maybe it will fix it.

[IJuanTM]

7 minutes ago, DaRk X Mines said:

Have You Updated / Installed Any Drivers For Your Gpu Within The Last Week Or Two?

 

There Could Be A Bug In The Drivers That You Installed If You Have Installed Them That Is.

I got a bluescreen when installing the latest Nvidia Geforce Drivers... Any ideas on that? seems like they did install but it just bluescreened once it was done..

[Darkimane]

Try Restarting, The Old And New Drivers May Be Clashing, If So You May Need To Install DDU To Clear Out All The Old Drivers So You Can Get A Fresh Install Of The New Ones.

 

(If You Cant Get Any Video Out At All From The Gpu You May Need To Use Your Integrated Graphics Just To Clear And Reset The Drivers. If Its Windows Blue Screening, Try Booting Into Safe Mode.

[Zando_]

8 minutes ago, DaRk X Mines said:

Try Restarting, The Old And New Drivers May Be Clashing, If So You May Need To Install DDU To Clear Out All The Old Drivers So You Can Get A Fresh Install Of The New Ones.

 

(If You Cant Get Any Video Out At All From The Gpu You May Need To Use Your Integrated Graphics Just To Clear And Reset The Drivers. If Its Windows Blue Screening, Try Booting Into Safe Mode.

Please Never Type Like This My Eyes Are Dying And I'm Going To Walk Out In Front Of A Truck. 

[IJuanTM]

17 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Please Never Type Like This My Eyes Are Dying And I'm Going To Walk Out In Front Of A Truck. 

I Totally Agree With You. This Is Very Annoying.

[IJuanTM]

26 minutes ago, DaRk X Mines said:

Try Restarting, The Old And New Drivers May Be Clashing, If So You May Need To Install DDU To Clear Out All The Old Drivers So You Can Get A Fresh Install Of The New Ones.

 

(If You Cant Get Any Video Out At All From The Gpu You May Need To Use Your Integrated Graphics Just To Clear And Reset The Drivers. If Its Windows Blue Screening, Try Booting Into Safe Mode.

I needed to reinstall the Display Drivers entirely because after the BSOD i couldnt right click on my desktop anymore. It froze for a second and then reloaded my desktop. Now it looks like it's fixed.

 

But I still see very low values being used by the GPu although Im running GPU heavy games. Maybe this is supposed to be like this idk?

[Daniel644]

VRAM usage has to do more with the level of detail you load, the higher you crank the settings in the game the more VRAM it needs, like say you increase the texture details or the scene render distance, basically the more stuff it needs to load to play the game the more VRAM it uses.

 

Low VRAM usage doesn't indicate there is any kind of issue like you are describing.

 

What you can try instead of doing the DDU then installing the latest drivers, do the DDU then install the old drivers you had from before last week, nearly every build of Nvidia Drivers is readily available online if you go here https://www.nvidia.com/drivers/beta

you can find every build of the drivers and see the original release dates so you can try to guess which driver build you where running BEFORE you lost the performance.

 

Another thought, did you happen to upgrade to the latest Windows 10 build? I swear that thing is getting to be a bigger GPU resource hog every version.