How do I control shared memory in Windows?

[GAME 55]

Few months ago, I downloaded Fortnite on my PC, knowing it was a Minecraft Build and that it wasn’t very powerful, but I tried it.

 

At first, everything looked okay, and better than I expected.

 

720p@60fps without any FPS drops Low Settings, except View Distance on Ultra

It looked very promising!

 

After the last update the game seemed slowed and it had horrible FPS drops

it keeped jumping from 60 to 40 to 20 to 40 to 50 

 

At this point, I had to set all settings to Low and to play on a horrible resolution of 360p to get 60fps so I did.

 

Couple of days later, I noticed that the “Shared Memory” for my integrated graphics was 5GB, means that I was playing on 3GB of RAM this whole time, I kinda knew it, because even that the Radeon Vega 11 is a little bit weak, it is capable enough for Fortnite Low Settings Gaming.

 

I went to the BIOS, and locked the Graphics Memory to 2GB rather than Auto, and when I logged in to Windows, it showed that I had 2GB Dedicated Graphics and 3GB Shared, but I don’t have any Dedicated Graphics, which meant I was still using 5GB of my RAM.

 

So I locked it to the lowest setting (64MB) but Windows still gets 3GB of RAM. I want the graphics to only take 2GB, because I am sure I am memory bottlenecked.

 

Is there any way to do this?

I am going to upgrade my PC later by the end of this month, I just want to know if there is something that I can do now?

 

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

GPU: Radeon Vega 11

(going to upgrade it for RTX 2060)

RAM: G.SKILL 8GB DDR4-2933MHz

(going to upgrade it and buy another RAM stick)

Motherboard: ASUS EX-A320 GAMING

Power Supply: Seasonic S12II 620W

Cooling: Wraith Stealth Stock Cooler

Storage: 1TB WD HDD

Edited March 25, 2020 by GAME 55

[LogicalDrm]

Please list your specs. If you aren't using iGPU, you could just disable it altogether. Could you also post screenchot of task managers Performance tab with Memory selected?

[GAME 55]

1 minute ago, LogicalDrm said:

Please list your specs. If you aren't using iGPU, you could just disable it altogether. Could you also post screenchot of task managers Performance tab with Memory selected?

I am indeed using an iGPU, I am sorry I forgot to list my specs, I edited it now.

[LogicalDrm]

5 minutes ago, GAME 55 said:

I am indeed using an iGPU, I am sorry I forgot to list my specs, I edited it now.

Oh, your post was bit confusing. Actual dedicated GPU doesn't touch RAM. I would still like to see how Task Manager looks like. And if you can try stressing RAM usage to the point where OS would be using more than 3Gb of it.

 

Another thing you can do is tweak size of pagefile.

[GAME 55]

20 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Oh, your post was bit confusing. Actual dedicated GPU doesn't touch RAM. I would still like to see how Task Manager looks like. And if you can try stressing RAM usage to the point where OS would be using more than 3Gb of it.

 

Another thing you can do is tweak size of pagefile.

Do you have any suggestions for a RAM Stress Test software, or should I just run the game and open Task Manager?

[GAME 55]

10 minutes ago, GAME 55 said:

Do you have any suggestions for a RAM Stress Test software, or should I just run the game and open Task Manager?

I think I knew how to fix this, thank you very much for you help and assistance!

[LogicalDrm]

14 minutes ago, GAME 55 said:

Do you have any suggestions for a RAM Stress Test software, or should I just run the game and open Task Manager?

 

Opening multiple browser tabs and load heavy pages on each. Chrome is known for hogging RAM.

 

3 minutes ago, GAME 55 said:

I think I knew how to fix this, thank you very much for you help and assistance!

 

Good to hear. Please do share your fix, if anyone else has same issue.

[GAME 55]

1 minute ago, LogicalDrm said:

 

Opening multiple browser tabs and load heavy pages on each. Chrome is known for hogging RAM.

 

 

Good to hear. Please do share your fix, if anyone else has same issue.

OK, I am going to do that.

 

I want to thank you again for replying and helping! Thank you so much!