I have an iGPU and it has a vram of 1GB. And I need to increase it to 2GB but my BIOS does not have the option. HELP

[luckysury333]

I have a "Laptop" with Ryzen 5 3500u. That laptop comes with an integrated graphics Vega 8. I can allocate upto 2gb of vram from my laptop's ram to this igpu. But by default the allocation is only 1gb. When playing Fifa sometimes it crashes because of that reason or else the game runs perfectly fine at 30fps.So when I searched internet to solve this problem the most common way to do it is to go to BIOS and open "Advanced" tab but that stupid manufacturers of my laptop locked it down that I don't even have the option to do that in the bios. Anyway to increase vram without going into bios? Or am I stuck with 1gb vram? Please help.

 

P.S: My sister has the laptop with same specs in Asus and she has the option to do it (Asus Vivobook 15)

[Kilrah]

The setting in BIOS is only the initial dedicated VRAM, normally once in Windows it should be allow to use the rest as shared.

But yeah if you don't have the option then there's nothing you can do. 

[FloRolf]

That's weird because your vram is just dram that is used by the igpu. Naturally windows is smart enough to use dram after your vram runs out. In your case it should just use more dram. 

 

 

Edit: what I am saying is, theoretically your system shouldn't care whether you have 1gb, 2gb or just 100mb allocated to the igpu as it will just use as much as it needs/until dram runs out. 

[luckysury333]

5 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

That's weird because your vram is just dram that is used by the igpu. Naturally windows is smart enough to use dram after your vram runs out. In your case it should just use more dram. 

Oh will it do that? I didn't know about it. Then it is strange why my game crashes...