GPU Shares sytem memory, how do i disable this?

[The_Jonkler]

I searched it up and couldnt find anything but apparently its worse than i thought not only do i only have 8gb system memory left but my gpu is bottlenecked by my sytem ram! how do i disable this? i've looked in my bios and cant find any option for that. i have a gt 1030 btw

[DigitalGoat]

9 minutes ago, Lucasnetic said:

I searched it up and couldnt find anything but apparently its worse than i thought not only do i only have 8gb system memory left but my gpu is bottlenecked by my sytem ram! how do i disable this? i've looked in my bios and cant find any option for that. i have a gt 1030 btw

A GPU will only use system RAM if it runs out of VRAM, if you are constantly running out of VRAM then change a games visual settings down or upgrade to a GPU with more VRAM.

If you did manage to prevent the GPU accessing the system RAM (a function of the drivers, which would need 'modding', possibly leading to other issues) then your games/ apps requiring more memory than the card can provide would fail to start or crash frequently.

[PDifolco]

1030 is a really bad GPU with only 2GB VRAM, if you don't allow it to use system RAM it will just not be able to launch games unless super low settings

Get a better one... or add RAM to your system

[The_Jonkler]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

1030 is a really bad GPU with only 2GB VRAM, if you don't allow it to use system RAM it will just not be able to launch games unless super low settings

Get a better one... or add RAM to your system

i cant get a new gpu and all my ram slots are filled i cant afford it unfortunatly

[The_Jonkler]

I am confused by this

[The_Jonkler]

does it need another 8gb of ram i not so much wanna disable it i just wanna limit the amount of ram it uses

 

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, Lucasnetic said:

I am confused by this

When you run out of VRAM on the GPU then the card will use system memory. It's what you want because otherwise the application or game or whatever is using the GPU would crash when it runs out of memory.

 

The card is not using system memory unless it needs more than 2GB of VRAM and I don't know what youre doing but playing games on LOW settings should be fine for the most part.

[PDifolco]

Just now, Lucasnetic said:

I am confused by this

Means that your GPU has 2GB VRAM and if needed (by game textures say) it will use up to 8GB RAM, in fact less because some will be used

But there's no solution to make games not require VRAM... your system lacks VRAM and RAM

 

[The_Jonkler]

i have 16 gb of ram is that not enough?

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

 your system lacks VRAM and RAM

 

 

[PDifolco]

3 minutes ago, Lucasnetic said:

i have 16 gb of ram is that not enough?

 

Ok, thought you had 8GB only, sorry

Then your GPU using some RAM isn't an issue (just close your chrome tabs before launching a game), and is the best you can get with your 1030

 

[LOST TALE]

lots of good games that run under 2gb. ex: bf4, starcraft 2