Does Textures only affact VRAM or it affects RAM as well

[Blazepoint5]

Depending on the settings your using i know it affects VRAM usage either low, medium, high or ultra if available. So any of these settings always affects vram usage but does it affects ram as well? Since game files and other thing must go to the random access memory before anything could happen.

 

If it does how big is it, is it as effective as how it does with vram or just a little bit.

[SImoHayha]

17 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

Depending on the settings your using i know it affects VRAM usage either low, medium, high or ultra if available. So any of these settings always affects vram usage but does it affects ram as well? Since game files and other thing must go to the random access memory before anything could happen.

 

If it does how big is it, is it as effective as how it does with vram or just a little bit.

if you run outta VRAM, then some RAM is used.  You can see this in some lower end machines, that RAM is taken up if VRAM is low.

[Blazepoint5]

6 minutes ago, SImoHayha said:

if you run outta VRAM, then some RAM is used.  You can see this in some lower end machines, that RAM is taken up if VRAM is low.

Ahh i remember now, and if ram is out then storage is used right.

[Eigenvektor]

5 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

Ahh i remember now, and if ram is out then storage is used right.

Yes, that's what swap is for.

 

But if you run out of VRAM and stuff spills over into RAM, the latency penalty of that will already make the game unplayable. Once your computer starts to swap, it'll effectively grind to a halt and become all but unusable.

[Mark Kaine]

it depends,  for example in MHW you can double your VRAM usage by going from medium to high volumetric lighting,  which technically isnt even a texture setting. 

Ergo this cannot be answered in a general way. 

[Mark Kaine]

On 3/14/2024 at 6:00 AM, Blazepoint5 said:

Ahh i remember now, and if ram is out then storage is used right.

this is also why most games "reserve" 16GB RAM on start, mind you "reserve" basically so its ready in case its needed.

 

 

that's also why having other applications run while playing a game can have a massive performance impact.