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2 games now have said I have run out of vram

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Over the last few months I haven't gamed that much on pc but when I have 2 games, Ravaged and Orion: Dino Horde have had times where they have kicked me out of the game for not having enough vram.  I have a PNY 2 GB GTX 670 which has been used for TF2 by my son without a hitch but not sure if he turned on max settings for that game.  Anyway what can I do to resolve this issue ?  

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Fire up GPU-Z and see how much memory is shown. Either it's an issue with the game / drivers, or your memory is degraded / broken [partially].

 

What resolution are you playing on BTW?

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What ressolution and detail are you running at?

EDIT: what Scia said, my first thought was some bad vram on that card..

you are not using the card for mining in the background or something either are you?

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Turn down texture quality and/or resolution. Those two affect RAM usage the most. Also, distance of view, object detail would be common settings in RPGs that you might want to consider (I don't know what those two games are, so don't know the settings available).

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Turn down texture quality and/or resolution. Those two affect RAM usage the most. Also, distance of view, object detail would be common settings in RPGs that you might want to consider (I don't know what those two games are, so don't know the settings available).

Add Anti-Aliasing to that list. I'm fairly certain it takes up a lot, depending on your resolution.

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To answer one of the questions I have played on 1920x1080.  I will try GPU-Z in a few minutes and let you know what it says.  As for anti-aliasing I had shut off mxsaa and left the other to 16x for the game Ravaged.  I am continuing to have issues even when turning down the settings. 

Update:  I used GPU-Z and it says I have 2048 MB of ram.

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To answer one of the questions I have played on 1920x1080.  I will try GPU-Z in a few minutes and let you know what it says.  As for anti-aliasing I had shut off mxsaa and left the other to 16x for the game Ravaged.

 

You shouldn't run into that kinds of issues at 1080p if I am not mistaken. I don't know these two games personally but it sounds unusual. Check your GPU memory with some benchmarks and GPU-Z.

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It took quite a few matches but I just ran out of memory again with Ravaged. :Z  I think I am going to try some real games in the future that I know are by first rate publishers and see if I have a problem with them.  I have played other games without issue in the past with this card.  My son reported no issues with TF2 and I have played Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army without issue with this same card.

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What ressolution and detail are you running at? EDIT: what Scia said, my first thought was some bad vram on that card.. you are not using the card for mining in the background or something either are you?

 

Nah I am not mining for bitcoins or whatever in the background.  As for the resolution I am running the game at well 1920x1080p is what I try to run everything at.  In regards to settings I turned them down quite a bit in my last play through and I didn't get the memory error but the game, Ravaged, did crash. LOL 

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Starcraft 2 used to do the exact same thing to me on my Nvidia Geforce 570 GTX, 1,5 GB.

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Well it is sad I like Ravaged so much with all the problems I am having with the game. :(

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Scia you told me to run some benchmark tests.  Here we go ...

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You're the second person now to report the exact same problem with a 670 on Orion.

 

With that game Orion: Dino Horde I think I had problems with the previous versions of it.  The game has had so many different names.  All I know is the current one ran no problem.

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I'm almost positive something has to go wrong for games to tell you that you are out of VRAM.  Usually when you low on VRAM, they just automatically fix that by making stuff farther away disappear, etc.

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Poorly developed games with vmem leaks. :)

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I found a fix for Orion: Dino Horde and that was some sort of command that gave me as the user 3 GB of memory to work with and only 1 GB to Windows.  I guess it is usually a 2 GB/ 2 GB split without this command I used.

 

Here is where the fix was found:

http://spiralforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=2317&start=10
 

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