Dedicated video memory

[Real men cry]

Hello!

 

I'm just like an old man on the computer, no idea what anything means.

For the first time in my life google didn't give me the answer, so i thought i'd give this a shot.

 

I was playing COD: AW earlier on today 50-60fps, and it told me i didn't have enough dedicated video memory. What does this mean and what do i do?

 

I have this brand new Acer pc with: 

GeForce GTX 760 (192-bit)

Intel® Core i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

12,00 GB RAM (11,92 GB available)

(bought it for $1.6k. what a rip off, right)

[Un4tural]

it means your gtx 760 presumably doesnt have enough memory on board, so it swaps to the main ram pool. wouldn't worry about it too much, as there is a fair bit lease until fps starts tanking, for example my 750 ti on shadow of mordor with high textures sits at 2/2gb usage pretty much the whole time and fps is stable as a rock cause it doesn't need to swap too often. ultra ruins it though.

 

don't worry about it.

[ac130kire]

Tone down your settings until it no longer says it, but if you aren't experiencing a performance decrease it should be just fine.

[Hieb]

That is not video memory, that is system memory. The GTX 760 192-bit version used by OEM manufacturers (such as Acer, Lenovo, Dell etc.) only has 1.5GB of VRAM, so you'll have to turn down anti-aliasing, texture quality and shadow quality until this doesn't happen. These are the things that use the most VRAM.

 

When you have the chance down the road, you'll want to upgrade your video card to something with at LEAST 2GB of VRAM, although these days I'd say it is better to get 3GB when it's a solid option. When you have the money I'd suggest upgrading to something with more VRAM. But your 760 should hold you over until next-gen GPUs come up... either GTX 900 will drop in price or Radeon R9 300 will have some compelling options.