vram problem

[Mikerino]

So i was playing Dark Souls and noticed the game was running incredible bad (17 fps) when i played it at 30 fps stable, so i check Msi Afterburner and saw that it was only using 310mb of vram of the 2gb my video card has, i tried other game and it was the same so i downloaded a vram stress test and get 1.3gb of vram used.

I don't know if i'm stupid and this is normal or my vga is bad, hope you guys could give me any ideas, thank you!

[Frosty]

What sort of video card do you have?

[SnowyMus]

What is your system specs? There are tons and tons of 2 GB cards out there, plus it could very possibly not be your graphics card.

[Mikerino]

oh, i forgot that, https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/N730-2GD3.html

edit: full specs
cpu: intel e5300 @ 2.6ghz
motherboard: asrock g31m-s
ram: 4gb ddr2
ssd: kingston v300 120gb

[Streetguru]

2 hours ago, Mikerino said:

 

a 730 shouldn't run any modern game well

[Mikerino]

6 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

a 730 shouldn't run any modern game well

It's not about that, Dark Souls is from 2011, the problem is that the vga doesn't use all the vram and i don't know why, i'm thinking about a bottleneck.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Mikerino said:

It's not about that, Dark Souls is from 2011, the problem is that the vga doesn't use all the vram and i don't know why, i'm thinking about a bottleneck.

it's just the hardware you have, dark souls was never a good PC port to begin with, if you want to get more into PC gaming you'll need to upgrade to something man, like even an APU system potentially, more likely an AM4 APU system when they launch soon

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-pc-performance-analysis/

[Mikerino]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

it's just the hardware you have, dark souls was never a good PC port to begin with, if you want to get more into PC gaming you'll need to upgrade to something man, like even an APU system potentially, more likely an AM4 APU system when they launch soon

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-pc-performance-analysis/

I know, but it's not the only game, i tried with League of Legends and it was the same thing, now i tried with Ori and the Blind Forest and the vga used 800mb of vram, that's why i mention it could be a bottleneck.

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, Mikerino said:

I know, but it's not the only game, i tried with League of Legends and it was the same thing, now i tried with Ori and the Blind Forest and the vga used 800mb of vram, that's why i mention it could be a bottleneck.

It's just the fact that it's a 730 GPU, VRAM is just texture placeholder mostly, download like World of Warcraft or something intensive and load up a free character and max out the textures, you should see a spike in VRAM usage even though you of course can't run the game like that

Like, howed you end up with that hardware? They have some benchmarks of a 730 here

 

[Mikerino]

Yeah im actually playing Warlords of Draenor.

I bought the pc like 7 years ago, so..

[Darkseth]

4 hours ago, Mikerino said:

It's not about that, Dark Souls is from 2011, the problem is that the vga doesn't use all the vram and i don't know why, i'm thinking about a bottleneck.

Age doesn't say anything

Crysis 1 came out 2007, and your System would NOT be able to run this game maxed out .

 

Your CPU is a fart-old Dual core CPU (Even a today's 40€ Pentium dual Core is multiple times faster, probably x2 to x3 times as fast).

And a GT 730 is.... really really Weak. It migh thave 2gb Vram, but for those settings, where 2gb are beeing used, your GPU is not nearly fast enough.

Plus, how much Vram is used, depends on the Game engine.

 

Your Vram is NOT full, that means Vram is NOT your problem.

The Problem is CPU/GPU Performance.

 

You have a Vram problem, when your vram is 100% full.

[TheRandomness]

7 hours ago, Mikerino said:

oh, i forgot that, https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/N730-2GD3.html

edit: full specs
cpu: intel e5300 @ 2.6ghz
motherboard: asrock g31m-s
ram: 4gb ddr2
ssd: kingston v300 120gb

Your issue is that the 730 is god-awful...