Video memory vs Main Memory

[duxck]

Recently I upgraded my graphics card from an old 6950 2GB to an RX 480 8GB, I did this without upgrading my old machine in any other way. 

I've had tiny bit of problem with Ark: Survival Evolved crashing and windows citing out of memory as the reason. 

 

I was just wondering, could this be a problem between my main memory and video memory having some issues? 

(The problem occurred after I switched to the new graphics card).

 

So my main question is. Is there any problem with having less than or equal amount of video memory as main memory?

 

Current build. 

RAM: Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB
Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3, Socket-1155
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K
PSU: Corsair TX 750W 
GFX: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB GTR Black Edition

[SLAYR]

Vram has nothing to do with onboard ram, check your regular ram while in game, if you are hitting 100% usage then you need more ram, or close some background programs.

[duxck]

1 minute ago, SLAYR said:

Vram has nothing to do with onboard ram, check your regular ram while in game, if you are hitting 100% usage then you need more ram, or close some background programs.

okay, I was thinking that since I increased the graphics settings by quite a lot it could be there. But perhaps that will also lead to higher use of main memory. 

I will have a look and see which application is the memory thief. 

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

[ARikozuM]

9 minutes ago, duxck said:

okay, I was thinking that since I increased the graphics settings by quite a lot it could be there. But perhaps that will also lead to higher use of main memory. 

I will have a look and see which application is the memory thief. 

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

Do you overclock at all? Have you re-installed the game?

[duxck]

25 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Do you overclock at all? Have you re-installed the game?

Not overclocked atm no. I've run the machine stable on 4.5ghz before though. 

And no, didn't reinstall it. Is that recommended?

[ARikozuM]

35 minutes ago, duxck said:

Not overclocked atm no. I've run the machine stable on 4.5ghz before though. 

And no, didn't reinstall it. Is that recommended?

Some games have a hardware call in the ini and can be fixed in this manner. Try using default values for your CPU's overclock.