hd graphic taking extra ram!!!!

[janananathan]

I recently installed 8gp ram in my laptop. hd graphics 5500 take 4gb from installed 8gb. please help

 

[nitinvaid20]

you can change that in bios settings how much ram or memory you can use
and you are on 64bit widows right?

 

[captaincharisma]

something else id going on. integrated graphics will not use that much ram.

 

[dudeman509]

Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit Windows? 32 will only address 4 GB of RAM.

 

[janananathan]

you can change that in bios settings how much ram or memory you can use
and you are on 64bit widows right?

yes 64 bit. iam using dell inspiron 15 3558, i3 5th gen . please tell me how to use the bios

something else id going on. integrated graphics will not use that much ram.

i checked in gta 5 and typed dxdiag in run .

 

[dudeman509]

you can change that in bios settings how much ram or memory you can use
and you are on 64bit widows right?

yes 64 bit. iam using dell inspiron 15 3558, i3 5th gen . please tell me how to use the bios

something else id going on. integrated graphics will not use that much ram.

i checked in gta 5 and typed dxdiag in run .

Meh.

Look at system properties. See how much RAM is available to it. Or task manager.

For instance, mine says RAM: 16.0 GB (15.9 usable). The IGP is taking up 128 MB or so.

 

[janananathan]

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Meh.

Look at system properties. See how much RAM is available to it. Or task manager.

For instance, mine says RAM: 16.0 GB (15.9 usable). The IGP is taking up 128 MB or so.
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I have checked in task manager and it shows 7.9 gb available out of 8gb.But when i open gta 5 it shows 4010 gb of v ram availabe for graphics memory and the game is sloppier than expected.but it is supposed to show lesser amout of vram right?

 

[janananathan]

you can change that in bios settings how much ram or memory you can use
and you are on 64bit widows right?

yes 64 bit. iam using dell inspiron 15 3558, i3 5th gen . please tell me how to use the bios

something else id going on. integrated graphics will not use that much ram.

i checked in gta 5 and typed dxdiag in run .

Meh.

Look at system properties. See how much RAM is available to it. Or task manager.

For instance, mine says RAM: 16.0 GB (15.9 usable). The IGP is taking up 128 MB or so.

I have checked in task manager and it shows 7.9 gb available out of 8gb.But when i open gta 5 it shows 4010 gb of v ram availabe for graphics memory and the game is sloppier than expected.but it is supposed to show lesser amout of vram right?

 

[madmatt30]

GTA v will use what it needs to

You can limit the max amount of ram available to graphics in bios as already mentioned

 

[janananathan]

GTA v will use what it needs to

You can limit the max amount of ram available to graphics in bios as already mentioned

can you please tell me how to change that in BIOS. Iam using a DELL inspiron 15 3558.The processor is i3 5005u.

 

[dudeman509]

I think GTAV says that on integrated graphics systems. I'll check tonight on my 4210u; I know it's limited to 256 on that computer in the BIOS. No way it's actually using 4 gigs.

 

[DSzymborski]

Yup, no way the IGP is actually *using* 4 GB of VRAM. GTA V's settings will list the VRAM that different settings require and if yours says 4 GB of VRAM, your setting are *way* too high. And quite frankly, I'd be shocked if the game was running well; an HD 5500 integrated is going to struggle to even reach 30 fps at 1024x768. That's the more likely reason it's running poorly.

 

[dudeman509]

Yeah, the game completely lies about how much it actually takes.

Download MSI Afterburner to view the real VRAM usage.

It's a bit choppy, but playable at 1366*768 on HD 4400 graphics on low settings on a crappy i5-4210u. I have dual channel RAM in it, which will help out the iGPU speeds just a hair.

FYI, my dxdiag (now out of the game) says:
Approx total RAM: 2160
Display Memory: 112 MB VRAM
Shared: 2048 MB

Intel HD graphics can allocate UP to 2 GB (4 in your case) if it is ever needed, but it will never really use that much. In most cases, it is less than a gig before it runs out of power. HD 5500 isn't too bad for what it is, though.