Riva Tuner Tweaks...

[FilipM]

Right, in Riva Tuner, as many of us know, there's some interesting stuff. I've been fiddling around with it and in the Direct3D tweaks, in Textures there is an option called Texture Memory and you can add how much of system memory should it use, as an extra memory to the GFX's one.

I've added 256 MB, tested that in Crysis, and it helps for sure, but my question is, from where does it take the memory from? HDD? RAM?

[AphexDreamer]

Originally Posted by File_1993

Right, in Riva Tuner, as many of us know, there's some interesting stuff. I've been fiddling around with it and in the Direct3D tweaks, in Textures there is an option called Texture Memory and you can add how much of system memory should it use, as an extra memory to the GFX's one.

I've added 256 MB, tested that in Crysis, and it helps for sure, but my question is, from where does it take the memory from? HDD? RAM?

I would say RAM.

[philbrown23]

probably ram that seems like the most obvious answer.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Read your own screenshot? "amount of system memory for PCI textures"

[W1zzard]

do you understand how this works? have you tested it if it gives better/same/worse performance?

[Tatty_One]

I can see the value of this perhaps in a game like crysis that demands a lot of memory, but under normal circumstances I would have thought that using system memory slows everything down as access times are greater......anyways does a game not draw from system memory in any case once it has used all the on board GDDR?

[oli_ramsay]

The same thing can be done in BIOS under the option "graphics aperture size". I've set mine to 256MB, whether it makes much difference in games or not, I don't know, but I've got 2GB so I can't see it being much of a drain on the RAM.

[magibeg]

Doesn't a game like crysis steal ram anyway for textures? I'd think rivatuner would just be more for limiting it or perhaps forcing it to use more.

[FilipM]

Originally Posted by W1zzard

do you understand how this works? have you tested it if it gives better/same/worse performance?

I've measured FPS with Fraps on Crysis before doing this and they were like 1X in the bushes and 20's on clearer field. After doing this, I haven't measured the FPS, but to me it looks like the min. FPS are improved, and so is the avg. FPS. Even if the performance is the same, it's worth trying.

If not better, I think it will make the FPS drops less noticeable.

[trog100]

u could load crysis.. alt/tab it.. look at task manager to see how much ram is in use..

do the same with and without the tweak.. i cant see as its gonna do anything to be honest.. but anything is possible..

trog

[marsey99]

alt/tab crashes my vista install (of crysis) but i does use 2.4gb of ram.

not tried this tweak yet tho.