Can ramdisk programs be dedicated to gpu ?

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Can anyone please point me in the direction to any info?

I love my pc, i put it together and i i think its ace, definitely the best that i,ve put together and for not a lot of money, however......... i have an XFX hd 5770 and a Sapphire hd 5750 in crossfire and when i run unigine i get 55 ish FPS at stockspeeds on both. With a mild o/c on both i can hit 65. Both of these cards have 1gb GDDR5 each of memory.
I already use RAmdisk with my 8gb of ram and was wondering if there was any way of using my RAM to increase my gpus memory?

Maybe i,m just being fanciful and 2gb of gpu memory already sounds quite a lot but..........

Any ideas or success/failure stories out there

 

[natr0n]

when gpu memory is full it uses you main system memory.

your gpu's are only using 1 gb as crossfire mirrors its ram.

no ramdisk can benefit gpu memory.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Many Thanks

short and to the point

Do you use any ramdisk programmes?

 

[n-ster]

As he said, the system automatically uses RAM when GPU RAM is full.

I do use a RAMdisk, Qsoft. What questions do you have?

 

[Mussels]

no, theres nothing you can do there to add more ram. as someone with far more powerful video cards than you (but still 1GB each) i can tell you its not the RAM thats the problem - your cards just arent fast enough for more FPS.

 

[natr0n]

I use ramdisk for my system pagefile. Help for loading faster on programs that utilize paging.

ASRock XFast RAM not sure if will work with a non Asrock motherboard.

 

[n-ster]

I have Xfast RAM too, great easy tool to use, but I find Qsoft to be superior in performance, though Asrock's tool is not too shaby

 

[AsRock]

I like using Datarams Ramdisk program if any.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Thankyou all

I know that it is what it is with the fps and im completely happy with FPS 60 in shift 2.

The 2 cards i have cost 100 quid second hand and were obviously better then the onboard 4250 on my Gigabyte 880 ud3h.

I suppose what i was really asking is how come a ram disk programme can make ram available (and in my case ramdisk utilizes 7 out of my 8 gb Ram) to other programs but not be able to assist GPU function.

Ive only just joined this forum and thought i had asked a question that might stretch some imaginative minds out there.

Like i said i love my pc and what it gives me.Crossfire with these cards doubled the FPS over a single 5750.

I dont know if i could have found a single card for 100 quid which would give me the same performance and i also like the idea that im using crossfire.

 

[n-ster]

If you are using 7GB of your RAM as a RAMdisk, games will definitively suffer from the lack of RAM

try to keep at LEAST a full 4GB of RAM available to your system

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Using AMD's and Qsoft's Ramdisk which aren't bad I found the best usage with 8gb ram to be no more than 3gb for the Ramdisk...

But once I got a better HDD setup I found Ramdisk setups to be useless...
May try again for page file usage tho...didn't think about that.

 

[Morgoth]

i use GiliSoft RAMDisk 4.5 ramdisk

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Tidy as we say in Wales.

I tried the free Radeon ramdisk which is limited to 4 out of 8 gb. And come to think of it im pretty sure the Dataram software im trying now is limited to 4gb. So as Win 7 task manager is showing 6 gb of 8 gb being used i think i.m right in thinking 4 gb is ramdisk and the remaining 2 is being used by the system.

Im gonna delete ramdisk and try your guys suggestions but limit it to 2 gb.

N-STER thanks

 

[AsRock]

Tidy as we say in Wales.

I tried the free Radeon ramdisk which is limited to 4 out of 8 gb. And come to think of it im pretty sure the Dataram software im trying now is limited to 4gb. So as Win 7 task manager is showing 6 gb of 8 gb being used i think i.m right in thinking 4 gb is ramdisk and the remaining 2 is being used by the system.

Im gonna delete ramdisk and try your guys suggestions but limit it to 2 gb.

N-STER thanks

You have to buy it to use more than 4GB and if you have 16GB and use 10GB you start getting warnings.

 

[Mussels]

I know that it is what it is with the fps and im completely happy with FPS 60 in shift 2.

The 2 cards i have cost 100 quid second hand and were obviously better then the onboard 4250 on my Gigabyte 880 ud3h.

I suppose what i was really asking is how come a ram disk programme can make ram available (and in my case ramdisk utilizes 7 out of my 8 gb Ram) to other programs but not be able to assist GPU function.

Ive only just joined this forum and thought i had asked a question that might stretch some imaginative minds out there.

Like i said i love my pc and what it gives me.Crossfire with these cards doubled the FPS over a single 5750.

I dont know if i could have found a single card for 100 quid which would give me the same performance and i also like the idea that im using crossfire.

ramdisks dont magically create ram - they just make a program think its running from a hard disk, when its running from much faster ram.

your video card ram is faster than your system ram - so what you're asking would actually slow it down.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Uninstalled ramdisk, downloaded the Radeon freebie, set it for 2046 mb, system is using 2gb ish
leaving 4 available for gaming.

I reckon Radeon will produce something more gamer orientated, may be right maybe not anyway no noticeable change in FPS

Really appreciate the input from everyone.

 

[Aquinus]

your video card ram is faster than your system ram

Only relative to the cpu/gpu and its memory controller. Copying data over PCI-E to the GPU to get it into GPU memory is relatively slow compared to just shoving something into system memory.

All in all, I wouldn't mess with a ramdisk unless you're just playing around with it. 8Gb doesn't give you a lot to work with.