Hello,
I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me answer some of my questions on my graphics card performance and my issue.
I've recently built a new PC with the following three essential components:
Motherboard: MSI B150 M3 Gaming
CPU: I7 6700k Skylake
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce Gtx 1060 Windforce 6GB.
The computer runs great and for my first build I'm quite happy. However, I noticed that when I go into the settings of one of my games, Shogun 2 Total War, the settings show that it only recognizes 2918 megabytes of video card memory. That's basically less than half of my total VRAM of 6GB. I've done quite a bit of research and the most popular solution was to try modify certain text and preference files which have only made the game recognize 4096 memory at most.
The main reason why I'm trying to solve this is because, from what I think I know, the more vram your game can use, the greater the performance. Is this true? Also, before buying my graphics card I looked up its benchmarks and theoretically, it should be able to play the game at Ultra settings above 60 FPS. Unfortunately though, in an average battle my FPS is around the 40s-50s. I've even looked at some videos of people playing using a lower end graphics card and with a similar CPU and they perform better than my own. This is one benchmark test I've looked at using a lower quality card, http://www.anandtech.com/show/6994/nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-review/5
This is a video testing almost the exact same card but on total war warhammer and the performance was great.
https://youtu.be/plf7tQQW-AQ
I've contacted Gigabyte about the card's performance and they're telling me that it's probably because of my motherboard. I'm still fairly new to computer hardware so I would like to clarify something. Essentially, a lower end card can significantly outperform a higher end if it has a powerful CPU and motherboard? I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but its hard to believe the performance will be that great of a difference. I also don't think my CPU bad either. So in my case, is my motherboard just not good enough to and is bringing down both my CPU and GPU?
In summary, is there a way to make the game recognize I have 6GB of vram? And why is my performance lacking?
I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me answer some of my questions on my graphics card performance and my issue.
I've recently built a new PC with the following three essential components:
Motherboard: MSI B150 M3 Gaming
CPU: I7 6700k Skylake
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce Gtx 1060 Windforce 6GB.
The computer runs great and for my first build I'm quite happy. However, I noticed that when I go into the settings of one of my games, Shogun 2 Total War, the settings show that it only recognizes 2918 megabytes of video card memory. That's basically less than half of my total VRAM of 6GB. I've done quite a bit of research and the most popular solution was to try modify certain text and preference files which have only made the game recognize 4096 memory at most.
The main reason why I'm trying to solve this is because, from what I think I know, the more vram your game can use, the greater the performance. Is this true? Also, before buying my graphics card I looked up its benchmarks and theoretically, it should be able to play the game at Ultra settings above 60 FPS. Unfortunately though, in an average battle my FPS is around the 40s-50s. I've even looked at some videos of people playing using a lower end graphics card and with a similar CPU and they perform better than my own. This is one benchmark test I've looked at using a lower quality card, http://www.anandtech.com/show/6994/nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-review/5
This is a video testing almost the exact same card but on total war warhammer and the performance was great.
https://youtu.be/plf7tQQW-AQ
I've contacted Gigabyte about the card's performance and they're telling me that it's probably because of my motherboard. I'm still fairly new to computer hardware so I would like to clarify something. Essentially, a lower end card can significantly outperform a higher end if it has a powerful CPU and motherboard? I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but its hard to believe the performance will be that great of a difference. I also don't think my CPU bad either. So in my case, is my motherboard just not good enough to and is bringing down both my CPU and GPU?
In summary, is there a way to make the game recognize I have 6GB of vram? And why is my performance lacking?
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