Question about VRAM allocation

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DarylDixon

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Hi, apologies in advance, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this stuff. I'm playing Watch Dogs 2 at the moment, and I noticed a lot of stuttering during gameplay. In the graphics settings menu, you can see how much vram the game is using, and it's sometimes using over 3500MB of available 2017MB. This doesn't make sense to me? I looked up how much memory my pc has, and it says 8192mb ram, and 10500mb vram, but only 2141 allocated. What does this mean? And am I able to safely increase the allocated memory without risking hardware damage or is it supposed to stay this way?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750TI
AMD Athlon x4 750K Quad Core Processor
Windows 10 Pro

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Sakkura
Your GTX 750 Ti probably has 2048MB of actual VRAM on the card itself. But it can borrow system memory when necessary. That just makes things run a LOT slower. Adjusting these settings wouldn't fix that problem.

Adjusting the texture setting is the easiest way to change VRAM usage, so I would recommend you turn that down.
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Sakkura

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Your GTX 750 Ti probably has 2048MB of actual VRAM on the card itself. But it can borrow system memory when necessary. That just makes things run a LOT slower. Adjusting these settings wouldn't fix that problem.

Adjusting the texture setting is the easiest way to change VRAM usage, so I would recommend you turn that down.
 
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DarylDixon

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Oh I see, I get it now. I'll turn that setting down a bit then. Thank you!
 
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