How to monitor vram on 5970??

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 14:14

Hey

How do I see how much VRAM is in use on the 5970 cards.
Running cat 10.7a

I want to monitor the VRAM use during big games to see if it's my ram filling up that stoping my gpus from getting over 60% use

twist3d0n3 · 16 Aug 2010 at 15:14

iirc you can't on vista or windows 7, but i maybe wrong...

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 15:38

Some people can with the Nvidia GPU's....

Cant find a program that does it with ATI's tho

Marine-RX179 · 16 Aug 2010 at 15:41

MSI Afterburner has option for displaying GPU temp, usage, Memory usage etc on screen (at top left corner etc) during gaming.

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 15:54

It does?
Any idea how?? Can only get fps on whilst in game

HW91 · 16 Aug 2010 at 15:58

Phoenixdancer said:
It does?
Any idea how?? Can only get fps on whilst in game

settings>monitoring>click on memory usage>click show in OSD

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 16:02

K will try when home

Rroff · 16 Aug 2010 at 16:52

If your using 2x 5970 you aren't going to see full GPU useage except on 2560x res or eyefinity possibly (I notice what looks like an eyefinity setup in the sig). Often the 2nd GPU isn't going to be adding a significant amount (maybe 30-40% at best) over the 1st.

EDIT: Is eyefinity (if thats what your using) even working properly with crossfire yet?

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 17:38

Yea it works, been running a 5970 + 5870 setup for ages with eyefinity fine.
Only gone 5970x2 cus at 6060x1200 3 gpus struggle with 8xaa

twist3d0n3 · 16 Aug 2010 at 17:52

HW91 said:
settings>monitoring>click on memory usage>click show in OSD

there is no such option

HW91 · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:01

twist3d0n3 said:
there is no such option

there is for me

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:11

What version of afterburner and what gpu u got??

HW91 · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:13

Phoenixdancer said:
What version of afterburner and what gpu u got??

2.0.0 and a GTX 470

twist3d0n3 · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:14

Phoenixdancer said:
Hey

How do I see how much VRAM is in use on the 5970 cards.
Running cat 10.7a

maybe read the OP next time :rolleyes:

Phoenixdancer · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:20

Yea nvidias cards can do this. After a ati solution

Rezident · 24 Sep 2010 at 13:10

Also looking for a way to accurately measure VRAM usage on ATI cards, there must be something?

Phoenixdancer · 24 Sep 2010 at 19:30

dont think there is mate

Rroff · 24 Sep 2010 at 19:50

EDIT: No matter program doesn't seem to work with newer OS.

If anyone does want to try it program I created ages ago for debugging on XP here but just testing it with Win 7 it seems to be unable to retrieve valid data from the GPU.

twist3d0n3 · 24 Sep 2010 at 20:49

doesn't work unfortunately

thanks for linking tho