Want to know how much vram your gfx card uses in games?

[Sir Random]

Well, I just checked my vram usage in a couple of games at 1920x1200, max details:

STALKER: Just going from the start village to the bandit camp and back (1st mission), my card used a max of 620.55Mb

ARMA Demo: I played the Helicopter mission, and the card was using 749Mb constantly, plus 104Mb of system ram.


I used a simple utility called "Video Memory Watcher" for monitoring vram usage. It shows how much vram (and system ram) your card uses while gaming.

http://www.nonatainment.de/web/Default.aspx?tabid=62

Click on "Datei herunterladen" at the bottom right of the page to download. The actual program gui is in English.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

this is a good idea for people to see how much vram is used, but i think its inaccurate compared to the tray tools monitor.

 

[IceShock]

i tryed to use it, it worked for 3 seconds then went poop. everything just had "?" next to it. closed it tryed it again same thing happened etc,

 

[Cyber-Mav]

just tested it and its useless to me, detects my system ram as 1gig and 1.2gig of video ram.

 

[Cupra]

just tested it and its useless to me, detects my system ram as 1gig and 1.2gig of video ram.

good software then

 

[Sir Random]

Have you got .Net installed? It needs that to work properly, and it doesn't support Vista yet.

It worked fine for ElitePeoplebornoutofwedlocks testing an X1900XT with GRAW:
http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/in...ask=view&id=58&Itemid=29&limit=1&limitstart=4

good software then

Why not try it for yourself? or better still, write a better one?

 

[BubbySoup]

It worked fine for ElitePeoplebornoutofwedlocks testing an X1900XT with GRAW:

LoL

 

[silversurfer]

Doesnt load for me, is it supposed to be 32k

 

[Sir Random]

Doesnt load for me, is it supposed to be 32k

The zip file is 33.2k, the un-zipped utility is 80k.

 

[marc2003]

works for me. i only have gta:sa installed and that uses 80mb of vram apparently.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

i got all .nets installed, 1 2 and 3, i guess since im using xp 64 its probably whats causing the problem.

 

[chaosophy]

For ATi just use the O.S.D in ATi Tray Tools.

It will show clocks, fan, free vid mem, free texture mem, system mem used, renderer, plus others and if you're lucky cpu/mobo bits as well. or you can snap in some 3rd party monitoring tools.

As well as doing your overclocking and help you avoid using CCC.