Author Topic: why dosnt ah2 use more than 128mb of video memory? ( i have 256mb vid card) (Read 349 times)

Citabria · « **on:** June 09, 2004, 06:32:19 PM »

it hits 124mb used and says warning low memory when only half of the video memory is in use on a 256mb card???!?!!?

whats going on?

hitech · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2004, 07:26:18 PM »

That message is caused when I try load a texture and it failes do to low vidoe memory. What drivers are you useing?

HiTech

GScholz · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2004, 07:37:05 PM »

Check your BIOS settings on AGP memory.

Innominate · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2004, 09:36:54 PM »

Hmm, The texture size suggestion I get is 512. Switching it to 1024 seems not to hurt performance except when AH decides to ***** about not having enough vram. However, the framerate display claims that AH is using about 70 out of 128mb of vram.

Is it possible there is a bug causing AH to misjudge the amount of available vram? Or is it bumping the texture size down automaticly to keep it within vram?

(I have an ATI Radeon 9800Pro)

Tilt · « **Reply #4 on:** June 10, 2004, 06:14:41 AM »

I had something similar

FX5600 256MB

AH1 showed 256 in Mem Available
AH2 showed 128 in Mem Available

Dxdiag showed 128
Vid card properties showed 256.

I upgraded to latest drivers and now AH2 and DXdiag show 256.

However AH2 has never used more than 70.

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2004, 07:40:44 AM »

what makes ah2 gonna use 256 ram
i don't see it

i'm just a pc noob offcourse

again especialy when i compare to games like il2