win7 64 bit, memory usages?

[rabbidrabbit]

Upgraded from xp to win7 and now my video mem used went from 500-600 megs to 5 megs.  My video mem avail is now 4gigs.  It's the same GTX 260 with 896 megs of ram but I upgraded system memory to 8 gigs so it does to seem to be seeing my video memory properly.  Before the upgrade it would always show memory correctly as 896 avail.  As a side note, there are a lot of hesitations where they were not before.  For example, I launch any plane of vehicle and there is often a 3-5 seconds pause.  Sometimes, I'm nearly off the cv before I can do anything.   What gives?

[Bruv119]

it is fubar.  don't pay any attention to it.

my 640mb GTS is showing as 1.8 gig video memory with 6.7mb used 

[guncrasher]

i have the same but in mine it takes about 1-2 seconds after i up to see any other planes around.  I can see planes from the tower but at the begining of the sorty i am alone.

semp

[Skuzzy]

The reason the numbers are whacky is due to how the drivers for Windows 7 and Vista make use of shared system RAM.  The numbers happen to be correct.  It just means that the bulk of the video memory space being used is being taken away from your system RAM.

The drivers do not report that as used video RAM, simply because it is used system RAM now.  It can cause performance issues and it is something we have no control over. 

[falcon23]

Is this happening to all windows7 users,or only those who have the 64bit??

                                                                                 Thanks.Falcon23

[Ruler2]

Falcon, I am not sure how I countered that problem, but I did SOMETHING to make it show up on my PC as 640MB RAM with ~2-300 used. I am not sure if I tweaked the drivers or OS settings, but I don't think it will give you much of a performance difference.

[Skuzzy]

32 or 64 bit does not matter.  If you can disable the vidoe driver from using shared system memory it will help a bit with performance and get the video card memory usage numbers back to normal.

[falcon23]

32 or 64 bit does not matter.  If you can disable the vidoe driver from using shared system memory it will help a bit with performance and get the video card memory usage numbers back to normal.

   I bow to the mighty skuzzy and ask for your guidance in attempting to achieve this.. 

[Chalenge]

Unless you can find a BIOS option on your system I think your out of luck but...

Under System in Control Panel you can go into Advanced system settings and then Performance and on the Visual Effects tab select 'Adjust for best performance' and a lot fewer problems will come up while playing AH... at least with Vista.

[rabbidrabbit]

Would there be anything else causing the delays, particularly in launching?  I lifted a goon yesterday and I was already off the runway before I saw anything.  It just seems to suck at loading up video related stuff.

The card is a GTX 260 with 191.07 drivers.  I'm having no problems with frame rates and everything is turned up.

[ebfd11]

Skuzzy,

   I don't know if this helps here but when I first started using windows 7 ultimate I had the same problem.
  I was using shared memory from the old vista files and new windows 7 files. My remedy was to delete the vista files and I no longer have that problem.

[68ZooM]

Would there be anything else causing the delays, particularly in launching?  I lifted a goon yesterday and I was already off the runway before I saw anything.  It just seems to suck at loading up video related stuff.

The card is a GTX 260 with 191.07 drivers.  I'm having no problems with frame rates and everything is turned up.

Are those drivers 191.07 from the XFX website?, those are old drivers i had that version and was having kind of the same problems, the latest ones are 195.62 best place to get all your drivers for Nvidia based cards is here.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql.html  thats the download for win7 64 bit,  they also have the 32bit to. 

[rabbidrabbit]

Updated and it seems to have made no difference.

[guncrasher]

same here.  also updated my bios. no difference.

semp