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How to add vram(i have 16gb ram)

Anonymous
2023-10-28T15:10:17+00:00

I am trying to play ark survival ascended on steam and it says ‘not enough video memory’. I have 16gb of ram and i am on a gaming laptop with an integrated graphics card (intel(r) UHD Graphics) and a dedicated graphics card ( nividia geforce RTX 3050Ti laptop GPU). In display adaptor properties it says it is connected to the intel uhd graphics and the dedicated video memory is only 128 mb . I have tried to change it through BIOS but i cannot find it in BIOS. I have tried disabling intel uhd graphics but it sets to microsoft by default. I also have set Nvidia control pannel to the nvidia graphics card. Nothing works. Please help.

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  1. Rodrigo Queiroz 77,500 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-10-28T17:04:06+00:00

    Hi,

    I'm Rodrigo and I'll help you.

    VRAM is the video memory, the memory on the graphics processor used to store the game textures. It is not possible to add VRAM, but you can do some things to solve this problem:

    • First, check if the game is using the right graphics adapter (Nvidia RTX 3050TI), with the game running, open the Task Manager > Processes tab > Find the game process and look which GPU it is using on the "GPU engine" column. (If you can't see the "GPU Engine" column, right-click the row with "CPU","Memory" etc, and check the option "GPU Engine".)

    It will show GPU 0 or GPU 1, to know which one is which, open the Performance tab.

    If it is using Intel Graphics instead of Nvidia graphics, you have to set the graphics the game will use on Windows Settings. Open Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Under "Add an app", select Desktop app > Browse > Select the game executable under the Steam folder > The game will appear on the list below, select it > Options > Select the Nvidia graphics > Save.

    • If the game is using the right graphics adapter, the solution is to reduce the game graphics settings, to reduce the VRAM usage.
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  2. Rodrigo Queiroz 77,500 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-10-29T14:36:27+00:00

    Thank you for the screenshot.

    Right-click the Start Menu icon System > Advanced system settings > On "Performance" select Settings... > Advanced tab > On "Virtual Memory" select Change...

    Share the screenshot of this page.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-04T11:01:43+00:00

    Sorry for the late reply

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