Strange issue with Unreal 3 Engine games

[Deathie]

Right, so any unreal engine game (Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Borderlands) have this weird issue with resolutions.

I can run ANY of them at 600x800, max settings, and still get 40-50FPS

But the second I up it to 1024x768, LOWEST settings, it drops to a slideshow of 2-5FPS.

No clue why it would do this, if anyone's had experience with U3 who might know the problem, I'll take the support.

[» Magic «]

go up to the next resolution, you might be running out of VRAM?

[Deathie]

go up to the next resolution, you might be running out of VRAM?

It allocated about a GB and a half of my DDR3 ram to the GPU.

Not sure if that's the same, but yeah :L

[» Magic «]

It allocated about a GB and a half of my DDR3 ram to the GPU.

Not sure if that's the same, but yeah :L

GPU specs

for 70fps max on 800x600, it wouldn't have 1.5gb of vram...

[Deathie]

GPU specs

for 70fps max on 800x600, it wouldn't have 1.5gb of vram...

I told you, it's shitty integrated card.

It's a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family", but also known as a GMA 4500.
Approx total memory: 1580MB
According to dxdiag.

What I don't know is why I can run everything on max, then just have it dip below 5FPS whenever I up the reso a knotch, even if I lower everything.

[» Magic «]

I told you, it's shitty integrated card.

It's a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family", but also known as a GMA 4500.
Approx total memory: 1580MB
According to dxdiag.

What I don't know is why I can run everything on max, then just have it dip below 5FPS whenever I up the reso a knotch, even if I lower everything.

That's shared system memory

not same as dedicated

derp

also, you still haven't found out your laptops specs yet?

seems like it's running out of vram then, they wouldn't have more than 256mb GMA's, if even that

[Deathie]

That's shared system memory

not same as dedicated

derp

also, you still haven't found out your laptops specs yet?

seems like it's running out of vram then, they wouldn't have more than 256mb GMA's, if even that

Any way to allocate more dedi? Or is it based on the GPU?

I remember a while back on my old laptop, I could set how much VRAM I wanted the GPU to have by running around in the bios.

Idk if that's the dedi or shared though. Have yet to mess with this ones bios.

[» Magic «]

Any way to allocate more dedi? Or is it based on the GPU?

I remember a while back on my old laptop, I could set how much VRAM I wanted the GPU to have by running around in the bios.

Idk if that's the dedi or shared though. Have yet to mess with this ones bios.

you cannot allocate dedi, it's built in

you was setting shared ram for the gpu

the gma 4500 does not support 4k textures, which UE3 uses

stick to 8x6

[Deathie]

you cannot allocate dedi, it's built in

you was setting shared ram for the gpu

the gma 4500 does not support 4k textures, which UE3 uses

stick to 8x6

But

I can run max texture quality ._.

It's just when I up the reso a tiny bit, even on minimal, it still has the problem.

Also, AA isn't supported by this card, but I found a neat program that uses RAM to simulate AA. Know any similar programs that will force RAM to be used as dedi mem to GPU?

[» Magic «]

dedicated ram is built into the gpu


ffs

read

you cannot allocate dedicated video memory

only shared

its like pagefiles

it's not real ram

is 3/4 slower

[blαh2355]

Snivy, to help find your dedicated RAM...

IF running Windows XP, right click on desktop, click on properties, go all the way to the right tab, find "advanced" button and click, if not already on the adapter tab then go there and there are the information.

IF running Windows 7, go to Control Panel, Appearance and Personalization, Display, Screen Resolution, "Advanced" button, and a new dialog screen will pop up with info of the GPU.

Hope this helps

Windows 7 example and uh hehe, this is my school computer's GPU

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I just reailized that it's the same GPU that you have Snivy

[Deathie]

dedicated ram is built into the gpu


ffs

read

you cannot allocate dedicated video memory

only shared

its like pagefiles

it's not real ram

is 3/4 slower

I said I know that. I asked if there was a workaround, like I did with anti-aliasing.
It's a GPU feature that's built into the GPU. You can't "install" Anti-Aliasing. Hur hur hur.

Well I did it, and have a fully running program that fixes jaggies even though my GPU can't lrn2AA.

Calm down bro ._.


And Blahhhhh, I found it. Apparently, I have 128MB's dedi.

[» Magic «]

I said I know that. I asked if there was a workaround, like I did with anti-aliasing.
It's a GPU feature that's built into the GPU. You can't "install" Anti-Aliasing. Hur hur hur.

Well I did it, and have a fully running program that fixes jaggies even though my GPU can't lrn2AA.

Calm down bro ._.


And Blahhhhh, I found it. Apparently, I have 128MB's dedi.

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