VRAM monitor not visible load more than 4 GB

Discussion in 'MSI AfterBurner Application Development Forum' started by EvMerk, Dec 29, 2016.

  1. EvMerk

    EvMerk Guest

    Hi, after replacing the video card (it was 2 GB, 8 GB was) VRAM boot monitor does not show the download more than 4 GB - comes to this mark and reset (starts counting again from zero). Windows 7x64 Pro, MSI rx 470 Armor 8 GB, "dxdiag" shows 4095 MB is available, how to fix?
     
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  2. dr_rus

    dr_rus Ancient Guru

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    D3D9 apps don't have access to more than 4GB of VRAM.
     
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  3. Unwinder

    Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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    Guests from overclockers.ru? ;) You may "fix" it by upgrading your OS to Win8 or newer version only. Microsoft D3DKMT performance counter, which is a data source form VRAM usage is MSIAB, GPU-Z, AIDA and similar tools is 32-bit under Windows 7 and Vista, so it cannot report >4Gb values. Newer OS versions use 64-bit performance counter.
     
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  4. EvMerk

    EvMerk Guest

    Thank you, this only applies to performance counters? In game is all ok?
     
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