GTA Wont use the Memory on the other card OR Shared memory.

For some reason, GTA4 wont use the shared video memory or the memory of my other card. I cant play on High texture quality because of this, and it's pissing me off. I have 1.7 gb of Shared and Dedicated memory. This is Bull.

Does anybody have a fix to this?

 

Just out of curiosity, what are your specs?

 

SLI cards have mirrored memory. Both cards are holding the same textures, so when you buy 2 512mb cards you really only have 512mb in SLI, not 1gb.

Also shared video memory is far too slow to be useful in a game and is only used as a gimmick to increase sales from people who think that bigger number = better card.

 

I have 1.7gb of mem available, which i use in crysis and warhead to the max with texture streaming off. 8800m gtx 512mb btw. I wanna be able to use my remaining total vid memory from sharing to allow high quality textures in gta

 

Maybe try setting some of those command line options for GTA: IV.

 

wat commands? tell m e plz

 

First go to your gtaiv dir (where gtalaucher is) create a txt file called - commandline and add the parameters there.

ex: -noprecache -nomemrestrict

Tools

-benchmark: Runs the benchmark tool and immediately exits game.
-help: Display list of all command line options

Graphics

-renderquality: Set the render quality of the game. (0-4)
-shadowdensity: Set the shadow density of the game. (0-16)
-texturequality: Set the texture quality of the game. (0-2)
-viewdistance: Set the view distance of the game (0-99)
-detailquality: Set the detail quality of the game. (0-99)
-novblank: Disable wait for vblank (No Vsync)
-norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings
-width: Set width of main render window (default is 800)
-height: Set height of main render window (default is 600)
-safemode: Run the graphics in the lowest setting possible
-frameLimit: Limit frame to interval of refresh rate (ex If refreshrate is 60HZ –frameLimit 1 = Locks down to 60HZ)
-refreshrate: Set the refresh rate of main render window – Warning - Monitor must support (ex. –refreshrate 60)
-fullscreen: Force fullscreen mode
-windowed: Force windowed mode
-availablevidmem: Set amount of physical Video Memory(ex. –availablevidmem 0.9)
-percentvidmem: Percentage of video memory to make available to GTA

Audio

-fullspecaudio: Force high-end CPU audio footprint
-minspecaudio: Force low-end CPU audio footprint

System

-noprecache: Disable precache of resources
-nomemrestrict: Disable memory restrictions

Let me tell you how i got this info!

It was right here: http://tinyurl.com/8rnn7x

 

oooh thanks


wait so will the file be called

commandline
or -commandline?


hmm.. still wont use shared memory

 

Sorry for the late reply, but here's the commands that might work for you:

The file should be called "commandline.txt".

Then inside it add " -nomemrestrict -availablevidmem 2.0 -norestrictions -percentvidmem 100". Make sure you notice the space before the nomemrestrict.