FPS Drop - Settings normalizes FPS
Hello! I recently upgraded to Windows 11. I have also upgraded my CPU and ram. Sims ran amazing before these upgrades, but it's been acting strangely lately. I'm running at a constant 60 fps (vsync)...
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@puzzlezaddict If you disconnect one of the monitors that will be 8Gb of main memory NOT USED by the video system for frame buffer. I stand by my statement that I think the system is using main memory for video frame buffer. That is what shared memory is. Each monitor has it's own shared memory. The math tells it all. When you run out of main memory that's when the operating system pages blocks of main memory to virtual memory which is surprise called the page file. The operating system manages this movement of data. The operating system does not know what the data is other then a block of data which could be part of the frame buffer or not. Even if it is not part of the frame buffer other data will get moved and that requires cpu time. Again if you remove one monitor from the system that will returns 8Gb of memory back to the system which may or may not solve the issue and while it may not solve it issue completely it will probably lessen the problem. It is a quick and simple test.
@roberta591 Again, you're misreading the info in the dxdiag. The stats you're referencing pertain to the graphics card; the monitors themselves do not use any system memory. They receive a signal from the graphics card and display it. The graphics card can use system memory, but that doesn't mean it is using it or that the memory is reserved. The GPU will only reach for system memory when its own VRAM is fully committed.
So no, disconnecting the monitor will not free up 8 GB of system memory, because that system memory is already not being used.
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