A tricky question for a computer technician (could be software or hardware?) solve it if you dare

Is anyone Computer Technician or have a relevant experience with computers software or hardware?

I wanna ask how is it possible for a graphics card to lose memory and go from 512MB to 14MB? and what exactly is causing it.

How exactly do you know it only has 14MB available? Perhaps try a gpu memory test, google gave me CUDA: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/ ?

My guess would be your computer has integrated graphics and your graphics card is after market. Is the monitor cable connected to your video card or the default video out? Can you select between two different display adapters?

Does your graphics card have removable memory? Take it out and put it back in (with the computer unplugged of course)

Most modern OSs can't even boot with 14mb of memory. Maybe you should post your OS, and other specs. Is this a PC, laptop, tablet, etc? What specifically told you that you went from 512mb to 14mb?

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Graklak wrote:

a graphics card to lose memory and go from 512MB to 14MB

To summarize the posts above: pic (screenshot) or it didn't happen. PrSc key is your friend.

It is probably an integrated video card and someone tuned the amount of RAM shared between the video card and the O/S such that less RAM was available for the video card.

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SkyCore wrote:

How exactly do you know it only has 14MB available? Perhaps try a gpu memory test, google gave me CUDA: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/ ?

My guess would be your computer has integrated graphics and your graphics card is after market. Is the monitor cable connected to your video card or the default video out? Can you select between two different display adapters?

Does your graphics card have removable memory? Take it out and put it back in (with the computer unplugged of course)

You have absolutly right but i cant do all of these im kinda noob at the hardware part.

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

Most modern OSs can't even boot with 14mb of memory. Maybe you should post your OS, and other specs. Is this a PC, laptop, tablet, etc? What specifically told you that you went from 512mb to 14mb?

Im sure path of exile dont run on a tablet :) im having a laptop sony vaio 18.5" wide and basically its a huge heavy beast and his name is Goliath :)

Speccy did, thats the tool i used :)

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Graklak wrote:

a graphics card to lose memory and go from 512MB to 14MB

To summarize the posts above: pic (screenshot) or it didn't happen. PrSc key is your friend.

I know buddy :)

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

It is probably an integrated video card and someone tuned the amount of RAM shared between the video card and the O/S such that less RAM was available for the video card.

Um about that...i read hella of a lot forums and i wanna ask, how is this possible? i mean can i do it manually? to give my graphics an extra boost?

And yea its sticked on motherboard, its basically a chip, but i dont think its using memory of the system insted of its own. I used to work on this laptop and play heavy games with multiple mods. So i dont think it does not have its own memory, correct me if im wrong

i do have 14MB memory on graphics check the images on imgur from speccy you will see it says 14 MB, and i was not the one who actually saw that xD it was my friend and then it hit me.

I posted everything on imgur about my specs, temperatures and tell me if anything else is needed.

http://imgur.com/a/7vmur

Device manager

http://imgur.com/DjWEiY2

How i did this, i first checked for drivers to see if they are working properly or if im missing anything because i format my 2 hard drives recently. So it seems drivers in device manager are ok, im not missing anything, atleast that what it says >.>

NEXT

Basic Information about your computer

http://imgur.com/XEnkabg

So it seems ram is still 4GB xD good good, it happens to me once to witness smth like not seeing the amount it should that's why i wanted to see if ram was ok...and it is :D

NEXT

Speccy Overview System

http://imgur.com/7ssDD5d

This tool btw is very usefull and i recommend it to anyone who wanna have a detailed overview of his computer, it literally tells everything :D and you can see temperatures as well, Ok so here you can see pretty much everything as well the graphics card saying it has 14MB

Operating System info

http://imgur.com/OdgCneM





Operating System info page 2

http://imgur.com/S1LINva





CPU - Central processing unit

http://imgur.com/PaWu3k9





Ram - Random-access memory

http://imgur.com/Agfz79j





Ram - Random-access memory page 2

http://imgur.com/0laOqwW





Mother board

http://imgur.com/05P9A53





Graphics

http://imgur.com/Ra30K94





DirectX Diagnostic Tool

http://imgur.com/X1cTYFX





Someone said this to me from steam and tbh i didn't fully understood what he meant








Will post more info and things im learning about the current issue so stay tune. Tell me if i forgot to post any information.

It's definitely possible that Speccy is giving false readings. It wouldn't be the first time someone got false readings from Speccy. And considering your hardware is really old, I think that could increase the likelihood of a potential false reading.

I've personally seen false readings with other programs. For example, HW monitor tells me my PSU's 12v rail hit 1.5v-ish on the 12v rail while gaming. I know there is no possible way that could have happened in reality because my PC would have shut off if that were the case. Later versions of HW monitor work fine, and that false reading no longer happens.

I've also seen glitches with MSI afterburner telling me I have a different GPU than I actually have, with the core clock and memory clock speeds being way off. This happened after updating my GPU drivers. Had to wipe/reinstall the drivers and do a wipe/reinstall of MSI to fix it. By wipe, I mean get rid of all traces of that said program on your PC including leftover registry entries.

What I suggest you do is uninstall speccy, wipe all registry entries related to it, then reinstall it. Even if it still gives you a false reading afterwards, it doesn't mean something is wrong with your laptop. Unless you're having serious issues with your laptop's performance, I wouldn't be concerned.

FYI "Goliath" is a giant potato.

Video driver is missing or device can't be recognized, the testing program displays innacurate information as it can never test properly the integrated graphics, as a rule.

You got software issues to solve, or the descrete card is faulty. Don't count on wild guesses on the internet, there are no fortune tellers.

He's not using integrated graphics, his GPU is an Nvidia G96m.

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

FYI "Goliath" is a giant potato.

Goliath is offended >:3

lmao a giant potato xD

Nah his not a potato, his just having a bad period. I just need to find out why his having this fever

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torturo wrote:

Video driver is missing, the testing program displays innacurate information as it can't test properly the integrated graphics, as a rule.

You got software issues to solve, or the descrete card is faulty.

Hmm i will take in consideration your observation, why you thing the information speccy is displaying are inaccurate tho? btw this tool was introduced to me by a computer technician -.-

I will get mad if it is a broken shit tool, i was using that little buggler for atleast a couple years, atleast it was advising me...

Thank you guys for the help, advice, and the little informations you're sharing with me from your observation it really helps me to examine things from different angles. And i do hope its a software issue because i dont know much of laptop's hardware i only opened 3-4 in my whole life so i dont wanna play it pro with my potato Goliath... :3

I hope at'least im not wrong about the graphics, the problem must be around that point. At first i was suspecting the hard drive buffers. but i was not 100% sure, i still believe it must have to do with the graphics.


And to be honest its not only path of exile, i cannot load any game.