Crash/Freeze; I know what's wrong

(.FROST.) #1

It’s incredible. I ran “MemStatus 2.65” and it showed me…incredible, unbelieveable, that Brink uses EXACTLY ZERO MB from my graphic card and never more than ~1150MB system memory, wich is exactly 500MB more than in idle mode. As reference I’ve tested “Aliens versus Predator 3” wich uses ~1000MB(exclusively(with idle together 1650MB)) system memory and ~600MB from my graphic card.
I’m doing the math for you. AvP3 uses ~1600MB Ram in total and Brink only 500 and absolutely no memory from my graphic card.

I knew it was a memory thing. But I thought the memory(graphic card) was overflowing instead it isn’t in use at all.

(Moonlighter) #2

If it’s not showing any video card memory usage. It’s wrong. Video cards cannot operate without using video memory at the very least for the frame buffer.

(.FROST.) #3

Run memstatus and you will see. use a well programmed game as reference and you’ll see the difference. Do you even have the freeze problem? Because if not you certainly can’t reproduce “my” problem.

(.FROST.) #4

“Video cards cannot operate without using video memory…”

That’s exactly what happens.

(BUDA20) #5

OpenGL maybe shown different

try to check on other OpenGL based game.

(.FROST.) #6

Ok, I think you are right BUDA. Maybe it’s an OpenGLthing. I used DOOM 3 as reference and it showed no videomemory usage too. I’ve tested it with MemStatus and RivaTuner. MSI Afterburner isn’t able to show the memory usage of ATI cards at all.