VRamSizeTest v1.0

[ENBSeries]

VRamSizeTest (Video memory size test)

This tool helps users of ENBoost to setup it properly and for to some others who purchased hardware with huge amount of video memory and not able to utilise it (in case of fake size or driver limitation).
Size is not just vram, driver handle some amount of system memory like vram, this is slower down games only when not enough vram available, on practice performance drop is not very huge and only annoying when game heavily modded while engine is not capable to provide proper streaming based on texture lods.

[wolfgrimdark]

This may be very obvious to most folks ... but what would be the reason for Dx9 version to give different memory amount than the Dx11? I have both on my win7 64b system. When I run the tools Dx9 is much lower amount then Dx11. Is the amount more what the Dx version can use versus an absolute amount?

Dx9 gives 13952
Dx11 gives 27854

Based on what you wrote in the readme sounds like13952 is the amount to use with Skyrim since using Dx9 version of enbboost.

[ENBSeries]

It's driver dependent only. My dx9 reports only 4 gb for 2gb physical vram with 16 gb ram on win7 x64. The bigger - the better.

[SkyrimTuner]

Thanks for this tool. very helpful indeed!
i've spent many hours trying to include something similar into my installer, but failed.

i'm thinking of including it into RealVision installation to have proper settings from now.

2 questions:

1. would be nice if this tool could output the value into a txt-file instead of a window by parameter on start, possible?
2. am i allowed to upload it here? http://forum.skyrimtuner.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=570

best greetings

[snsmac]

I seem to have problem with your tools:
1. The dx9 version allocates ~500mb memory and exits the without showing anything
2. the dx11 verson shows ~27 gb of memory, on an win7 64bit, 18gb ram, 2gb vram.
I dont run any tool like msi afterburner

[ENBSeries]

SkyrimTuner
1) I don't see any point in such feature. It's made for informative purposes only and not supposed to be inside the mod.
2) Yes.

snsmac
This is not the wrapper, it's just 3d application like any game. I can't do anything, any bugs means all the same crapware, stupid antiviruses, bad drivers and buggy browsers.
How do you know amount of memory it allocates if it crashes and do not display any message?

[SkyrimTuner]

@Boris:
Okay, thanks for answering. i will inform my users about this new tool so that they can take advantage of it in the case they decided to use manually installation.
and also my installer will be reworked a bit, maybe i will delete the VRAM detection part.

[snsmac]

@Boris when i look into taskmanger(not the most professional tool i see the memoryy usage of it, but it shows no window and after some time the application closes. No window opens at all in the dx9 version

[ENBSeries]

snsmac
Window is created for very short period of time just at the moment of memory allocation, then it's destroyed and message box appears with result. If you see first window for too long, something slow down application, because even with old amd cpu this test was exectuted very fast - 0.3 sec for WinXP. I hope you don't tell me it's Win10. Another important thing, this tool do not allocate ram more than standart application with libraries (about 80 mb), when i say it allocates vram+some ram it means driver allocates, any memory measurement on application will not show anything. From my point of view, pc with such bugs is unplayable garbage.

[Marty McFly]

I don't quite get how this amount of memory I get displayed can exceed my RAM+VRAM (16GB+4GB vs 26 GB). Is a part on the disk or is 1 unit of this memory not equal to a physical unit of the same size?