Is this correct? I'm just going to guess it's because of me playing on my tv at 1366x768, but I'm sure I only have 1 GB, not 12. http://i.imgur.com/ptnZOIv.png
Shouldn't it be 5 GB in total? (4GB RAM + 1GB VRAM)
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It also includes some HDD space which is used as a VRAM Page File, which is why you just use RAM+VRAM as the calculation for SSDs (Because the constant writes to the Page File can lower the lifespan).
12960-4096-1024 = 7840MiB (~7.66GiB) which is used by the hard drive as a Page File.
The "-300MB" thing is used to improve stability, according to Boris (ENB Dev) subtracting this amount ensures that other applications have enough system memory and HDD space.
I don't understand, why doesn't the program just calculate that stuff by itself, it makes everything so confusing to anyone trying to use this.
In the worst case he could ask you to input some data and calculate it, it just seems kinda lazy.
I agree, but it does work.
From the Nexus page:
"Also when you have Skype, internet browsers and some other software, size of available video memory
is reduced and also leads to crashes. To avoid such issues you may set value
a bit lower than maximal, in general 300 mb less seems okay. At last, Windows
itself require some video memory, if i remember 120 mb for Win7, 180 for Win8."
Now I personally would have just had the program detect the OS and RAM/VRAM, then subtract the optimised values from there. Though in his defence it depends on the system I haven't subtracted 300 (32GB RAM + 4GB VRAM) and have been fine, but I suspect people with 8GB will probably need to more so.