[Craig Fairfax]

I felt like playing some bioshock, and my computer is telling me that out of 3.50 GB of ram only 2.75 is usable. Is this normal? If not why is it telling me this?


Also when playing bioshock I have noticed very very very very minor graphical stuttering. is this because of my monitor (actually a TV) or because I have the cheapest ram I could find.

 

[Seth]

Are you running A 32bit windows OS?

 

[Craig Fairfax]

Are you running A 32bit windows OS?

jeah.

 

[Chathurga]

jeah.

You'll need to get on a 64bit OS to be able to use the rest of the ram.

Edit: Or maybe not, this always confuses the shit outa me.

 

[twelve]

I'm guessing it is Vista as well. In which case having 750MB in use isn't that unusual (shouldn't be like it at all times though).

 

[Craig Fairfax]

It's windows 7.

Would difference be noticeable enough. reformatting is one of my least favourite things.

 

[Adiuvo]

A 32 bit OS can only use 3 gigs of ram, though 2.75 is a weird number. What's your FPS in Bioshock on average?

 

[ilyace]

A 32 bit OS can only use 3 gigs of ram, though 2.75 is a weird number. What's your FPS in Bioshock on average?

3.5 gigs

 

[Craig Fairfax]

A 32 bit OS can only use 3 gigs of ram, though 2.75 is a weird number. [HIGHLIGHT]What's your FPS in Bioshock on average?[/HIGHLIGHT]

How do I find that out.

 

[twelve]

*frap frap frap*

 

[Craig Fairfax]

Okay, the little yellow numbers at the corner of my screen say 60 most of the time.

 

[ilyace]

60fps on average is actually not bad at all

 

[Craig Fairfax]

It does drop as low as 51, but for the most part it's at 60.

 

[LocutusEstBorg]

3.5 gigs

No you're all wrong. It can access 4GiB worth of hardware addresses. Which means the more hardware components you have the less usable ram. If you have no extra components including no GPU then you can use around 3.5GiB of memory. If your GPU has 1GiB then you can access only around 2.5GiB etc.

 

[Adiuvo]

It does drop as low as 51, but for the most part it's at 60.

You shouldn't be stuttering at all then. Make sure you have V-Sync on, and if that doesn't do anything then I have no idea.

 

[LocutusEstBorg]

Bioshock stutters on many PCs. It stutters badly on mine too. The game is crap, period.

 

[Craig Fairfax]

You shouldn't be stuttering at all then. Make sure you have V-Sync on, and if that doesn't do anything then I have no idea.

Putting vsync on actually helped it a lot. thank you.

Bioshock stutters on many PCs. It stutters badly on mine too. The game is crap, period.

I guess, I'll live with it, it's not as bad now as it was before.