SH5 Mod Guide for Beginners

[Faamecanic]

I just re-installed SH5 after upgrading to Win7 64 Home Premium... my "analysis" looks just like Sobers... it is only recognizing 4GB. I have 8 GB + 1GB video RAM.

The other strange item on that same screen is it said my graphics driver is out of date. But I just downloaded the driver from Nvidia this past weekend after putting my rig back together...

[Hartmann]

Originally Posted by Faamecanic

I just re-installed SH5 after upgrading to Win7 64 Home Premium... my "analysis" looks just like Sobers... it is only recognizing 4GB. I have 8 GB + 1GB video RAM.

The other strange item on that same screen is it said my graphics driver is out of date. But I just downloaded the driver from Nvidia this past weekend after putting my rig back together...

I have the same "problem" with the graphic driver but i didn´t update the drivers and the game runs with no problems.

2500k , and Gforce 560 Ti

[Husksubsky]

googled the video ram thingy and got some complicated answers. seem a gfx card uses addresses in the higher area(above 4 gig for me so I m well off with my 64 bit system). But it uses it s own memory too. I understood it something like it used memory addresses so the normal ram couldn t use it. (I m on thin ice here)There were some cards that was worse than others when it came to stealing memory.some turbocache was blacklisted as well as onboard videocards.

[vlad29]

Hi guys!

Re. driver type detection:
Thats a known issue. Almost all users of nVidia cards now have driver version > 200. The game is old enough was developed for the drivers 190xxxx series. So in the message box (see Sober's post) the information is not displayed correctly. F.e., when I used 238.xx driver version, it was detected as 138.xxtoo oldDL ) But it's just a message (warning) box and have no any influence on the game-running process.

Re. RAM usage by video: I can confirm my nVidia GTX260 812 mb is stealing RAM. Nevertheless no negative issues (ctd, gamefreeze) detected dispite I've more than 80 mods (including 'heavy' mods earning lot's of RAM) installled

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by vlad29

Hi guys!

Re. driver type detection:
Thats a known issue. Almost all users of nVidia cards now have driver version > 200. The game is old enough was developed for the drivers 190xxxx series. So in the message box (see Sober's post) the information is not displayed correctly. F.e., when I used 238.xx driver version, it was detected as 138.xxtoo oldDL ) But it's just a message (warning) box and have no any influence on the game-running process.

Re. RAM usage by video: I can confirm my nVidia GTX260 812 mb is stealing RAM. Nevertheless no negative issues (ctd, gamefreeze) detected dispite I've more than 80 mods (including 'heavy' mods earning lot's of RAM) installled

Thanks for the info Vlad