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Hello all,
I am a new owner of a framework 13 AMD 370. I am blind and was having issues posting to the community. I tried to choose some tags and it appears if I remove the category description above what I am typing, the topic field disappears.
So I hope everyone can see this, so to speak lol.
TLDR, I want to play the last of us part 1, the last of us part 2, Forza Motorsport and Mortal Kombat 1. They all are accessible to blind players with text to speech/audio cues and I will try to set graphics performance as low as possible. I have 32GB Crucial 5600MHZ ram and a 4TB WD Sn850X..
Under bios, setup utility, advanced and GPU, what should I set memory allocation to? It is set to minimum, 500MB, other choices are Medium 8GB and high 16GB. I assume 8? Or leave as is since windows will take care of it?
If I add more ram later, will these choices change to reflect that?
Thanks!
AMD has made their GPUs in a way where they can access system memory and use it as VRAM whenever VRAM fills up. This means that if you only allocated 512MB of VRAM, the system will set aside 512MB of your 32GB of RAM just for the graphics card. Since this isn’t a lot, your GPU will start using system RAM as VRAM. This technology, which AMD calls Graphics Translation Table (GTT), allows GPUs to do this system of using system memory whenever video memory runs out. However, on Laptop systems, vram and system memory are already unified. This means that, to my understanding, by allocating a larger amount of VRAM for your GPU on a unified system only changes how much is explicitly just for the GPU. If you set the VRAM to 8GB on a 32GB system, that means that your CPU can only use 24GB of memory and your GPU gets 8GB just for itself. If you know that you’re not doing anything memory intensive, you can go ahead and do that. However, if you are both doing memory intesive work and also gaming, I think just setting it on 512MB should fine.
Unless you know you ALWAYS need a certain amount of VRAM, it’s best to set VRAM to the minimum setting in BIOS. The AMD Ryzen AI APU will utilize up to 50% of the system memory dynamically, as needed by the iGPU. See this comment for add’l context and AMD’s documentation to configure shared memory using amd-ttm (this is generally unnecessary except if you want to change the defaults).
For your gaming scenario, a pre-allocated VRAM might make some difference, but I don’t expect anything major. Nonetheless, it might be worth starting with minimum VRAM allocation and relying on dynamic shared memory. If you notice any issues that bother you, test medium/high pre-allocated VRAM and see if that addresses your issues. However, the amount of RAM pre-allocated to the iGPU will not be usable by the rest of the system.
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the responses. It is set to 8 GB right now and as post 3 said, under system info, it is showing 23 or so GB free. I’ll see how that works and will switch back if anything odd happens.
I unfortunately need sighted assistance to get in to bios since a screen reader or even some kind of specific TTS bios reader needs a sound driver to run and of course those don’t load in bios.
It is the holy grail for blind tech folks to get some kind of talking bios going. I heard years ago that Lenovo/HP or somebody had, or has, an app that ran in windows and allowed bios changes but have never seen it.
It sounds like speed more than capacity matters in this case so adding more ram won’t make much of a difference?
Thanks
I have friends who also need screen readers etc. To use computers.
I am amazed that somehow none of the laptop bios are accessible.
If one could plug a slot card in that then meant the bios output messages on the serial port, that would probably be enough. Text output on a serial port is very easy to turn into speech or braille.