How to Find a Computer's Video Memory. Like computers, graphics cards use RAM to store active data -- and like PCs, in many cases, the more RAM available to a card, the better the card will perform.

Look for the current video RAM listed next to Dedicated Video Memory. Under the Display Information, you’ll see the name of your NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, depending on the kind of device you own.

If you see Insufficient Memory - You don’t have enough system and video memory to start the game, even on your powerful gaming PC, see this post.

Well, the subject pretty much said it all. Is there any way to tweak the Video ram of my computer (a 1.1ghz Athlon 128mb RAM, with an 8mb Nvidia TNT2 Vanta LT video card) so that I can have more ...

Another common term, especially in the video game space, is VRAM (video RAM). Although once a stand-alone piece of technology, VRAM is currently used to denote dedicated memory on the graphics card.

System RAM shouldn’t be confused with the dedicated memory used by discrete graphic cards. High-end 3D games rely on video RAM, or VRAM, to temporarily store image data, like textures.

If an appropriately large video memory is available in addition to the normal RAM, your PC can display complex scenes and 3D objects much faster without running out of RAM.