diff --git a/USERGUIDE.md b/USERGUIDE.md
index 57ec3a37a..210da9fb0 100644
--- a/USERGUIDE.md
+++ b/USERGUIDE.md
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ These are mostly technical settings.
 
 **VRAM limit**
 
-The amount of video RAM to use for the application. Defaults to 128 MiB which seems to work fine most of the time. The allowed range is 80 to 1024 MiB. If you try to set it lower or higher than this by passing such values as command line parameters or edit the es_settings.cfg file manually, ES-DE will log a warning and automatically adjust the value within the allowable range.
+The amount of video RAM to use for the application. Defaults to 256 MiB which seems to work fine most of the time. The allowed range is 80 to 1024 MiB. If you try to set it lower or higher than this by passing such values as command line parameters or edit the es_settings.cfg file manually, ES-DE will log a warning and automatically adjust the value within the allowable range.
 
 **Fullscreen mode (requires restart)** _(Unix only)_
 
diff --git a/es-core/src/Settings.cpp b/es-core/src/Settings.cpp
index c2eaf79c2..dc0dd8803 100644
--- a/es-core/src/Settings.cpp
+++ b/es-core/src/Settings.cpp
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ void Settings::setDefaults()
     #if defined(_RPI_)
     mIntMap["MaxVRAM"] = { 80, 80 };
     #else
-    mIntMap["MaxVRAM"] = { 128, 128 };
+    mIntMap["MaxVRAM"] = { 256, 256 };
     #endif
     #if defined (__unix__)
     mStringMap["FullscreenMode"] = { "normal", "normal" };