nameplate draw distance (vram problem?)

[Verdyn]

I'm having trouble with nameplates displaying in crowded areas.

In Coerthas Central Highlands doing fates -- mobs and nameplates will not show up. The draw distance for nameplates appears to be based on the position of the camera. Doing fates there are probably 50+ players in the area at a time with 20+ pets. Of those I can maybe see 10-20 at a time.

Is there a way to increase the draw distance for them, or the number that will show up?

After watching my VRAM use for a while I'm thinking this is the source of the problem. The game appears to be capped at 1 gig. It doesn't matter where I go my VRAM use will not go above 1100MB. So I'm thinking the game is using 1 gig and other windows are using the rest. My graphics cards have 3 gigs of VRAM and usage varies between 50-70% at 60 fps cap. So, it shouldn't be a hardware issue. *edit* Maxing the graphics settings will cause the VRAM to go above 1 gig of use, but it doesn't fix the nameplate problem.

Thanks for the help.