diff --git a/stage2/01-sys-tweaks/01-run.sh b/stage2/01-sys-tweaks/01-run.sh
index 37aa45a..3c5d82b 100755
--- a/stage2/01-sys-tweaks/01-run.sh
+++ b/stage2/01-sys-tweaks/01-run.sh
@@ -113,10 +113,11 @@ echo "========== Install picamera  ============"
 sudo pip install "picamera[array]==1.12"
 
 
-# enable camera on raspi-config
+# enable camera on raspi-config and allocate more ram to the GPU
 echo "" >> /boot/config.txt
 echo "#enable piCaera" >> /boot/config.txt
 echo "start_x=1" >> /boot/config.txt
+echo "gpu_mem=256" >> /boot/config.txt