My video card has no dedicated memory in it. All 384 MB is shared. Is there any way I can change it to set aside at least 128 MB for gaming?
Thanks,
Troy
Dedicated VRAM
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I wish I could add more texSolar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
Re: Dedicated VRAM
Dedicated means it's on the board...
You can't change that....
Shared means it's still used for the card, but it's taken from your system's ram so it's much slower (as it's not on the card) and it takes memory away from your system so it downgrades performance there too...
Jules
You can't change that....
Shared means it's still used for the card, but it's taken from your system's ram so it's much slower (as it's not on the card) and it takes memory away from your system so it downgrades performance there too...
Jules
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Re: Dedicated VRAM
Damn...
Ah well. Don't think I can get a new video card and put it into a laptop though
Ah well. Don't think I can get a new video card and put it into a laptop though
I wish I could add more texSolar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
Re: Dedicated VRAM
No you can't unfortunately, there are some companies that have made replaceable video cards in some of there models such as the Alienware area-51 m5500...
But it isn't a common thing...
But Nvidia are moving towards a standard mobile slot (MXM) that will hopefully quite soon allow us to be able to change graphics cards in laptops with Nvidia graphics solutions...
Jules
But it isn't a common thing...
But Nvidia are moving towards a standard mobile slot (MXM) that will hopefully quite soon allow us to be able to change graphics cards in laptops with Nvidia graphics solutions...
Jules
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Re: Dedicated VRAM
You can actually change the amount of shared RAM that the onboard video uses, but it's BIOS-dependent (so might not be available for you) and doesn't always work.