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Dedicated VRAM
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:56 am
by Troy Martin
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
Re: Dedicated VRAM
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:27 pm
by suthers
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
Re: Dedicated VRAM
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:17 pm
by Troy Martin
Damn...
Ah well. Don't think I can get a new video card and put it into a laptop though
Re: Dedicated VRAM
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:33 pm
by suthers
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
Re: Dedicated VRAM
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:36 pm
by pcmattman
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.