re: Video Memory Friday, November 2, 2007 at 2:23 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan (132 messages posted) Actually, two things: First, I shouldn't automatically generalize about everyone's PC's. There are a few later models that will allow BIOS settings to be changed for aperture, etc., for graphics memory. If you check your BIOS at startup, you should be able to tell if yours will allow you to make changes. Second, make sure what GPU's are installed in Device Manager and disable any that are not applicable. Also, you can view details about the installed graphics adapter, which will tell you how much memory it has and how much is shared. Do this by clicking Start, Control Panel, under Appearance and Personalization click Adjust screen resolution, click the Advanced Settings button near the bottom, select the Adapter tab (if necessary). Near the middle of the displayed tab you'll see Total Available Graphics Memory, Dedicated, System Video Mem, and Shared. You might already know how to do this, but just in case... :) Last, make sure you have the latest drivers for this card by checking the nVidia site. Hope there's something here that helps sort this out. On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 11:10 am, sean wrote: >Sorry, my video card has 320mb, not 640mb. I forgot I bought the cheaper one....lol. >It is not integrated tho and when I check the display properties it say that it has >256 physical memory (nvidia driver glitch apparently) but it also says that I have >a total of 768mb of memory available which leads me to believe that it is sharing >system memory. Which I imagine is why when I look in the task manger that it says >it's using over 700mb of ram the processes add up to only about 200 and something. >WEIRD!!! > > > Written in response to: re: Video Memory (sean: Friday, November 2, 2007 at 12:10 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Video Memory (sean: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 6:52 am) re: Video Memory (jbmcmillan: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 6:57 am) re: Video Memory (sean: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 1:01 pm) re: Video Memory (Alan: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 9:08 am) re: Video Memory (sean: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 12:10 pm) re: Video Memory (Alan: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 2:23 pm) re: Video Memory (jbmcmillan: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 3:14 pm) re: Video Memory (sean: Fri, Nov 2, 2007, 4:34 pm) re: Video Memory (quick69gto: Mon, Nov 5, 2007, 9:15 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum