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increasing shared vram?
« on: April 13, 2008, 10:04:59 PM »
i noticed that in windows, my graphics card information registers as 512MB...after surfing teh webz, i found that it still has my 256mb dedicated with some memory shared making it 512...is there a way to increase the shared memory? if so is there somthign bad with this?
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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2008, 10:18:38 PM »
Shared memory... It's a double-edged blade.
When you share your memory, you're taking that amount from your RAM, and putting it to your video card. As far as I know, this only happens when you use an on board video card (Which surprises me that you have such a large amount of vram in an onboard video card), and once again, as far as I know, it isn't possible to increase or decrease it.
There might be a tool out there to do so, but I use a PCI-E card, so I can't really tell ya.

Also, to answer your question:
Upsides:
•More video ram for larger screens
Downsides:
•Takes away RAM
•Can cause you to use HDD for RAM, which really slows down the comp
•Can't be changed, so you always will lose that extra 256mb of ram, no matter what you do.
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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2008, 11:51:17 PM »
My computer shares ~750 megs of its ram for the video card, giving it a total of ~1250 megs of VRAM (512 physical)
I'm not to worried about the ram loss because I'm packing 8 gigs of it  :#1:
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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2008, 12:05:54 AM »
your MBP has 4 Gigs right?

Well 512mb total should be fine, you will honestly see very little difference running it at 1440 x 900 or any connected screens res unless its abot 1920 x 1080 (The games coding that is)
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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2008, 04:24:54 PM »
Quote from: MattZani on April 14, 2008, 12:05:54 AM
your MBP has 4 Gigs right?

Well 512mb total should be fine, you will honestly see very little difference running it at 1440 x 900 or any connected screens res unless its abot 1920 x 1080 (The games coding that is)
i dont Think hes talking about his MBP Look.
Quote from: noah03ark on April 13, 2008, 10:04:59 PM
i noticed that in windows, my graphics card information registers as 512MB...after surfing teh webz, i found that it still has my 256mb dedicated with some memory shared making it 512...is there a way to increase the shared memory? if so is there somthign bad with this?
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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 05:24:53 PM »
Quote from: PsychoticWolf on April 14, 2008, 04:24:54 PM
i dont Think hes talking about his MBP Look.
no, i am


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Re: increasing shared vram?
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2008, 06:35:57 PM »
Quote from: noah03ark on April 14, 2008, 05:24:53 PM
no, i am


dualbooting via bootcamp

Oh crazy Cool man I miss my MBP.
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