On May 4, 6:44*am, Benjamin Gawert <bgaw...@gmx.de> wrote:
> * kd833:
>
> > Before I added system RAM (now 2GB) to my notebook, the system RAM
> > count and the video frame buffer count made some sort of sense. Now I
> > can't figure out what XP and ATI is telling about my system RAM and
> > video RAM configuration. This is what I see now: XP system props says
> > system RAM = 1.98GB, XP display props says video adaptor size = 700MB,
> > ATI video display porps says video frame buffer = 16MB. Nothing seems
> > to add up. The card specs says it will support 256MB of video RAM.
> > Where is the 700MB adaptor size coming from? I can find no ultility
> > that wil tell me how much video RAM is "in use" or tell me how much
> > system RAM is being used by the video card other than believing the
> > 16MBs has been set aside for the video card. Is there something like
> > that out there? Please point me to it. TIA
>
> Your Radeon Xpress 1150 is a shared memory solution that has no own
> graphics memory. It uses a part of the system memory for graphics, the
> amount it uses is dynamically assigned. The 1150 can allocate up to
> 256MB as graphics memory. The ATI control panel shows you how much
> currently is in use (16MB). Windowsxp shows you the maximum amount
> useable for graphics (graphics memory + size available for texture
> swapping into standard RAM) which is 700MB.
>
> All these numbers are meaningless as the Xpress 1150 is very slow and
> hardly useable for demanding 3D applications or games, and for 2D
> application (where it is fast enough) very little memory is actually
> used. So I wouldn't worry about that.
>
> Benjamin
Thanks. So the 700MB is not really stolen from the system. Windows is
just indicating that 700MB could be available for graphics if needed.
You are correct about the 2D/3D uses. This is just a business PC and
not use for gaming.
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