GTA Vice City

[Guest]

heres my situation
this game ran kinda slow at times(GTA VC) so then I upgraded my mem to 2 sticks of 256 which would give me 512mb ram.
it just sees 480mb for some reason. it was like this before when it had just one stick of 256 in it. it didnt show the full mem. to begin with. The game played fine before the upgrade in memory. I have uninstalled it reinstalled got the patch I have done everything short of shooting the computer!! The only thing I have not done yet is take the memory I put in out and try to play it like that. This is the only game I have so I have no way to test to see if it is just this game or something else with my computer.
HP Pavillion 524
Windows Version
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Service Pack
BIOS Version
KM266 - 42302e31/AM3730
CPU Type
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100
CPU Speed
1731 MH
L2 Cache Size
25
L2 Cache Speed
57
Video Controller
S3 Graphics ProSavageDD
Video Memory
32 MB

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi DJ,

You can download another 3D game from microsoft.com/games
since they have Trial versions available there. That will help you
determine if it's GTA VC or your system that is causing the issue.

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| heres my situation:
| this game ran kinda slow at times(GTA VC) so then I upgraded my mem to 2 sticks of 256 which would give me 512mb ram.
| it just sees 480mb for some reason. it was like this before when it had just one stick of 256 in it. it didnt show the full mem.
to begin with. The game played fine before the upgrade in memory. I have uninstalled it reinstalled got the patch I have done
everything short of shooting the computer!! The only thing I have not done yet is take the memory I put in out and try to play it
like that. This is the only game I have so I have no way to test to see if it is just this game or something else with my computer.
| HP Pavillion 524w
| Windows Version:
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Service Pack 1
| BIOS Version:
| KM266 - 42302e31/AM37307
| CPU Type:
| AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
| CPU Speed:
| 1731 MHz
| L2 Cache Size:
| 256
| L2 Cache Speed:
| 577
| Video Controller:
| S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR
| Video Memory:
| 32 MB

 

[Anthony Procissi [MSFT]]

I'll bet your graphics card is onboard and has 32MB of "Shared Memory"...
and though I'm unsure on exactly how that works; I suspect it means the
graphics chip has no independent physical memory of its own and is allocated
system memory.... so, the OS has 512 minus the 32 set aside for graphics =
480.
....ol' "Punch Card Jimmy" will be around soon and I'm sure he'll be able to
elaborate on that.

As for the poor performance, 32megs of video memory is the minimum system
requirement for Vice City... some slowness isn't too surprising...

How slow is this slow you're talking about?

 

[E McCann]

Well, the amounts of memory you mention just about work out for that 32 Mb
video RAM to have been taken from main memory... shared video is a horrible
thing.

heres my situation:
this game ran kinda slow at times(GTA VC) so then I upgraded my mem to 2

sticks of 256 which would give me 512mb ram.

it just sees 480mb for some reason. it was like this before when it had

just one stick of 256 in it. it didnt show the full mem. to begin with. The
game played fine before the upgrade in memory. I have uninstalled it
reinstalled got the patch I have done everything short of shooting the
computer!! The only thing I have not done yet is take the memory I put in
out and try to play it like that. This is the only game I have so I have no
way to test to see if it is just this game or something else with my
computer.

 

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GTA Vice City - this is cool game!!! I`m in Russian - the Mcrosoft RULEZ !!!! Microsoft RULEZ !!!

 

[E McCann]

ooo...kay.... why not let Rockstar Games (who actually makes the game) know?

GTA Vice City - this is cool game!!! I`m in Russian - the Mcrosoft RULEZ
!!!! Microsoft RULEZ !!!