Dedicated Video Memory

[Guest]

I recently installed 2 games on my PC: Age of Empires 3 and Roller Coaster
Tycoon 3, which are both reasonably old. I have a problem with running both
of the programs. When turning on Age of Empires 3 (AoE 3), a message pops up
that i do not meet the minimum requirement of 64 MB of Video memory. My card
has 224 MB. Once i try to run it the screen is all over the place. I tried a
few things and yet nothings seems to work. I noticed that the dedicated video
memory is set to 0 MB and the system video memory is set to 32 MB; could that
be the problem. If so how can i change the settings. Your help is much
appreciated.
THANK YOU.

 

[Paul Smith]

I recently installed 2 games on my PC: Age of Empires 3 and Roller Coaster
Tycoon 3, which are both reasonably old. I have a problem with running
both
of the programs. When turning on Age of Empires 3 (AoE 3), a message pops
up
that i do not meet the minimum requirement of 64 MB of Video memory. My
card
has 224 MB. Once i try to run it the screen is all over the place. I tried
a
few things and yet nothings seems to work. I noticed that the dedicated
video
memory is set to 0 MB and the system video memory is set to 32 MB; could
that
be the problem. If so how can i change the settings. Your help is much
appreciated.

This may not be changeable, dedicated memory refers to memory which is wired
into the graphics card directly.

What graphics card is in the machine? The only thing I can suggest is
making sure you've got the latest driver installed.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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[Andy [YaYa]]

This may not be changeable, dedicated memory refers to memory which is
wired into the graphics card directly.

What graphics card is in the machine? The only thing I can suggest is
making sure you've got the latest driver installed.

More than likely you have an integrated video card. (built into the
motherboard), a lot of these cards do not have their own video RAM, instead
they take some of your system RAM and use it as Video RAM, most games are OK
with this, some are not.

If this is a desktop computer, consider upgrading your video card. Maybe
your system ram while you're at it.

Upgrade your drivers first, might fix the problem.

-A.