Does minimizing(not closing) a window reduce the amount of video

[Guest]

Does minimizing(not closing) a window reduce the amount of video memory being
used while the window is minimized?

 

[Bob I]

No

 

[Vagabond Software]

Does minimizing(not closing) a window reduce the amount of video memory
being
used while the window is minimized?

If I recall correctly, it won't reduce the amount of video memory being
used, but it will reduce what the computer has to render. On older low end
video cards, the CPU handled a lot of the 'drawing' load. So, if you have a
computer that is on the edge in terms of system requirements, you can make
life a little better by minimizing windows, switching to classic mode, etc.

carl

 

[David Candy]

A minimised program is given preference to being swapped out. Therefore if there is some other use for memory a minimised program will give up it's memory. Generally most programs do nothing while minimised - in which case regular tuning will reduce it's memory to zero anyway (a non minimised program is getting tons of messages from windows - mostly mouse moved from xy to xy so tuning won't take all it's memory).

From a program's perspective memory is swapped to other memory and if needed from there to disk.

I can't comment on the specifics of video memory - but I suspect it also uses zero memory while minimised.

 

[Bob I]

Video memory use is determined by screen resolution and color depth (3D
rendered objects aside) Those aren't changed by minimizing an application.