graphics card problems

[Guest]

Hi,

I currently have a sony vaio laptop with a Nvidia Geforce Go 6200 graphics
card. When I upgraded to Vista I began having problems playing games, many
told me that I only have 32 mb of dedicated memory to my graphics card.
However, initially in XP the video card had 128 mb of dedicated memory. Is
this simply a driver issue? If so what driver might I be able to installed
that would fix this issue? Or is there a simpler solution to the problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dingo]

hi bill it sounds like you dont have enough memory on your grapics
card,.you might need another card but first..what kind of vista OS you have?

 

[Guest]

Dingo,

I am currently running Vista Business. The graphics card should have 128 mb
of dedicated memory, at least it did when I was running XP pro. Thanks for
the help.

 

[dingo]

well ive had a problem like that now,i cant play halo on my pc with vista
premium and i have a nvida geforce 3200 with 256mb,i think like my self we
need more memory to run vista and games on it to.

 

[BigJim]

on my desktop when I run a game on xp I can run all setting on high. On
Vista that same game will run on medium or low settings. Same computer, just
setup a separate drive for Vista. So I am guessing that Vista uses memory
from the video card to run in the background and you now have less for
gaming.
The game I was using is Quake 4, btw I have a 128 meg nvidia card 6800gt.

 

[dingo]

well thats it,now just need to find a way to let vista have only a small
part of your video card rather than allmost all of the card?!,dose anyone
know to do this?? please reply. "BigJim"