Nvidia GeForce 6200

[Guest]

Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM, and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest driver!

 

[Tom Scales]

Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM,
and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest
driver!

Because you likely have a "6200 with TurboCache". Sounds cool, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, what it means is that some of your 128MB comes from system
memory and there really is only 32MB on the card.

Not positive this is your problem, but sounds likely. You can read more
about this scam (called hypermemory in the ATI world) at

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce6200_pci

Tom

 

[John Doe]

Odd, I use the same type of card with the latest driver and it works fine
with Aero, for the most part. The only glitch I get is what appears to be a
common one with every Geforce card and Vista, and that is the screen capture
bug that occurs when the desktop compositing is enabled.

 

[John Doe]

But I agree with Tom above. You probably don't have one that really has 128
MB, so mine probably isn't exactly like yours, since I avoided the
TurboCache versions like the plague.

 

[JW]

Do you have the latest MCE driver or the latest Vista Beta X86 driver? which
is:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_88.61.html

 

[Conor]

Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM, and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest driver!

You can't because it isn't missing. Your card only has 32MB and, like
AGP cards, uses system RAM for the rest.

 

[Tom Scales]

You can't because it isn't missing. Your card only has 32MB and, like
AGP cards, uses system RAM for the rest.

Not all AGP cards use system ram 'for the rest'. Neither my ATI 9800 Pro
nor my nVidia 6600 do.

 

[Roy Coorne]

Tom Scales scribbled:

Not all AGP cards use system ram 'for the rest'. Neither my ATI 9800 Pro
nor my nVidia 6600 do.

Even not all GeForce 6200 AGP cards use system RAM - there are GF 6200
with 'real' 128 or 256 MB VRAM (e.g. by Asus).

Roy