Question about video cards!

[Guest]

I got a new game called "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" for my PC yesturday. But what I didn't see what that I need a 32MB memory video card to use it, currently I have an 8MB memory video card. I have 256 memory, and I heard that you can transfer some of the unused memory from there to my memory card, so I don't have to buy a whole new video card. Is this possible, and if so how?

 

[DL]

You need a new card

I got a new game called "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" for my

PC yesturday. But what I didn't see what that I need a 32MB memory video
card to use it, currently I have an 8MB memory video card. I have 256
memory, and I heard that you can transfer some of the unused memory from
there to my memory card, so I don't have to buy a whole new video card. Is
this possible, and if so how?

 

[Guest]

Really? Just like that? There is no switch somewhere or properties that I can allocate some of my 256 RAM to the video card?

 

[Mario Quintanar]

He want to mean that you need a new card because the 8m
cards, not are Graphic Accelerator, is just a vga display,
but dont have a graphic proccesor unit.

You can't run the game whit just a vga display card.

If you see the requeriments of the game, you can confirm
that it need a graphic accelerator (3D cards), whit at
least 32mb of ram memory.

Even when you can allocate more memory to your vga
display, it dont work for the game.

There is not other solution.

Excuseme my english please

-----Original Message-----
Really? Just like that? There is no switch somewhere or

properties that I can allocate some of my 256 RAM to the
video card?

 

[Jetro]

Anthony,

If the BIOS permits, you could increase the amount of video memory. But if
you want to play the modern games and enjoy, you definitely need stand-alone
AGP video adapter (not on-board). Don't be confused with on-board video
characteristics you could find in the motherboard manual such as
'3D-hardware accelerator'. Playing games on on-board video sucks, despite of
its' full SVGA and 3D capability.

 

[CapFusion]

Normally an onboard display adaptor do not support game require DX9 but DX8
or 7. At the same time it sharing bandwidth with your system memory and AND
using FP on your CPU. So your system being heaverily TAX.And eventhough you
old game full fill the "minum requrement" like DX8 for example, your game
may run but not enjoyable. Your onboard Display was not meant to be use to
play game but for general application.

CapFusion,...

 

[Jetro]

Game support is mainly a hardware-related issue, i.e. whether the video
chipset supports specific instructions or not. Au contraire, DirectX support
is software-related and partially depends on the manufacturer's graphics
drivers.
'Normally' latest drivers support latest version of DirectX - this is the
one of video/graphics interface standards.

 

[JAX]

Mario,

Your English is quite adequate to explain the subject.

JAX

 

[D.Currie]

Really? Just like that? There is no switch somewhere or properties that

I can allocate some of my 256 RAM to the video card?

If you have a separate video card it has what it has and there's no way to
make it use system memory. If it's on-board video, you might be able to use
more system ram, but that's dependent on the motherboard. You're really
better off with a better video card if you want to use graphics-intensive
games. The 64-Mb cards aren't that expensive any more.

 

[Mario Quintanar]

Thanks JAX!

-----Original Message-----
Mario,

Your English is quite adequate to explain the subject.

JAX




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