video shadow RAM

[Guest]

Hi.

I already got one person's opinion, but I'd like to have a few more.

Under Windows XP Home Edition fully updated, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB videoram
Nvidia Geforce FX5200, is it a good idea to set the Bios to enable to shadow
video RAM (I hope I said it right) ? I don't think I tax the graphics hard,
I'm not used to playing games. ( I changed something in my Bios to fix a
problem, but I don't recall if the original setting was enable or disable
shadow video RAM)

Would the right answer be different if I'd be a hard-core game player ?

Thanks for any insight.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I don't believe that Windows would take advantage of this, at the moment. I
seem to recall a web forum post (??) which states that Windows (or XP) ignores
this.

 

[Jerry]

"The BIOS Companion" ISBN 0-9681928-0-7 does not recommend any of these
memory shadow items be enabled at all if running Windows

 

[frodo]

No, you do NOT want any shadow ram enabled in the bios, of any kind. XP
will never make use of it, and it'll go unused. Do not "shadow" or
"cache" any ROMS.

[This "feature" made a diff long ago, not today].

 

[Jonny]

Isn't that a remnant of use for old msdos games only?