Dedicated Video Memory? Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:57 am Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by IT in OK (2 messages posted) 5% of video cards memory is dedicated to Video, 95% is Shared System Memory. Planning to upgrade to GTX285 w/ 1GB but I do not want to invest the money if I can only have access to 52MB of video memory. PC setup: MB-EVGA 790i SLI FTW CPU-Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83ghz Memory-8GB (4x2GB) OCZ Fatal1ty DDR3 @1333ghz Video-EVGA Geforce 6200LE w/256MB (am waiting to upgrade to GTX285 until problem is resolved) Windows 7 shows- Total Available Graphics Memory 319 Dedicated Video Memory 16 System Video Memory 0 Shared System Memory 303 All updates, and updated drivers, applied. Only BIOS settings include, no additional Video or Video Memory settings: Init Display - (Default) PCI Slot, or PCIe Slot, tried both. PCI Latency Timer (CLK) - (Default) 32, tried at 32 and maxed at 255. Maximum Payload Size - 4096 Any idea why I can play COD2 on a P-4 (3ghz), 3GB RAM, same video card, running XP Pro but not on this newly built system running Win7? Or maybe someone can tell me why Win7 feels it necessary to "share" 95% of my Video card's memory when it has access to 8 GB of RAM? Responses to this message: re: Dedicated Video Memory? (Steve: Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:06 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Dedicated Video Memory? (IT in OK: Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 6:57 am) re: Dedicated Video Memory? (Steve: Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 6:06 pm) re: Dedicated Video Memory? (IT in OK: Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 10:19 am) re: Dedicated Video Memory? (Steve: Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 3:56 pm) re: Dedicated Video Memory? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 7:30 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum