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?
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