re: new nividia panel
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 9:49 am
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
You are stuck with whatever control panel is used in the version of the drivers you
have for for your card AND your operating system. The old picture you posted doesn't
work, the second one is for drivers and control used in XP or higher.
The operating system used or supported by the graphics card determines the options
you will have available as Win 9x can't support all the options that the card may
have been designed with.
As for the cards memory, the video cards whole control system doesn't work the same
as the computers main operating system that has to be loaded into and operated from
RAM on the motherboard. Video memory and the "system" on the graphics card operates
differently and with a totally different set of "rules" that are permenant in the
firmware, NOT by a software control system loaded into RAM which is what Windows
is. It can't be accessed or defragged. Wouldn't make a difference as the memory
is handled totally different than the memory on your motherboard. Even in systems
where the graphics controller uses a portion of the RAM on the motherboard (integrated
controllers), you can't access or defrag that part of the memory. It is operating
in a FIFO (First In First Out) scenerio and is contantly being written, moved, flushed,
as such it won't be holding any data in the same way that the RAM on your motherboard
will do to keep your computer running.
Memory optimizers used on Win 9X won't work on an NT system, even though some claim
to and will even show you a difference. They lie. The operating systems are totally
different and memory on an NT system is protected in a way that Win 9X can't be so
"pollution" and leftovers in a Win 9X system won't usually happen in an NT system
unless you have bad application code, drivers, malware etc. In rare cases, leaks
have popped up in NT but it is rare and tracked down fairly quickly and fixed.
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