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    Acer stole 40% of Aspire5920 RAM for marketing purpouses???

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by SDX, Mar 18, 2008.

  1. SDX

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    Hey, I am now heavily using my Acer A5920 with Vista and standard 2GB of RAM and I noticed that memory usage under non-gaming use is limited to 59-60% or about 1.2GB. I mean ALWAYS. I have Firefox with 20-40tabs open, several Big pdf files and couple of open 100+MB Open office documents and I noticed, that when I load another 100+MB file, instead of using extra memory Windows cashes other programs and memory usage is on the same 60% level :mad: :mad: :mad:

    It feels that TurboCache for GF 8600M GT is using it's 7xxMB of RAM exclusively and always! Everyone knows that even 512MB of total video memory is more than enough for the speed and power of GF8600, but because of that ridiculous "1GB video memory" bull**** we loose 0.75GB of RAM which is actually there!!! :mad:
    Even if I would be cautious about video memory shortage I would set TurboCache to use no more than 256MB of RAM and I would finaly get my 1.7GB I paid for!
     
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    Yeah.....Acer is always to blame.If anything goes wrong with an Acer lappie it's Acers fault. Never an ignorant, stupid, bloody user.

    In your case, it's probably a Vista thing or problem. Not an Acer issue.

    Visit the right forum and you might get the answer(s) you need.

    Search NBR. And you will find the answer. Without your :mad: :mad: :mad: attitude about Acer.

    It also helps if you discuss instead of ranting.....
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 18, 2008
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  4. SDX

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    Yes I do have that one
     
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    Simple. As the nVidia card reserves 768Mb for its turbo cache it is simply a case of reducing this. This is either done in the nVidia control panel or through the bios. Hope this helps
     
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    Hi, can't see any settings for this in Nvidia control panel, must be in bios if its adjustable.
     
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    if you run out of memory programs shouldn't be crashing. page file anyone?
     
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    Yes..there must be a way to adjust turbo cache usage. but how?

    I have pumped my Ram to 1.8 GB with the help of VMWare, but i made sure no other programs work in backgroound coz i know it will slow things to a halt. Anyways.. if u have lots of work to do simultaneously.. try doing the same in Ubuntu. ;)
     
    jithin6g, Mar 19, 2008
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    hey, this issue is kinda closed, I have reinstalled Vista (because of SP1 beta problems) and now memory usage does go more than 60%, so that must have been either Vista SP1 beta issue or nVidia driver issue, anyway it would be interesting if anyone else has the same problem.

    so far it looks fine again.
     
    SDX, Mar 19, 2008
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