Aspire 5315 - X3100 Memory Allocation

Hi,

I recently got an Aspire 5315 laptop and have been slowly getting it set up to run XP instead of Vista. However, the one problem I am having at the moment is with the Intel X3100 Graphics Accelerator. I have looked all over the internet and can't seem to find any info on how I can define the memory that is allocated to the card, it's all well and good the card using dynamic memory allocation but it's not allocating enough memory. I want to have a fixed 128MB dedicated to the graphics but I can't see any way of doing this either via the Intel software or the BIOS.
I thought I ought to be able to assign a minimum memory amount via the BIOS but graphics memory is locked on my BIOS setting. Would flashing to a later BIOS fix this?

Thanks,

 

Why do you need the fixed minimum amount?

 

Because I'm trying to run WoW on my laptop and the game will just run on max settings so I turned my graphics settings down to compensate for the low performance and the graphics chip just dynamicallty lowered the memory so I had the same performance as before.

 

This isn't happening because of lower memory, it happens because x3100 just suck big time with games. In many games x3100 performance is the same with high and low settings.
Anyway it's possible to force x3100 to use more memory though I'm 99% sure you won't notice any performance boost. Go to x3100 Control Panel->3D settings, find "Memory footprint" - by default it's set at "Normal" - then set it to "Highest".

 

Ta, but unfortunately I seem to get the same performance whether it's set to normal, low or high .

 

Exactly...