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    How to increase allocated memory on TIMELINE?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by clipzed, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. clipzed

    clipzed Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone. I'm trying to play TrackMania on lowest settings on my acer timeline and in configuration it says i am only using 69mg of my video card. The timeline is supposed to be able to use much more than this. I can't seem to allocate more in the BIOS and i can't find any help searching.

    Please help! Thank you :)
     
    clipzed, Sep 13, 2009
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    what video card do you have?
     
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    weinter /dev/null

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    The RAM is auto allocated based on the total amount of RAM in your system.
    Solution?
    Buy more RAM
     
    weinter, Sep 13, 2009
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  4. Serg

    Serg Nowhere - Everywhere

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    In fact it depends on the GPU. It is limited to a certain amount.
     
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  5. clipzed

    clipzed Notebook Enthusiast

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    x4500, 4gig DDR3 ram
     
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    Another thing you can try is go Intel Graphics Driver Control Panel
    Under Driver Memory setting put high.
    Not sure if this helps.
     
    weinter, Sep 13, 2009
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    der_mali Weihnachtsmann

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    The settings in control panel are for OpenGL only.
    @OP
    I suppose the game runs, right?
    4500MHD just takes the amount needed to play the game and leaves the rest to the system. No need to aquire more RAM than needed for that game.
     
    der_mali, Sep 14, 2009
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  8. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    TrackMania needs a good CPU, what CPU do you have?


    I can tell you that TrackMania works on medium setting on my X3100 with a 2ghz T7300 CPU.

    your graphics card is better than myne. You should have no problems.
     
    moral hazard, Sep 14, 2009
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