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    Increasing shared videocard memory(Aspire 4315-300512Mi)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by darkbeat1, Dec 20, 2008.

  1. darkbeat1

    darkbeat1 Newbie

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    hi i have an aspire 4315-300512Mi laptop..and just upgraded my ram to 2.5gig..and i want to increase my shared video card's memory..and as i have browsed through its spec it says that my video card is a
    Graphic subsystem name Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 358 MB (shared)..so this means that its max memory cap. is 358 right? and as i have looked into the bios.. my video card's memory is only set to 10MB.. anyone know how i could increase it?..i cant seem to change it through bios..

    can anyone help me please..im dying to increase my videocard memory :(
     
    darkbeat1, Dec 20, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    First of all, increasing the memory will not improve performance in anyway.

    And your card couldn't have worked with just 10MB till now, so definitely the shared memory allocation is controlled by the driver, so you can't do anything about it. Again, it won't affect performance, but just deprive your OS of physical memory, as the shared memory cannot be used by the OS.

    :)
     
    Andy, Dec 20, 2008
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    When the integrated graphics card is not doing 3d work, it only uses around 8-10MB so that is correct. More RAM is taken (by the driver) if the card needs it.

    But alas, there is no way to improve the performance of the card.
     
    Greg, Dec 20, 2008
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