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    Weird ATI X1600 thing

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by i_baked_cookies, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. i_baked_cookies

    i_baked_cookies Notebook Consultant

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    In my Catalyst Control Center, it shows:

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    The Mobility Radeon X1600 is 256mb + 256 hyper memory, why does it think I have this much? I'm not going to fry it am I?
     
    i_baked_cookies, Feb 22, 2008
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    The card has 256 dedicated RAM and shares 256 with the system memory.
     
    Lithus, Feb 22, 2008
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    But then why does it say 1023? I have 2 gigs of RAM in my computer so it's not telling me how much installed RAM I have.
     
    i_baked_cookies, Feb 22, 2008
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    WTF? Hypermemory is variable on the X1600? I was sure it was set at whatever the manufacturer specified, in our case 256MB
     
    Zoomastigophora, Feb 23, 2008
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    Oh well, if the computer assumed my video card had 1gig of available ram, it's not going to fry it, is it?
     
    i_baked_cookies, Feb 23, 2008
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    Doubt it will. Textures might glitch if games try to allocate video memory space than is possible, but I don't see that happening either. Did this happen after a driver update?
     
    Zoomastigophora, Feb 24, 2008
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    Uh, guys? This is a Vista thing. I had Vista on my laptop with a Radeon Xpress 200m for a while, and it always told me I had 537mb of graphics memory. Vista tends to do weird things with hypermemory enabled cards. Don't worry about it, you won't fry anything.
     
    Cartwheels4amile, Feb 24, 2008
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    I've been using the same desktop x1600 driver modded with the mobility modder for a while now, I just noticed this when I got my new HDD and reinstalled vista. I played BF2142 for a few hours and all is well, no increase in performance (except for load times which seem literally twice as fast thanks to the faster HDD).
     
    i_baked_cookies, Feb 24, 2008
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