256mb x200m auto v-ram configs

Right now I have 1Gb system ram and my x200m takes 128mb. At 512Mb ram it took 64Mb.

Does anyone know from experience or from anything they've seen with auto-config 256mb x200ms at what level of system ram (1.5Gb? 2Gb?) the x200m takes 256mb vram? There is no way to manually change it on here.

Thanks

 

My guess would be 2GB - stands to reason from a mathematic standpoint, as 256MB:2GB is the same ratio as 64MB:512MB and 128MB:1GB (1:8).

It's odd that the BIOS has no options for this, however.

 

I know, but half an hour on the phone to Toshiba support going through drivers and the BIOS came up with nothing. Also the v-ram amount changed after I upgraded the ram.

Honestly I'm not sure how much I'd really want to spent on an upgrade for this laptop, as I'm uncertain as to whether the x200m can really use that much more than 128mb of ram.

 

Well, getting more VRAM really won't improve performance much on an x200M, no. Adding RAM up to 2GB will improve general system performance greatly, of course, and gaming performance in that you'll have more room to cache game files and generally smooth out hitching. But your GPU's going to bottleneck you no matter what you do - it does only have 2 pixel pipelines and no dedicated video memory, after all. And the Celeron M isn't helping matters much, either. They're fine for everyday work, but not so great for gaming.

 

Yes, quite. Unfortunately to get a more powerful gpu (realistically a geforce go 7300 or similar) involves buying a minimum £550 laptop and I can't really afford that.

My preferred upgrade would be another 512mb of ram (around £30-35 after resale of the old stick), a Pentium-M cpu upgrade (£25-50 depending on prices at the time, 1.7GHz 400MHz FSB) and either a larger or larger and faster hard drive (£60-100). So most likely a total of £135 spent. Cheaper than a new machine! All i do is play WoW so my x200m is fine for the most part. Can get a tad caught up in the big cities but a lot of the time it's the hard drive that's the issue.

Anyway...

Anyone have any more ideas on the x200m thing?

 

hmm that is pretty weird....
i can change settings between sideport and dedicate.. what ever that is
which means 125mb and 256mb, in bios
look at my mem ts only a 512mb which is way smaller than you guys....

 

Your laptop is different than Jess' because your X200M has dedicated memory -128MB worth. It can also share additional memory, although there is really nothing to gain by letting it do so.

 

someone 777, does your x200m perform better with the extra 128mb of system memory being taken?

 

i think it is
but no offense but you said that is always borrowing from system mem
well i might be wrong
i am kind of confuse ^^????

 

umm.. didn't try that
i don't know what to do but if you tell me
i would try it^^