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    Disabling hypermemory

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MonkeyHugger, Jul 22, 2006.

  1. MonkeyHugger

    MonkeyHugger Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello there,

    Really want to disable this so I can experiment in games, to see better peformance. I've got an asus a6va with an x700, 128mb dedicated and 128mb shared through hypememory.

    Is there any way to disable it? Using latest omega drivers. Did a search and a lot of threads but no real answers. Cheers.
     
    MonkeyHugger, Jul 22, 2006
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Download ATI Tray Tools and install it if you haven't already - then go Tools & Options, General Options, Advanced, and uncheck "Enable ATT Shared Memory".
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 22, 2006
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    Is there any way to do this for Nvidia cards? Specifically, I hate my go7300 stealing 384MB RAM for itself. I doubt it can fully use 256MB total so would like to reduce its RAM allocation to that.

    Any way to do this?

    PS: Sorry for jackin your thread MonkeyHugger but i think your questions been answered :)
     
    _radditz_, Jul 22, 2006
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  4. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Ill try this and see if it will affect my 3dmark.
     
    Thaenatos, Jul 22, 2006
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    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    well results are in. A ~100 3dmark05 difference in favor to keeping the hypermemory.
     
    Thaenatos, Jul 22, 2006
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  6. Charles P. Jefferies

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    That is a fairly large difference. Thanks for posting your results.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 22, 2006
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  7. TwilightVampire

    TwilightVampire Notebook Deity

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    Extra memory always helps the 3DMark scores. RAM has very little to do with them. Its the gaming performance that I worry about. You'll probably find that you're better off without it in most newish games.
     
    TwilightVampire, Jul 22, 2006
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  8. HavoK

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    Is there anyway to disable turbo cache in nvidia cards? My 6400 card is crashing in every game after about 30 minutes with an nvida display error and physical dump message, I looked it up and most people seem to think its a conflict between dedicated ram and moving into the computers ram resources. Its a really common problem but no-one seems to be able to fix it properly.... :(
     
    HavoK, Jul 23, 2006
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  9. Charles P. Jefferies

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    I did a bit of searching, and didn't come up with any answers - I don't think there is any way to disable TurboCache. Sounds like you might want to update your drivers.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 23, 2006
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  10. HavoK

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    Tried that, no luck, regardless of drivers still experiencing random crashes and blue screens, but googling shows that dozens of people have the same problem so it must be a problem with that card....thanks anyway chaz :)
     
    HavoK, Jul 23, 2006
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  11. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Yeah I havent checked out game play yet , maybe Ill have time in the near future.
     
    Thaenatos, Jul 23, 2006
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