Geforce go 7300 with 512mb ram?

Ok, I got a new Toshiba Laptop with geforce go 7300 with 512mb. At first I thought it would come with 256mb of ram, but when I got to the store, the guy told me it has 512ram. I know for a fact that it's not 512mb, but 256mb and it will only go up to 512mb when it needs the memory by using my ram. What I don't understand is, how does the card seem to run Battlefield 2 on HIGH settings (I tryed it), while many people on many different forums before I got the Laptop said that the 7300 would run it on low settings? And I don't even seem to lag while graphic settings on high.
I'm confused about all of this, what do you people make of this?
System:
2ghz duo core 2500
Geforce go 7300 with 512mb?
1gig ram (goes up to 4, but too much money that I wont spend)

 

lies--the 7300 is worse than the 7400, and it chokes running bf2 on high settings. just kidding--actually people have their own definition of "lag." if you ask hardcore gamers to define lag. they would consider a slight stutter a lag.

 

This is straight from the NVIDIA site

GeForce Go 7300 GPUs can support up to 256 MB of graphics memory.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_7300_faq.html

Don't believe salespeople!

 

I have the Geforce Go 7300. It has 128MB RAM dedicated and the other 128MB depends on the amount of RAM of your pc used. I have 2GIG RAM and Battlefield 2 runs smooth on high.

When I had 1GIG RAM it lagged slightly, but nothing to complain about.

.GaMeR. :nvidia:

 

The 512mb is no bs, I have the laptop and I have a screeshot. Battlefield 2 runs on highest settings, although many said geforce go 7300 can only run it on low, plus with high settings game play doesn't change at all. It doesn't lag me. Same thing goes for Day of Defeat Source. Take a look at the screenshot I got of the adapter settings.

Sorry if it's too big, but if any smaller you wouldn't be able to read.

 

We believe you saying that the 7300 has 512MB assigned to it. The thing is, the 64 bit memory bus is nowhere near fast enough to utilise 512MB of vram.

I have an X1400 w/128MB and another 128 Hypermemory, and with 1GB ram, I can run BF2 on medium settings no worries. BF2 relies more on the amount of memory rather than having an awesomely powerful GPU.

 

@Cheeseman, noone is denying that 512MB is allocated to the go7300 but i posted a screenshot from everest here and it shows its a 128MB dedicated card as m394byt3 said. I feel 512 if far too much for this card and hate the fact it takes 384MB of system RAM for itself. I really hope when i upgrade from 1GB to 2GB it doesnt push turbocache to 1GB. Thats just stupid.

This card should have 256MB and no more to use.

 

The last laptop I tested had a Go7 series card - it was 128MB dedicated + 128MB shared as posted m394byt3 However, it showed up as 512MB in most apps. It wouldn't matter if all that memory was dedicated - the Go7300 is a weak card, and wouldn't ever be able to use all 512MB because you could never put the settings that high.

By the way, no Go7300/7400 or X1300/X1400 have 256MB of dedicated memory.

 

Don't get me wrong here, I know the geforce 7300 is a low-end card, and I know it doesn't have 512mb. What I'm saying is that I could run Bf2 on high, while many people had misguided me on that. The fact is I have another laptop with Geforce go 6800 256mb and it runs the same as my go 7300 on high settings; that I find strange.

both laptops are very similar too:
Intel centrino 1.86ghz--------------------Duo core 2ghz
1gig ram, max 2--------------------------1gig ram, max 4
Geforce go 6800 256mb-------------------Geforce go 7300 512mb (which I'm guessing something like 256mb dedicated)
100gig HD--------------------------------100gig HD

Both laptops are very close in system specs.
The only reason I got the laptop is because I've heard the 7300 is the same or somewhat very similar to the NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards, and I was looking to use it for 3D applications like autocad for Engineering just as the Quadro cards are designed to do.
I also like to know, if I keep adding ram to the laptop, is the 512mb on the 7300 going to go up? cause I really don't want that to happen. Thanks for the comments.

 

OK, turn up the AA to 4x and the resolution to 1024*768.

^ My 6600GT on my desktop could only do a maximum of medium with 2x and 1024*768.

 

Everything in Battlefield 2 is on high, with 1024x768 and antialiasing on 2x. I think the go 7300 can go up to 4x, just haven't tryed it yet.

 

What's your average FPS?

Its great that it works out fine for you but some people can't deal with low framerates and all signs point to that being the case here.

 

Download a program called FRAPS, run it when playing the game and then hit the print screen button on your keyboard, then go into MS paint and secect Edit - Copy and save it as a .jpg. Use a free web host like www.photobucket.com to upload it and post it here.

Make sure your not looking at a wall/the sky/the floor, get a nice shot of some action and if its higher than 25fps then I might believe you .

 

Can't get Fraps to work on Day of Defeat Source, but it works fine with Bf2, got an average of 29fps, it only went down to 21 a few times when too much activity was going on.

Screen:

 

What are the settings: res, colour depth, quality, AA, AF?

 

To me 29 average is lag on FPS. It's alright on rpg game like wow /wc3 but not on fps. 45 average is alright. 10$ says he's lying... :]

 

Yeah I agree, I could prolly have BF2 with everything on high and get smooth frames if my resolution was at 800x600. What resolution are you running it at Cheeseman? The resolution is a real test to see how good a video card is, it takes alot of power to do a high resolution.

 

In battlefield 2 single I use 1024x768 resolution, but online I don't push it, by going on highest resolution. Online I use 800x600 but with graphics on high and antialiasing x2 (sometimes even off, if I don't want to risk lag) view distance 75%. Day of Defeat Source I go widescreen with everything on high and antialiasing turned off. In Battledfield 2 multi, I do get lag sometimes, just a second thing. In Day of Defeat Source I don't get lag at all.

 

what kind of 3d mark score didcha get

 

What? Anything 25fps and above for me is good

 

Id be happy if all my games ran at 25fps!