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    Help with 1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon? HD 6870M

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Tankor, Sep 1, 2011.

  1. Tankor

    Tankor Notebook Guru

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    I just got a laptop with this graphics card. Also registered my battle.net account for the diablo 3 beta and it says this card only has Approximate memory: 728mb when it should be 1024mb. Then i used the run option and typed dxdiag and it also reported the same thing to me. I bought this laptop and it said the card was supposed to be 1gb but everything is reporting its not. Did i get screwed? or is it some sort of mistake?
     
    Tankor, Sep 1, 2011
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  2. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Probably an error with Blizzards spec checker.
    No worries.
     
    DEagleson, Sep 1, 2011
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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  4. Zymphad

    Zymphad Zymphad

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    Err no...

    That's a common bug with DXDiag. It's been known since Windows 7 has been out. Microsoft is too lazy to fix it. And it seems Blizzard is dumb enough to read your GPU info from the DXDiag because there isn't a shred of doubt in my mind that Blizzard employees know about this bug.

    Your GPU still uses the full 1024mb, don't worry about it. There is nothing wrong. It's just Microsoft being retarded.
     
    Zymphad, Sep 1, 2011
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