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    How to set the amount of memory that my vga uses

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Goatskull, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. Goatskull

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    Okay so i wanted to ask if there is a way to manually adjust the memory that my video card uses from my RAM and make it a constant. For instance my shared memory is 2048 MB and the video card's minimum memory is 64 MB and the maximum of the shared memory is 1024 MB so how can i set the card to constantly work at about 512 MB no matter what game or program i'm running on my laptop. My vga is Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-4500MHD-GMA-X4500MHD.9883.0.
     
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    It should automatically only take what it needs when you're playing a game. You may be able to set it in the BIOS though, when you start up, look near the bottom of the screen, it should say something like 'Press F1/F12/Delete/etc. to enter BIOS'. Then just scroll through the options and change the video memory to what you want.
     
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    Yeah i was pretty much aware of that, but i just couldn't find such an option in the BIOS menu on my laptop. I thought i knew where to look since i found it on the BIOS on my PC but not so lucky for the laptop.
     
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    Don't worry about how much it says it uses, it should only take what it needs. And since it's an X4500 I doubt it would even need 128MB of RAM (I'm sure it wouldn't be able to play games at decent enough settings to max out that 128MB).
     
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    ye but still when i'm trying to play something like Dead Space the fps is really really low.
     
    Goatskull, Jan 29, 2009
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