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    PLEASE HELP - need to disable Hypermemory

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by LukasGottwald, Mar 7, 2007.

  1. LukasGottwald

    LukasGottwald Newbie

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    I have a laptop with ATI X1400 with 256 hypermemory. My laptop has just 1gb ram and the gfx card is eating like 200 mb of the ram - even when I'm not playing no games or do anything gfx intesive. I need to disable the hypermemory. How do I do that?

    Thnak you for your help
     
    LukasGottwald, Mar 7, 2007
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  2. an4rew

    an4rew Notebook Enthusiast

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    i don't think you can disable hypermemory if its anything like nvidia's Turbocahe.

    Also your card would need to have some onboard memory for your plan to work.
     
    an4rew, Mar 7, 2007
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  3. LukasGottwald

    LukasGottwald Newbie

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    yes it has 128 on board memory, i believe
     
    LukasGottwald, Mar 7, 2007
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  4. acaurora

    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    If it is not in your BIOS and you can't find it in the Catalyst control center, i dont think you can disable it? /gasp
     
    acaurora, Mar 7, 2007
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  5. LukasGottwald

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    I haven't seen the 'disable hypermemory' feature in the catalyst. I have the february 2007 version
     
    LukasGottwald, Mar 7, 2007
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  6. imhungry29

    imhungry29 Notebook Evangelist

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    u definitly cant disable hypermemory. thats all i have to say
     
    imhungry29, Mar 7, 2007
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  7. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    It is not possible to disable ATI's hypermemory.
     
    usapatriot, Mar 7, 2007
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  8. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    The bad part is : There is no known way to disable Hypermemory.
    The Good part is : The shared memory will not be accessed/allocated unless it is required (it is not reserved, but if the GPU dedicated memory gets filled, GPU starts allocating memory for this feature) and this will not happen unless you do consuming games.
     
    mujtaba, Mar 7, 2007
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  9. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    How can you be sure that the video card is eating up the RAM?
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Mar 7, 2007
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  10. kedu

    kedu Notebook Guru

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    Apparently Ati Tray Tools has a disable Hypermemory option. I just cant get ATT to install in Vista (even using disable driver signatures at boot)
     
    kedu, Mar 8, 2007
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  11. link1313

    link1313 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I doubt its eating up system RAM while your not playing games.
     
    link1313, Mar 8, 2007
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