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    Sony VAIO X3100 problem

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mikald, Apr 4, 2008.

  1. mikald

    mikald Newbie

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    Hello!

    I have a problem that's becoming quite annoying.

    I recently purchased a Sony Vaio CR21S with an integrated X3100 video card.

    I installed Windows XP Professional SP2 and the drivers from the official page. Also, I installed all the necesary video codecs for playback.

    However, when I tryied to play an XViD file that looks perfectly on my desktop the image appeared blocky. I tryied more and the same issue apears on all.

    I got the latest driver from the Intel website (14.33.1 - GM965) but the problems persists.

    I checked its info page and it shows that it utilizes only 10Mb of RAM (the notebook has 2Gb). I went into BIOS to look for an option that would allow me to increase this, but none exist.

    Any sugestions?

    Thank you!
     
    mikald, Apr 4, 2008
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    mikald Newbie

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    I basicly just tryied anything I could think of. Same thing :(
     
    mikald, Apr 4, 2008
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    IntelUser Notebook Deity

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    That's the problem on either the hardware(bugs) or software(drivers). It's probably bad drivers, and you'll just hope Intel will fix it on the future.

    The amount of video memory doesn't matter. 10MB of video memory is plenty to run basically all non-3D apps. It'll only use your regular non-video RAM anyway(VRAM is shared with system RAM for integrated graphics, but I hope you get my point).
     
    IntelUser, Apr 4, 2008
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