is it HyperMemory!? o_O

Ok, later I posted about my recent purchase: a gateway mx6619m. When I purchased it she specs said "UNTIL 64MB of ATI X600SE VIDEO MEMORY" ok in the box and in the manual says so, so it is ok. When I turned on (I dont know if this is the correct way so say so...I meant POWER ON) the computer the first time I saw that it have 128mb in the adapter properties and here in notebookforums you told me that may be it has HyperMemory (in nowhere in the computer, specs, adapter, etc says that it has hypermemory). Ok today I said "lets download 3Dmark and compare it with the resluts in the forum". I downloaded 3dmark05 pushed the button DETAILS... In SYSTEM INFORMATION and DYSPLAY DEVICE section appeares the following:

Description ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc.
Total Local Video Memory 128 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 128 MB
Total AGP Memory 256 MB

Ok I ran the test. Got around 1800. But later I decided to download the ATI CATALYST 6.2 I followed the instructions and ran the test again. It went up to 1985 marks. Ok I said ok that is ok but then I checked in de adapter propierties (under windows) and it says that I have 256MB! I mean it is ok! its not something bad, but Im just confused with all this.

First, 64mb, then 128mb and when I installed the ati catalyst 256mb!

I checked the BIOS SETTINGS and there is no option to increase o decresease the video memory, in fact, bios says that I have 64mb of video ¬_¬, so How can I know how many MB in video do I have? Do I have Hypermemory or not? Is there a way to decrease the amount of MB allocated to Video?


Well thank you and sorry for the long post! But now im a little bit confused about this. Sorry for my english!

 

Doh, I found the answer myslef. It seems that my true "Hypermemory" was disabled at all, and when I installed the Catalyst 6.2 it was enabled automatically

But is there a way to disable this? As it is only eating the extra ram...

Thank you.

 

It'll only use that RAM if it needs it. If something wants that much video RAM, you probably will get more benefit allocating it to HyperMemory than keeping it as system RAM. Unless you run into some specific compatibility issues(which I haven't heard about any), I'd just leave it be.

 

Hi cid,

It is the total possible allocation space. Just leave it. If it needs it (in games) it will use it. Otherwise your Ram is free for other tasks. Enjoy in your new card.

Cheers,

 

I have a X700 and in the systeminfo it says 256 MB of RAM.
Is this 128 MB dedicated and 128 MB of Hypermemory?
I don't use catalist drivers.

 

klepzeiker - your card is 128MB dedicated, and 128 shared.

 

Thanks ChazMan

 

hi all,

i've an acer 4402, with an x700/64m vga.. and using a normal (not mobility) catalyst 6.3. How do i check or control hypermemory? In everest, there aren't any information about hypermemory, only:

Field Value
Video card properties
Device ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
Adapter ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
BIOS BK-ATI VER009.010.001.000
GPU ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 (0x5653)
DAC Internal DAC(400MHz)
Installed driver ati2dvag (6.14.10.6601)
Memory size 64 MB

??

 

I don't think it will show up - HyperMemory will take some of your system memory as needed.

 

thanks.. so it's not a problem or driver problem

 

Nope - as long as you have drivers over version 5.7 (the latest are 6.3, there's a link to download in the Gaming forum), HyperMemory is enabled by default.

Cheers

 

respekt!!