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    Shared meory on video card..

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Visu2k7, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. Visu2k7

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    How to manually allocate shared memory on my 8600M GS card? the config that i am using is in my signature...
     
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    Don't, a GPU is smart enough to do it on its own. The only thing you would be doing is allocating RAM that it couldn't use and slowing down your computer due to lack of RAM for the CPU.
     
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    Thanks Lithus! I guess the card drivers must be doing sensible... but after the driver upgrade the shared mem. got up from 767MB (factory drivers) to 1791MB. So do you mean to say it is sensible to forego the whole 1.7GB RAM to the GPU? I have 4GB RAM so this is not that big a concern, but I thought the card may do well having 1 GB less shared memory than it is having now...
     
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    Again, the people who write the drivers are smart - much more so than me or you. Of course they're human and make mistakes, so if you think that you have them bested on this one, use different drivers.
     
    Lithus, Sep 12, 2007
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