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    vcard 64mb became 256mb????

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sk8muna, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. sk8muna

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    i have a dv2690ee... i bought this in qatar last month... i downgraded it to windows xp (following the instruction here) and i just noticed a while ago that may videocard now has 256mb dedicated memory... when my laptop still in vista it only has 64mb... is this for real or it just a joke??? i noticed also that i can play now call of duty 4 in medium setting....
     
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    Where is it showing 256MB? I'm assuming you have the 8400M GS....

    I noticed switching driver versions changed what Windows would see my video ram as (but this was in Vista).......
     
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    The 64MB RAM display was either a glitch.... or the extra RAM is virtual memory...
     
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    it shows in system info, nvidia control panel, dxdiag and also in systemrequirementlab.com... yes, i have the 8400m gs... and im using v163.16 driver...
     
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    but really, it improves everything... before, titan quest is not working, call of duty 4 in low setting is still choppy, company of heroes to...
     
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    As Prasa said, it is detecting virtual memory. As for gaming performance, I find XP to be a bit smoother...........
     
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    It is normal to expect better performance on XP than Vista on low-end cards (on older games, especially!) . :)
     
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    ah ok... ty for the info...
     
    sk8muna, Mar 17, 2008
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