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    Thinkpad T60 graphics issue

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Ballin4life, Apr 2, 2008.

  1. Ballin4life

    Ballin4life Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello! Former member long ago in ancient times, back now with a question...

    I have a Lenovo T60 with an ATI MRX1400 card, 128 dedicated with additional through hypermemory. But I just checked the hardware settings recently and it said I had something on the order of 895 mb shared with the card! I was like, wow, no wonder I didn't feel like my computer was performing like a 2gb ram computer should. I never changed the settings before; it seems to have been set to that, stock.

    Anyways, the question is, I really don't want to give 895 mb to the card, considering I'm not much of a gamer at all and would like my computer to be as fast as it should be (right now only 1.105 gb is RAM-only). How do I change HyperMemory settings? BIOS doesn't offer that option under any settings; the ATI drivers are only for desktops, so CCC doesn't have anything. Idk what to do.

    Thanks.
     
    Ballin4life, Apr 2, 2008
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  2. schoko

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    Afaik you cannot change the value of hypermemory, but you can switch it off, to get back your ram.

    try this :

    Download ATI Tray Tools and install it then go Tools & Options, General Options, Advanced, and uncheck "Enable ATT Shared Memory".
    some direct registry key change should work also, but no guarantee for this one :

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\CDS\0000\0\Memory

    There will be an hypermemory string modify it to No (0x00000000) instead of Yes (0x00000001)
     
    schoko, Apr 2, 2008
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