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    Too much video Ram

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Pevlez, Mar 6, 2010.

  1. Pevlez

    Pevlez Notebook Enthusiast

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    Something weird is going on with my sager np2962, I bought over a year ago, with 1gb of video RAM, (and let me take the opportunity to tell you it's been awesome, I mean its been more than a year now and any game I've putted through this mighty monster machine I've been able to play it at the highest of res, trully the best purchase I've ever made), but when I was going through "can you run it" to see if my lap top could play Assassin's Creed 2, which apparently can be played at the highest, I noticed that the page said that I have 2.7gb of video RAM, (which is werid because I only bought 1 card with 1gig) I decided to check my dxdiag and it also say's that I have 2.7 gigs and I've also oppened my laptop to do some cleaning and I've noticed that there's only one card, weird huh? :confused:, does anybody knows anything about this?
     
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    It's just including some of your actual RAM in the calculation.
     
    5482741, Mar 6, 2010
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    Blacky, Mar 6, 2010
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    laptop RAM is a little different it is also available as video ram because of the way it is setup on the board,
     
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    well I've heard from shared memory but I thought it was supposed to use some of the RAM I have, but In my system set up it say's I have all 4 gigs of RAM avaliable
     
    Pevlez, Mar 7, 2010
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    well the 2.7 are just the max ram that is available, not the total ram occupied at that moment. so theres nothing wrong with having a max of 2.7 shared and a max of 4 gigs for normal tasks.
     
    Anthuzad, Mar 7, 2010
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