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    How to change my graphics RAM allocation?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ryanverbena, Mar 15, 2010.

  1. ryanverbena

    ryanverbena Newbie

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    I own a Vaio VGN-FE770g, and I have recently upgraded my RAM to 2gb plus I bought a SanDisk 4GB Extreme IV Memory Stick Pro Duo to utilize the windows 7 readyboost utility.

    I thought this would help with my gaming but it isn't the case. I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I play Age of Empires III a lot and I still can't run it at any decent resolution without the screen freezing when a battle is taking place (any other time it is fine).

    I looked into the Vaio's graphics capabilities and it said about the dynamic allocated RAM, which i further read can be modified (?). Could anyone offer a simple step by step how to do this? (or some insight as to whether it could/should be done at all).

    Would be much appreciated! Cheers
     
    ryanverbena, Mar 15, 2010
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    It's not going to help you at all. The computer is smarter than you are when partitioning memory.
     
    Lithus, Mar 15, 2010
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    ryanverbena Newbie

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    oh ok, damn. thanks for the reply mate.

    just one more thing, my memory stick came in the mail today, so i plugged it in but my laptop won't read it. i recently upgraded to windows 7 (64) and had to update drivers with a lot of things. is that the case with this as well?

    if so, could anyone point me in the right direction as to fixing the problem?

    cheers in advance!
     
    ryanverbena, Mar 17, 2010
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    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Does your BIOS see it? And what type of RAM did you buy and what type did your machine come with?
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 18, 2010
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    ryanverbena Newbie

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    i'm not sure how to run the bios sorry. i'll look into doing it and get back to you.

    as for RAM, my comp came with 2x512mb ram which I upgraded to 2x1gb and that worked fine. I was just looking for a bit more of a boost by using the readyboost on a 4gb Pro Duo Stick which i'm told is built in a way that would accomodate the readyboost option better than say a USB flash stick would (plus it doesn't protrude from the comp).

    but yeh, the computer doesn't seem acknowledge the memory card is in. or if it does, then i don't know where to locate and enable it for readyboost.

    from my very limited knowledge about this kind of stuff, i'm thinking it's a driver issue (the memory card didn't come with an installation cd). and i don't know where to find the specific driver for my laptop which will work with 64bit windows 7.

    if anyone knows a good place to download a 64bit driver that will work for my computer (vaio vgn-fe770g) then i'd be extremely grateful.

    but like i said, i'm no expert and this might not be the problem at all..
     
    ryanverbena, Mar 18, 2010
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