i got 1gb of ram , and a shit vid card . i wanna dedicate like 256MB of ram to the vid card. Possible?
It is called AGP Aperture Size: "This option specifies the amount of system memory that can be used by the AGP device. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space." Setting this to 25% of your RAM is a good plan - so if your aperture is set (in BIOS) to 128MB, you could change this to 256MB. Your vid card will swap into your system RAM only when its onboard memory is used up, so 128MB is lots for most people (and too much for those with minimal system RAM who don't play 3D games). Setting your aperture to 256MB, though good in your situation, will not exactly speed up a dawg vidcard like magic... but it won't hurt :^) It could help you, if you are workin' a tired old vid card really hard. Regards
yeh , thanks . i added 256mb or my ram to the card and i dunno if it bette ror not , but meh..... Quick qestion , does this increase heat?
Nope. Hey I saw (from that other thread) you guys are running nVidia FX5200? I have one, in Asus VS, with 128MB. Somebody has 256MB - was that you Sasha? Bet it doesn't help... My VS (Video Suite) has VIVO and I can capture with it, recording from Laserdisk and VCR, or just watching TV. I designed this rig (ages ago) with optical SPDIF and the VS, to capture LVDs. Doom3 and FarCry, however, do not much care ;^( I have been watching & watching prices and Radeon 9600XT with 256MB is now 'calling out to me' priced at $174.95 Canadian (US $140. = 80 Pounds Sterling). They damn thing does not VIVO though, but WTF I haven't captured anything lately :^) And I just picked up the Doom3 Expansion Pack (OGS is a stone-cold killer - a UT champion from the 90's) Something must be done, and done soon... And hey, I can watch TV on my 'service-bay' rig (17" KDS flat-panel) if I hookup my beloved Pentium Pro, which has AVer Media TV capture card. But I must unhook it whenever I am servicing, which is pretty well always. Now I can run the TV (on 19" Viewsonic) while servicing, but I don't watch much TV except for F1 :^) I have my Aperture set 256MB on my FX5200, and it actually plays Doom3 pretty well on the default Doom3-detected settings... Maybe I should just bide my time and pickup a next-gen vidcard when the 6800GT mellows a bit in price? Dunno. But the expansion pack is right here, right now, LoL :^) L8R
