I have Windows XP Home. I have a budget computer system which came with no real video card, it's all shared intergrated video. Right now it's on 32mb of shared memory to video. How do I up the memory added to intergrated video? Perhaps from 32mb to 64mb? Any input if this is an easy task.
Shared video memory, shares your main memory. ie: if you have 256Mb installed extended memory (memory stick), and have it set to 32Mb, then you will have 224Mb for extended memory left for the system. Therefore, you can increase it to 64Mb, but it would reduce your extended memory for the system. Better to either: Purchase a seperate graphics card with it's own onboard memory or increase the size of your extended memory - extra memory stick required.
hi,jsrife to increase your video shared memory you need to go to the mobo bios screen its under chipset feature or pci and peripherals them with the pagedw or pageup keys you increase or decrease it. as babaa said that shared memory is from your physical inatlled memory if you have under 512 and you take 64 from video it can affect syst performance..
I went into Bios my Computer and according to this , 32mb is the max setting, below that it says 16mb 8mb. I have 384mb of memory on my machine, I don't know why it won't let me take it to 64mb
Hi Jason, Yeah, that's it for your mobo - 8, 16, or 32MB. You are already on the max. That is dedicated video memory, unavailable to the OS. Sometimes these integrated video controllers describe themselves as AGP and will then attempt to share more system RAM if they require more than 32MB... AGP swapping is much slower than 'real' video memory, but your mobo is kinda on swap-mode all the time, y'know? 32MB is plenty under the circumstances, and more memory would not really speed up your system video in any event ;^( Yes, but did it come with an (empty) AGP slot? If you have onboard video and no AGP slot, you are then thoroughly screwed for solutions! L8R
