Sharing system memory with graphic memory

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  1. gorrik

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    I just recently got an old laptop, Gateway 400sd4, 512mb ram, 2.4 ghz processor, and a 32meg video card built-in. I have heard of a thing called shared memory, and how you can use system memory for your video memory. I looked through my bios, and its too basic to make any changes there. I was wondering if there is another way to do this. And if the laptop only supports 512megs of ram if I get more ram can i use it for the video card?
     
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    You can do this, but there's no real point, it won't make the laptop able to play games any better.
     
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    i really want it to support higher resolutions the highest it has is only 1024 by 768, i'm not really interested in gaming i got my tower pc for that
     
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    The resolution is limited to 1024x768 because that's all the screen can display.
     
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