Graphics Memory Size?

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Is there an easy way for me to find what XP says is the memory on my
AGP video card?

Thanks

Jethro
 
Is there an easy way for me to find what XP says is the memory on my
AGP video card?

Thanks

Jethro
Click to expand...

In addition to dxdiag:

right click on a free area of the desktop
select properties->settings->advanced->adapter

Read the text that starts with "memory size"
 
In addition to dxdiag:

right click on a free area of the desktop
select properties->settings->advanced->adapter

Read the text that starts with "memory size"
Click to expand...

Found it!

Thanks both of you

Jethro
 
That info under the adapter submenu..... is that actually what
::sneeze::, sorry.... is that actually what XP is using and able to
use for graphics? See, I got a 512MB graphics card, but in the BIOS I
can't set the graphics memory over 256MB. Is the 256MB a limit of the
motherboard, meaning that you could stick a graphics card in there
with hypothetically 16 Gigs of memory on it and the motherboard would
only be able to use 256MB of it? :paranoid:



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ldiaco said:
That info under the adapter submenu..... is that actually what
::sneeze::, sorry.... is that actually what XP is using and able to
use for graphics? See, I got a 512MB graphics card, but in the BIOS I
can't set the graphics memory over 256MB. Is the 256MB a limit of the
motherboard, meaning that you could stick a graphics card in there
with hypothetically 16 Gigs of memory on it and the motherboard would
only be able to use 256MB of it? :paranoid:
Click to expand...

If you have a 512MB graphics card, then you have a graphics card with 512MB
of memory and there will be nothing to set in the BIOS. If you are setting
the graphics memory size in the BIOS, then you don't have a separate
graphics card, but you are using on-board graphics. Perhaps you have both
and could disable the on-board graphics and claw back the system memory you
have assigned to it! Basically, you are confusing different types of
graphics card:

If you install a 512MB graphics card into the AGP or PCIe slot, then you
have a graphics card with 512MB. You can't 'set the graphics memory' in the
BIOS for a PCI-E or AGP graphics card.

If you use the graphics 'built-in' to the motherboard*, then you specify the
amount of main memory which will be set aside for on-board graphics. If you
don't have a huge amount of RAM in your system, then it makes sense for the
BIOS to restrict the amount of memory available to the user for assigning to
the graphics chip.

A third type of graphics card is a hypermemory or turbocache (some name like
that) graphics card. These also plug into the AGP or PCIe slot. They have
some memory on board and use system RAM for the rest. I don't know how you
set the maximum system memory limit for these cards, but it won't be a BIOS
setting on the PC.

*Not all motherboard have on-board graphics.
 
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