Nvidia GeForce 6200

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM, and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest driver!
 
Janus said:
Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM,
and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest
driver!
Click to expand...

Because you likely have a "6200 with TurboCache". Sounds cool, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, what it means is that some of your 128MB comes from system
memory and there really is only 32MB on the card.

Not positive this is your problem, but sounds likely. You can read more
about this scam (called hypermemory in the ATI world) at

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce6200_pci

Tom
 
Odd, I use the same type of card with the latest driver and it works fine
with Aero, for the most part. The only glitch I get is what appears to be a
common one with every Geforce card and Vista, and that is the screen capture
bug that occurs when the desktop compositing is enabled.
 
But I agree with Tom above. You probably don't have one that really has 128
MB, so mine probably isn't exactly like yours, since I avoided the
TurboCache versions like the plague.
 
Janus said:
Hi all,

I'm using the Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card with 128 MB RAM, but for
some reason Vista beta 2 (5384) only see/shows this as having 32 MB RAM, and
because of this I can't use Aero! How do I get Vista to find the "missing"
RAM and showing 128 MB?? Any help please? P.S. I do have the latest driver!
Click to expand...
You can't because it isn't missing. Your card only has 32MB and, like
AGP cards, uses system RAM for the rest.
 
Conor said:
You can't because it isn't missing. Your card only has 32MB and, like
AGP cards, uses system RAM for the rest.
Click to expand...

Not all AGP cards use system ram 'for the rest'. Neither my ATI 9800 Pro
nor my nVidia 6600 do.
 
Tom Scales scribbled:
Not all AGP cards use system ram 'for the rest'. Neither my ATI 9800 Pro
nor my nVidia 6600 do.
Click to expand...
Even not all GeForce 6200 AGP cards use system RAM - there are GF 6200
with 'real' 128 or 256 MB VRAM (e.g. by Asus).

Roy
 
Back
Top