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| Thread ID: 48959 | 2004-09-06 07:23:00 | Please, Please, Please HELP! | starplayer7 (6129) | Press F1 |
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| 269682 | 2004-09-06 07:23:00 | Hi everyone . . . sorry about my first post being a moan but I really do need Help . I am trying to play 3d games but my computer is running them very very slow . My CPU is : 768mb ddr RAM, Pci 64mb Video Card (not AGP), Win . xp sp2 When I go to my computers'Video Card (Intel somethign), I click on the REPORT icon and it give me the information : Max Video Memory: 64mb Current Video Memory Usage: 8mb Why is it not using all the memory when the PC is going so slow, shouldn't it be full? How can I make it use all the Video Memory? Also, can I make some of the RAM be used as Video Memory? I have read many other PressF1 topics on this sort of thing, and they say to change the Allocated Video Memory settings in the BIOS . But when I go into the BIOS there is NO 'Usage' setting and I am getting no-where . Thanks everyone . Absolutley ANY help would be great . Thanks in advance . |
starplayer7 (6129) | ||
| 269683 | 2004-09-06 07:37:00 | Hi, Starplayer, Welcome to PressF1. A few things come to mind: First off - Pick a better subject line. It doesnt help, and if anything makes me less-likely to read it. I havent seen your Username around, so you're lucky curiosity killed this cat. If its a PCI Graphics card - You cant share RAM with it. Usage will mean that you're only using 8MB sitting in Windows. This is probably normal, nothing to freak over. The rest will be used when gaming to hold textures etc ready for rendering.... If your PC is going slowly, thats either because you dont have enough RAM, you have a virus / trojan / spyware (Read the FAQ's), you've got too many apps running, or your system is simply in need of a tune-up/format. Basically you're looking in the wrong area - your Video RAM is different from your PC's RAM. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 269684 | 2004-09-06 08:03:00 | The name of the game you are trying to play would be helpful too. E.g Doom 3 == you're dreaming buddy. | Nyet (437) | ||
| 269685 | 2004-09-06 08:36:00 | What operating system are you running? | Growly (6) | ||
| 269686 | 2004-09-06 08:44:00 | Oh bugger !! I thought you wanted me to call the fire brigade, |
Earnie Moore (5918) | ||
| 269687 | 2004-09-06 09:16:00 | After getting out of my running gear, Remuera & Auckland city are the only closed ones I know of I could run too . I realized I might be able to help you out with your video card problem . Just how much video ram you use depends what you screen resolution is, and the color depth you would like, in fact this would be a good article for the pages of NZ PC World magazine . example I have 32 bit color, bit if I went down to 16 bit color I would not need so much video ram, Likewise if I went out and brought a bigger monitor (bigger than 15") I could increase my screen resolution from 600*800 to something bigger, and that would need more video ram . |
Earnie Moore (5918) | ||
| 269688 | 2004-09-06 11:29:00 | Is your video on board, (intergrated into the mother board) or is it a seperate card. If its intergrated its most proberly a intel 810 chipset and it will be using shared ram ie using some of the installed ram in your pc , which would explain (or partly) the go slow you are reporting along with as stated (by an earlier reply), other programs running at startup. If you have onbaord video (sometimes reported as pci video and another give away is intel graphics) there is no way I know of to increase the shared amount of RAM and even if this was possible it would slow your pc even more as there would be less for the OS and applications to use and there fore would need more virtual memory, which is a reserved space on your hard drive requiring disk writes or swapping data from virtual memory (high activity by the hard disk is a indicator here) to ram as it is needed by the OS or Applications. |
beama (111) | ||
| 269689 | 2004-09-06 12:16:00 | Or maybe the slowdown is due to the recent installation of SP2, assuming this slowdown is a recent thing of course. Have a look at FAQ 101 (give it time to load) and extract the relevant info from your computer and post it in here, eg, motherboard, graphics system (video), chipset, CPU, etc. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 269690 | 2004-09-06 21:35:00 | Oh, sorry guys . The main game I am trying to play is Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour . (3d graphics) I DO have an onboard video card, which is Intel . . . : Here are the cpu specs: Card name: Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Chip type: Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller DAC type: Internal Display Memory: 64 . 0 MB Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor: hp pavilion mx70 Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024 Driver Name: ialmrnt5 . dll Driver Version: 6 . 14 . 0010 . 3865 (English) DDI Version: 9 (or higher) And this has been a problem even before SP2 . . . so no clues there . Thanks alot everyone . |
starplayer7 (6129) | ||
| 269691 | 2004-09-06 21:55:00 | oh ok i can solve this one in an instant, Generals is your problem, there was something wrong with that game, it totally taxed graphics cards of much higher spec than yours. Are you okay for playing other games?? | Budda (2736) | ||
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