Video RAM

rhettofbodom · 02-01-2006, 02:58 AM

Does upgrading the RAM do anything for the Video RAM?

suprasteve · 02-01-2006, 03:00 AM

not automatically, you might be able to add more of the memory to the dedicated video portion, but I don't know how to go about doing that if it can be done

bigsaucybob · 02-01-2006, 03:04 AM

well ur video ram does more for ur normal ram. it frees up space used for graphics processing by the card and frees up used shared graphics memory.

rhettofbodom · 02-01-2006, 03:07 AM

I wanna know because I took this test to see what I was failing at to run World Of Warcraft, the only thing I didn't have enough of was Video RAM. I own a laptop in which I don't believe has any possibly graphics card upgrades...

Xycron · 02-01-2006, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by rhettofbodom

I wanna know because I took this test to see what I was failing at to run World Of Warcraft, the only thing I didn't have enough of was Video RAM. I own a laptop in which I don't believe has any possibly graphics card upgrades...

what are you exacpt labtop specs?

rhettofbodom · 02-01-2006, 03:18 AM

Dell Inspiron 2650
Intel Pentium 4
256 MB RAM
Direct X 9
nVidia GeForce 2 Go Graphics
Windows XP (SP2)

Anything else?

bigsaucybob · 02-01-2006, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhettofbodom

Dell Inspiron 2650
Intel Pentium 4
256 MB RAM
Direct X 9
nVidia GeForce 2 Go Graphics
Windows XP (SP2)

Anything else?

well that might be the problem. some games require ur gpu to have a certain level of video memory, as u already know. i cant expect it to be very high on WOW so i wuld guess ur card has maybe 64mb or 128mb, which shuld be sufficent.

but to answer your question more ram will not physically give u more video ram.

rhettofbodom · 02-01-2006, 01:59 PM

Well actually my Video RAM is (Sadly) 16 mb and I need at least 32 to play it...

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02-01-2006, 03:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	not automatically, you might be able to add more of the memory to the dedicated video portion, but I don't know how to go about doing that if it can be done

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rhettofbodom New Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4	I wanna know because I took this test to see what I was failing at to run World Of Warcraft, the only thing I didn't have enough of was Video RAM. I own a laptop in which I don't believe has any possibly graphics card upgrades...

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rhettofbodom New Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4	Dell Inspiron 2650 Intel Pentium 4 256 MB RAM Direct X 9 nVidia GeForce 2 Go Graphics Windows XP (SP2) Anything else?

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rhettofbodom New Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4	Well actually my Video RAM is (Sadly) 16 mb and I need at least 32 to play it...