Increasing shared video memory

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I have an Acer Aspire 4810T with 4 GB RAM, Core Solo at 1.4 GHz and integrated video with 64 ram. I have two questions:

1. I don't play games. I just use it for office work, internet and watching videos. So, would increasing the shared video ram help me at all?

2. The section of the bios to increase shared video ram is grayed out. How can I access it?

Thanks for any help.
 
U cant increase shared memory in the laptop. In fact u cant do anything in the bios of any laptop., except boot device order changing. Manufacturing companies lock the bios of laptops.
Beside, ur shared memory is fixed, u cant increase it. U have 64 MB of RAM set to be used by ur integrated graphics controller. The upper limit is fixed, but the entire 64 is not reserved. It is used as per requirement.
As per the use of ur system, u have enough video RAM, unless u intend to watch High Resolution HD movies.
 
sshaggy said:
U cant increase shared memory in the laptop. In fact u cant do anything in the bios of any laptop., except boot device order changing. Manufacturing companies lock the bios of laptops.
Beside, ur shared memory is fixed, u cant increase it. U have 64 MB of RAM set to be used by ur integrated graphics controller. The upper limit is fixed, but the entire 64 is not reserved. It is used as per requirement.
As per the use of ur system, u have enough video RAM, unless u intend to watch High Resolution HD movies.
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Thanks for the reply. Good to know.
Well, I had hoped to be able to watch HD movies, but I guess I won't be able to. I can watch 720p videos okay, but not 1080p videos or HD videos on youtube.
 
PC Hobbyist said:
Thanks for the reply. Good to know.
Well, I had hoped to be able to watch HD movies, but I guess I won't be able to. I can watch 720p videos okay, but not 1080p videos or HD videos on youtube.
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HD videos on youtube are nothing but videos with a little more quality. Normal videos are in flv format, HD's are in mp4 format thats it. You should have no problem watching it.
Why dont you try urself, and try different qualities of videos, to see which one work and which one dont.
 
Most computers now-of-days have dynamic memory where they allocate what's needed. I'm not quite sure why there's an entry blanked out in the bios, but the system should manage the memory as needed. Regardless, there's no reason to update the amount of shared memory. Even if you were to play games, the GPU could probably barely utilize more than the default/lowest setting. For what it seems you do on your laptop, leaving it at the lowest setting would probably be the best thing to do.

As for HD videos... you might be out of luck. They are flash based which is very CPU intensive. I suspect you could download whatever HD video you're attempting to play, find a player that's more optimized than Flash-based ones (Media Player Classic is what I use) and it'd play it back much smoother.
 
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The_Other_One said:
I'm not quite sure why there's an entry blanked out in the bios.........
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Most of the laptops have their bios locked by the manufacturer, as I stated earlier. It is because the laptop companies dont want any geek to mess with the bios and try to overclock it. The release their own Bios update as per their will.
 
sshaggy said:
Most of the laptops have their bios locked by the manufacturer, as I stated earlier. It is because the laptop companies dont want any geek to mess with the bios and try to overclock it. The release their own Bios update as per their will.
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Yeah, I know that but it seems odd that it'd even still be available... It seems most manufacturers simply remove such entries.
 
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