Onboard video shared memory.

[Michael]

I went into the nVidia Control Panel and saw this;

What's it all mean? I gather that my BIOS is set to 'automatically reserve RAM for the onboard video' but how much is it reserving?! I get about 1200MB (idle) to use for my processes out of 2GB of RAM.

 

[hermeslyre]

The amount being "reserved" will be somewhere in your BIOS.

It can be a bad thing, but generally isn't because as long as your video card isn't making use of the RAM (IE playing a game) the system still can make of use it.

I think it shows that you have 600Mb of RAM that's able to be used by your graphics card. I'd suggest lowering that because it's much more than you'd ever need running integrated graphics

 

[RoBBy]

Damn, what is this card!!!??

 

[diduknowthat]

Damn, what is this card!!!??

Onboard graphics , sucks up your system memory. I also suggest you lower the value as there's no way that much memory can help an onboard graphics chip, it just isn't powerful enough to utilize all of it.

 

[Michael]

Onboard graphics , sucks up your system memory. I also suggest you lower the value as there's no way that much memory can help an onboard graphics chip, it just isn't powerful enough to utilize all of it.

In the BIOS it's set to auto normally.. changing it to anything else does no good.. it still shows the same 600+MB being reserved, as well as all of the other numbers remaining the same.. thus the reason I started this thread, to verify that I'm not reading this incorrectly haha

 

[The_Other_One]

There's no manual setting for Turbocache and whatever ATI's shared memory is as far as I know... It just uses the dedicated memory than takes system RAM as it's needed.

 

[hermeslyre]

There's no manual setting for Turbocache and whatever ATI's shared memory is as far as I know... It just uses the dedicated memory than takes system RAM as it's needed.

I helped out some dude awhile back that said otherwise.. He had found the setting in the BIOS and wanted to know what it was and what it should be changed to.

Maybe they don't don't all have the setting?