laptop graphics chip

[Jon]

hello,

my laptop has the ATI radeon xpress 1100 (i think its 1100) and at the moment it is showing 448mb RAM left. if in the future i wanted to play a game which needs 128mb RAM graphics how can i change the graphics chip to take 128 instead of 64?

thanks

jon

 

[jjsevdt]

System memory and graphics memory are two different things. the 448 is your system ram and there's no way to upgrade your graphics ram.

 

[The_Other_One]

System memory and graphics memory are two different things. the 448 is your system ram and there's no way to upgrade your graphics ram.

This is not true...well not totally. Nearly all onboard video cards today share the system's RAM. 448 + 64 = 512. 448M system, 64M shared video RAM.

If a game requires 128M of video RAM, I doubt that GPU could even handle it. Yes, there's probably some way to bump it up to 128M(usually in the BIOS) but such onboard GPU's are very weak/

 

[bebopin64]

my xpress 200m integrated gpu is fairly powerful. it can hold its own on doom 3 with medium settings. but to the point. i set the gpu to use its dedicated 128 then share 128 from the ram in the bios.

 

[Jon]

so how would i get it to its full capacity in the bios? - i dont even know what the bios is btw

 

[bebopin64]

when your computer is starting you need to press a key to get into the bios. its usually like F8 or DEL. i dont really know what your bios looks like so you just need to look around.

 

[The_Other_One]

when your computer is starting you need to press a key to get into the bios. its usually like F8 or DEL. i dont really know what your bios looks like so you just need to look around.

I've never seen a computer that uses F8 Normally it says what to press. Other keys/combinations I've seen are F1, F2, DEL, ESC, CTRL-F1, CTRL-F2, CTRL-S...