well i hav an on-board 32mb vga card of ATI radeon ! it shares its memory on a 512 mb memory card! i want to know if it is possible to increase the memory share of the vga card to a ...64mb! is it possible! if yes ....how! plzzz tell me!
2006-09-23 07:27:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
If 64MB shared is allowed in your BIOS it can. If not, then no. What shared video memory does is take part of your computer's system memory and use it solely for video. That means if you have 512MB total, it is subtracting 32MB from your system as a whole and dedicating it to video only. You can change this higher than default if it's in the BIOS. The tradeoff is you have less system RAM to work off of when you set more for video.
As the other posts mention, yes if you are hardcore into games, get a separate add-in card. Either a GeForce 7600 or Radeon X1800 is recommended for today's games. It also won't share memory.
Also AGP "aperture" size has nothing to do with shared memory allocation.
2006-09-23 07:29:24 · answer #1 · answered by anonfuture 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems you are bit confused. Probably you have ATI Radeon 200/480 chipset based motherboard. It shares the systems memory when the machine starts for display. You can increase the AGP aperture of the motherboard to 64 MB or more( if BIOS permits). That might not increase the performance of the in built VGA though. If you want more graphical power then you have to use a PCI Express card based on NVIDIA GeForce 4(6200 on wards)/ ATI Radeon make with 256 MB or more memory power. That will stop sharing the system's 512 MB ram.
2006-09-23 07:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Prosenjit B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IF the integrated video shared memory size can be increased it will be an option within the system bios. Otherwise you are stuck. However there are a number of really inexpensive video card that you can add to your system that would give you an immedieate performance boost. All you have to do is determine what slots are available on your motherboard. PCI, AGP, PCI express.??
2006-09-23 07:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by Fremen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put a new PCI or AGP video card in and don't use the one you have on the mother board.
2006-09-23 07:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need buy a graphics card. Onboard video cards cannot keep up with todays games.
2006-09-23 07:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by noellecanning 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if the card is built in, the memory for it is usually adjustable thru bios
2006-09-23 07:31:57 · answer #6 · answered by Joe b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possible yes.
Download RIVA TUNER
U can tweak it a little bit and make performance faster.
I suggest u buy a new VGA
64 mb is ancient
2006-09-23 07:29:59 · answer #7 · answered by NYC-BIGCAT 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no it cant be upgraded
2006-09-23 10:04:31 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋