How do I dedicate memory to video card?

Question

I've got this video card on my laptop:
Geforce GO 6150

This laptop:
Turion 64 X2 1.6ghz - with 1gig ram


How do I dedicate the full 256MB required to this video card? I heard it can be done, but how?

CS 1.6 runs like crap! I want it to run at least good!

Answer 1

Hi, I read your previous question and noticed the very bad answer that the one guy gave you, which I think led you to asking this one. The GeForce Go 6150 is a very poor video card, simply upgrading RAM or dedicating more RAM to the video card is not going to help. Unfortunately some people on here give very poor answers in areas that they do not understand. You most likely already have the full 256MB dedicated to the card, and even if you don't, it won't matter, amount of RAM on a video card is not the most important factor.

Answer 2

What are Integrated Graphics Processors (IGPs)? They are a simple graphics controller located on the motherboard. IGPs (with few exceptions) do not have their own memory and cannot play complex 3D games. Integrated graphics cards are not for gaming – office work, DVD watching, and web surfing is near the limit of their capabilities. They can be found in almost any size notebook, from those with a 10.6” screen to 17”. Advantages of an IGP include low power consumption and virtually no heat.

Although IGP performance is for the most part irrelevant, they are rated below from lowest-performing to highest:

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Intel GMA900
Intel GMA950
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
Nvidia GeForce Go6150
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150

Intel always has the worst IGPs performance-wise. The GeForce Go6150 and Radeon X200M are very similar in performance, while the X1150 improves on them by about 30% in terms of overall performance.
IGPs have no memory of their own – they borrow it from the main system memory. Some IGPs, such as the Radeon X200M/X1150 can have some dedicated memory (64-128MB max.), but that is not common.

Answer 3

I think you should go to the BIOS, I'm not sure how for your laptop. On my laptop I had to press F2 to go into BIOS early time when you start your computer (the first screen that shows up during boot). Usually there is an indication on what button to press to enter BIOS SETUP on that same screen.

When you get into the BIOS setup, which can appear like anything, depending on the laptop brand and the type of BIOS chip they use. You should find something like "FRAME BUFFER SIZE" or "ONBOARD SHARED MEMORY SIZE" or something like that. It should have choices or something like 32, 64, 128, and 256, in MB (Megabytes). When you're done, exit and save the BIOS. U should find how to do that on the screen.

I'm not sure but your computer probably already allocate shared memory size "dynamically".

Standard is usually set at 128MB. Adding it to 256MB may improve things a bit with games that uses large memory buffer, but it will not do wonders.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

I tend to concur, the amount of ram you devote to the gpu isn't going to make much difference if any. You're trying to use a screwdriver as a hammer. If you want a gaming laptop, they're expensive. Gaming desktops are cheaper and less portable. Best bet is to not ask your laptop to do something it's not intended to do, and thats be a hard core game machine.