I have lots of RAM installed on my PC, and i was wondering that if there is a way to redistribute some of it to my graphic card and make it into VRAM. If it is possible, how can you do it?
PS: Can you do it the other way around?? (redistribute VRAM to RAM)??
2007-06-18 07:58:42 · 2 answers · asked by skyscraperxd 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The only control you have that is similar to what you are asking is if you are talking about shared video RAM. For that, the BIOS generally allows you to specify how much memory to dedicate to video but the range is generally defined (i.e. 32 MB to 64 MB for example). If you have a graphics card, the memory on that card is discreet from the system RAM on the motherboard and can not be interchanged (at least not without a soldering gun and an in depth knowledge of the hardware).
Now one thing you could look at is using the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) for specialized processing similar to what the CPU does. You might want to take a look at OpenGL or DirectX kits if you are interested.
2007-06-18 08:11:05 · answer #1 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless you write specialty software there's really no way to do what you want. You can't really "redistribute" RAM the way you want because VRAM is only VRAM (as opposed to RAM) because it's physically built into the video card. It's located there so that the video hardware can have near instantaneous access to it. You *could* remap the data from the PC to the card (or vice-versa) but doing so completely eliminates the speed advantage that you get from having physically dedicated VRAM.
2007-06-18 15:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋