Increase video memory on asus laptop

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  1. gorrik

    gorrik Member

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    Hello, i just got an asus g50vt-x5 laptop. it has the geforce 9800m gs video card. vista tells me i can get up to like 2 gigs of shared video memory. I looked through the bios and i couldnt find anything there, what do i need to do to do this?
     
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    AFAIK the OS doesn't control shared video memory. That's a function of hardware. The spec sheet says that your laptop has 512 dedicated video memory.

    If it's a Vista setting, it would be In Vista, not in the BIOS.
     
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    How much main memory do you have?
     
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    i have 4 gigs of regular system memory, and 512 video memory.
    i go into the display setting and under the advanced settings button it says:

    Total Available graphics memory: 2303 mb
    Dedicated video memory: 512 mb
    System Video memory: 0 mb
    Shared System Memory: 1791 mb

    i would like to see how to use the shared memory.

    Is there a such thing as a bios for the video card?
     
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