How to increase dedicated video ram?

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TheVMan123

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I have been searching for hours for an answer. A while ago, I purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop. I upgraded it so it had 8gb of ram, and at the store of purchase it was even advertised as being a laptop for 'portable gaming'. I'm aware that there is a thread on this but it fails to provide much when it comes to an answer. Please give me an answer. I spent extra to upgrade the ram, and recently I began to get into gaming on it. It is at times unbearable. When it comes to ordinary tasks such as browsing the internet or editing videos, my laptop excels, but when I try to run a game like Skyrim at lowest textures and windowed, it stutters like crazy and I struggle to pause it. This is not the only game that suffers from issues like this. From the website: canirunit.com, my laptop is classified as great, but one weak link comes from something called: 'dedicated video ram'. To run games well, I need 512mb of dedicated VRam, and I only have 128mb. Please give me an answer on how to fix/upgrade this. I'm not going to buy another laptop and I even spent extra (as previously mentioned) to upgrade the ram in an attempt to make it better for gaming. A good answer would be very appreciated. Thank you in advance
 
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Can you post the specs of your laptop? Specifically which GPU it has.

Unfortunately, I expect it's got either integrated graphics or a very low end dedicated card. I doubt that there's anything you can do; the GPU is likely soldered down.

You might be able to take it back and get a refund if they said it was a gaming laptop under consumer protection laws.
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Can you post the specs of your laptop? Specifically which GPU it has.

Unfortunately, I expect it's got either integrated graphics or a very low end dedicated card. I doubt that there's anything you can do; the GPU is likely soldered down.

You might be able to take it back and get a refund if they said it was a gaming laptop under consumer protection laws.
 
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post the model of the unit so we can get the vendor info we need the long model number on the bottom of the unit. if the unit is a gaming unit or sold as a gaming unit look in the bios most newer laptops that are gaming units have to video cards. if the bios is set to max power then the nvidia or amd gpu may be turned off. in the bios also under primany display you should be able to give the ipgpu up to 512k of ram if the vendor lets you in the bios. use gpu-z and make sure if there is an aftermarket gpu it showing up. if not you may want to take battery and power off the laptop and see if the gpu card is seated on your laptop.
 
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Any option to change amount of RAM reserved for the video card would be in the BIOS. If it's not there, nothing you can do. Someone had a post earlier where amount of video RAM a game was using was too low, it was because they were using DX9 mode instead of DX11. See what DX version your video card supports and make sure the games are set to that if possible.
 
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