Video Ram

[Melvin_Lewis]

Does any one know if I can emulate video momery on a laptop? My Dell laptop has a Geforce2 mobile with 8 meg of video ram and 320 meg of DDR ram. Can I alocate some of my memory to VRam? and if so how would I do it?


Thank You,
Melvin Lewis

 

[cleeve]

I think you might be mistaken...

Your Geforce2 GO probably has 32 megs of DDR memory. I don't think they made a Geforce2 GO with 8 megs of ram.

As it's an add-in card and not part of the motherboard, you cannot allocate extra memory to the video card.

But 32 megs should be just fine for any games you're running. Every game out there has lower resolution textures so that they'll work on 32 meg cards just fine.

- Cleeve

 

[Melvin_Lewis]

In systems information under System Summary, Components, Display it says:

Name Dell 2650
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0112&SUBSYS_00F31028&REV_B2\4&34C0AFA1&0&0008
Adapter Type GeForce2 Go, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description Dell 2650
Adapter RAM 8.00 MB (8,388,608 bytes)
Installed Drivers nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 6.13.10.2963
INF File oem1.inf (nv4_WinXP_DualviewMinMemSize section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1024 x 768 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE7FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF7FFFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 9
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nv4_mini.sys (6.13.10.2963, 917.70 KB (939,722 bytes), 12/31/1979 11:00 PM)


Am I misunderstanding this??

 

[jankphil]

that doesn't look right....it might just be feeding you a wrong answer. Try downloading 3dmark01 and look at what it says, it should give you a reliable answer. I don't ever remember hearing about a geforce 2 with 8 megs, or even 16 megs. but they could have made some real cheap gf2's with 16 meggers, but 32's the lowest i remember -_-

"What kind of idiot are you?"
"I don't know, what kinds are there?"

 

[cleeve]

Here, Nvidia's site claims that the least amount of memory the Geforce2 Go had is 16 Megs:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=geforce2go

I'm not sure what's going on, all I can wildly guess is that the laptop's motherboard was designed with a built-in display adapter with 8 Megs... so the system information is an anomaly as it doesn't seem to be reading the correct video Ram. That doesn't mean it's not there though.

You mentioned "320 megs DDR", where did you get that number from?
A geforce 2 Go might have 32 Megs of DDR, so that's what I suspect you have...

- Cleeve