Video card number crunch?
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Answer:
No, the 256MB of Video RAM on your Video Card is "COMPLETELY" Separate from your System memory of 512MB and is never added to your system Ram.What is happening to you is you have an "ONBOARD" Video that is turned on and should be disabled as you have a separate Video Card (ATI X1300). This Onboard Video "IS SHARED Memory" and is using 128MB of System RAM, thats why is only totals 384MB...(128+384=512) or (512-128=384). When you boot your computer, press the "DEL" key to enter your BIOS Setup and turn off the Onboard Video...Change the setting to (PCIx) if that is the type of Video card your ATI is. that should disable the onboard video built into your motherboard and enable you new ATI X1300 PCIx Video Card to work properly and you will no longer lose 128MB to the onboard video. Also 512MB is batrely enough to run windows, let alone for you to play any 3D Video Games. Try adding another 2GB of Ram to your system. For the best price on RAM check out http://PRICEWATCH.COM
it is shared video memory, so it is stealing it from the ram you have installed on your motherboard
no you video ram is separate from system ram. your system alone will use 256 ez.. try spyware scanner, and defrag drive and disc clean up..
1. Your graphics card's ram has nothing to do with your motherboards ram as such and so it isn't added to the total at all.
2. Sounds to me like you are reading the available memory of the stick, (what's not being used already by programs that are running) instead of the total of the stick. Btw, 512mbs isn't near enough memory these days to run the new graphics intensive games.
3. Your graphics card is effected by CPU usage...the more resources that are being used the slower the card will also run...being that your CPU & 512mbs memory then becomes the choking point in your system no matter how good a graphics card you have.
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