- Determining the amount of Video RAM installed
- Posted by SlickRCBD on November 10th, 2005
I've recently aquired a used Windows 98SE computer a few months back,
and I confess that I'm more familiar with Macs than Windows. The person
I got it from is not computer literate, and had lost the manuals for it.
Is there any way to determine how much video RAM the computer has? When
I asked the former owner, his response was "What's video RAM? All I know
is that it has 256MB of RAM". Needless to say he didn't know.
- Posted by Ron Badour on November 10th, 2005
Open control panel, system, device manager and see what is listed under
display adapter. You may have to use the info you find there in a
Google.com search to find the amount of video ram.
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- Posted by SlickRCBD on November 10th, 2005
Ron Badour wrote:
"Intel(R) 810e Chipset Graphics Driver (DC 133 FSB 133) 4.11.01.1361"
"Manufacturer: Intel Corporation"
"Hardware version: 003"
Nothing to indicate how much vRAM is there. Unless I'm suppost to add up
all the "Memory Range"'s under "Resources"? The resource panel has the
following table:
Resource Type Setting
Memory Range 000A0000-000AFFFF
Memory Range 000B0000-000BFFFF
Input/Output Range 03B0-03BB
Input/Output Range 03C0-03DF
Interupt Request 09
Memory Range F8000000-FBFFFFFF
Memory Range FF000000-FF07FFFF
The number is a little over 8272K (or 0x40A0027 bytes), unless I made an
error entering the numbers.
- Posted by Jonny on November 10th, 2005
Download everest for the lavasys website.
After expanding the file, run everest.exe.
Scroll down to display, click the "+" next to it.
Scroll down to GPU and select it.
The onboard memory size for the graphics chip is shown on the right hand
pane.
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- Posted by Ron Badour on November 10th, 2005
I believe you have on-board video which means there is no extra ram for the
video function--it shares your system ram. If you remove the PC cover, you
will probably find that instead of a video card, the backside of the monitor
connection will be a cable running to the motherboard.
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- Posted by SlickRCBD on November 10th, 2005
Ron Badour wrote:
to figure out is if I can buy my own copy of a game called "Neverwinter
Nights". It says on the company webpage that it requires a "16 MB
TNT2-class OpenGL 1.2 compliant video card" and I have NO idea if what
this machine has fits the bill.
I'm starting to think it would be easier to borrow my friend's CDs and
install a pirated copy just to see if it would work. Granted, we
wouldn't be able to play on-line because we'd have the same CD key, but
it would do for the purposes of a test. The main reason I'm not doing it
that way is that I want to know exactly what I've got so that I can do
some actual shopping without having to worry that what I buy won't run
on my system.
- Posted by Ron Badour on November 10th, 2005
It is not going to work or at least not satisfactorily. You can probably
disable the on board video through jumper switches on the motherboard or
perhaps through the BIOS and then buy a video card that will run the game
you want. Here's some info:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000193.htm
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- Posted by glee on November 10th, 2005
Right-click the Desktop, click Properties on the menu that appears, then Settings
tab> Advanced button> Adapter tab....does it list the video memory there?
Also, Start> Run> Dxdiag
Look on the Display tab
As Ron states, if you have onboard video, it may only show what amount of the system
RAM is being shared with the display adapter.
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