My RAM is shared with the display adapter. How do i increase...

Answer by tetsusaiga83
Submitted on 3/18/2006
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This topic has gotten alot of wierd feedback, I'll help set everything straight. Some bios have options to increase onboard video memory but every motherboard has a different bios. some boads may only let you use 1mb and some up to 128 or possibly more. this also depends on the ammount of ram you have also, if you only have 128mbs of ram its not going to allow you to set aside all of it for memory. if you dont have option in your bios to change memory values then it simply goes by how much ram you have, the more ram the more it will set aside for video untill it reaches the boards maximum. onboard memory isnt very good anyway, you can run games better with a 64mb gforce card than you can on a onboard 128. alot of people think memory is everything but when it comes to gaming it doesnt mean much at all. just get a video card, it has its own GPU so it doesnt strain your CPU as much. also make sure you get a good quality one like name brand nvidia because if you skimp out you will realize that all cards arent created equal and alot of games wont even open due to lack of rendering capabilities of your card, like for instance most games now require shaders and alot of cards dont have that so you wont even see the main title of your game.

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Question by Bazooka
Submitted on 12/25/2003
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My RAM is shared with the display adapter. How do i increase the allocation to my display adapter?

Answer by anoop
Submitted on 3/19/2004
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i don't think such a thing is possible. probably u might have gone wrong. As the video adapter has a certain amount of RAM or so called the memory, which makes it function better. in current market it varies from 16MB-128MB. well there is nothing like sharing it with the primary memory(RAM). The video card it's own memory and no memory can be shared.

Answer by b_boink964
Submitted on 5/30/2004
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i think anoop dont understand what hes saying, maybe hes just an average computer user pretending to be an advance user. of course you can increase the allocation of your shared video memory(on board video). enter the BIOS setup and go to integrated peripherals, then to video option, and then finally go to agp aperture size. there you can set your shared video memory to 8mb, 16mn,32, and 64mb. right at this time 64mb is the maximum allocation of video memory in an onboard video adapter. i wish motherboard manufacturers could give an option to share an onboard video ram upto 128 mb <b_boink>

Answer by johns
Submitted on 6/9/2004
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If your PC's not a lappy, install a real video card and you'll be away!

Answer by jameswhe03
Submitted on 9/25/2004
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in my bios it doesnt have the integrated peripherals section, in fact it's a pretty useless bios! is there any other way i can increase my shared video memory?i have one that should be 64mb (intel 82845G graphics) but it's only using 6mb according to my report (which is done on the graphics properties). thanks if anyone can help

Answer by kraheja
Submitted on 1/8/2005
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Yes, definitely a big problem. I use a 2.4 ghz laptop with 64 mb onboard shared vram which is simply insufficient for my animation requirements which are graphics intensive. So far, I have not received any feedback from manufacturers such as ati, on the possible solution through a usb device that could somehow connect with the mother board and allow vram upgrades upto 256/512 mb.

Answer by bladescar
Submitted on 1/10/2005
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just want to say that the video memory CAN be shared with RAM

Answer by oki
Submitted on 3/15/2005
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my laptop bios does support shared video memory up to 128MB, its really nice, lets me paly HL2 nicley, but most laptop manufactures doesn't let u have that function.

Answer by Gangsta_0000000000
Submitted on 4/25/2005
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IM JUST LOOKIN 4 SOMTHEN LIKE THAT SO FUK U

Answer by josh
Submitted on 5/8/2005
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there is a program called memmax that frees and balances video memory do a search on memmax

Answer by Shadi ALFTAYEH
Submitted on 5/31/2005
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I HAVE WINDOWS XP HOW CAN I GO FOR BIOS setup AND EDIT THERE BECAUSE I WANT TO INCREASE MY SHARE MAMORY OF DISPLY CARD .PLEASE REPLY BY STEPS

Answer by ry
Submitted on 6/30/2005
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could you explain how to do this step by step?

Answer by celebraces
Submitted on 7/30/2005
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hi, same problem. mines already set at 64 MB, but in windows it only shows up as 4MB.

Answer by ravi kiran
Submitted on 9/17/2005
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I want to increase my display memory.In bios it is showing 64MB where as at the desktop it shows 4MB.I am not able to install any latest games or softwares.I could not install google earth also.please suggest me something.

Answer by confused
Submitted on 9/26/2005
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I am also trying to increase my shared video memory. I have tried going into BIOS, but there is simply no option available for changing this at all. Can anyone help?

Answer by Mad John
Submitted on 2/6/2006
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I'd like to be able to take credit for this, but to be real, b_boink's answer is the real deal. One addendum; BIOS alteration doesn't always use the same terminology, so read though your board's info before the deadly "Save Settings And Exit" line. But the factual stuff about onboard video memory reallocation is right on the money (I do this for clients all the time); add a DIMM and allocate half of it (up to the current 64Mb onboard limit) and it's a cheap, fast upgrade. -Go for it! -MJ

Answer by diyasuki
Submitted on 1/16/2007
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I am having the laptop and i too also have the same problem when playing onimusha3 that "FAILED CREATING THE DIRECT3D DEVICE" what i have to do, please reply me my Laptop Configuration is AMD Turion 64 ML-34 Processor 60GD HDD 256MB DDR please help me in this problem

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Answer by computer illogical
Submitted on 10/25/2005
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i didnt understand a word that came out of that man i would like to be able to increase my video card ram by the 64 maximum because right now my video card only has 64 and 2x would be a lot better but i dont know what you just told the other guy to do

Answer by awsomedude
Submitted on 11/22/2005
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anoop is talking out of his ass

Answer by haha
Submitted on 12/4/2005
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is it possible to take 64 MB from each module... i have two and it'll add up to 128 MB

Answer by ravi
Submitted on 1/18/2006
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hey dudes...first of all....let me say that yes the previous answer is right......we can't increse memory more than wat the v card offers.....bbut...that is not what we are looking for....we are looking for ways...that we will be able to increase it!!!!some sort of hard disk space sharing or nething else...please look out for it

Answer by hate_anoop
Submitted on 1/24/2006
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anoop is just pretending.. wahaha

Answer by matt
Submitted on 3/9/2006
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Answer by SAHIL
Submitted on 4/27/2006
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bazooka go to bios click on video configuration and select agp aperture 128 mb

Answer by GUR
Submitted on 6/7/2006
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you can minimize amount of shared memory by going to motherboard setup(you enter setup by preesing DEL key in most computers at start up). I did so.

Answer by rambus
Submitted on 9/25/2006
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enter the BIOS setup and go to integrated peripherals, then to video option, and then finally go to agp aperture size. there you can set your shared video memory to 8MB, 16mn,32, and 64MB. right at this time 64MB is the maximum allocation of video memory in an onboard video adapter.

Answer by Deepak
Submitted on 10/14/2006
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How do i increase my PC Video Memory if i have 128MB RAM and P4 Processor and Intel Graphics Card?

Answer by Maikeru
Submitted on 2/7/2007
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im just asking how to enter or open the bios setup where do i start becuase im not a advanced user and im just new to this thanks!

Answer by aifjwpjfiwpajf
Submitted on 2/8/2007
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trying to get up nig

Answer by anuj
Submitted on 7/14/2007
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I have a sony vaio laptop .... i have a total available graphics memory of 358 MB , shared system memory of 230 MB and system video memory of 128 MB...i dont have an option in my bios either to change the allocated memory...what do i do to increase my system video memory...i dont have a graphics card and i have windows vista installed..

Answer by lazyboy
Submitted on 7/18/2007
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In my motherboard(MSI)-pro(AMD64) combination, i dont have any option like that. Does that mean i cannot do it........