Video memory?

[fixerman]

Hello folks. I am a new member and I like the look of this forum:)

I have just taken delivery of a new Acer Aspire 5683WLMi. On the spec sheet from the supplier it states that the graphics Processor is NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 SE Turbocache supporting 256MB. The video memory is stated as GDDR2 SDRAM 128MB. On the sticker on the notebook it states up to 400MB NVIDEA GEforce Go 7600 shared memory.

As a newby I am confused. Can some kind person advise me how to check the video memory.:|

[BrotherKung]

Hi fixerman, and welcome to the forums!

The easy way to do it is go to 'run' from your start menu, and type in 'dxdiag'.
It will spit out most of your system specifications, and under the 'display' tab, it will tell you your approximate video memory.

[fixerman]

Thanks for the quick response. I cannot seem to find the "Run" option on Vista Home Premium.

[fixerman]

What I should have done was simply use the new Start Search dialog box, in the same way I used the old 'Run' command in XP. All that is need is to type the name of the executable, e.g. cmd, in the dialog box.

Thanks again.

[Evaders99]

Basically Turbocache is a hack that allows them to say the video card supports 256 MB. Well it does.... but it only has 128 MB dedicated memory. Where does the other 128 MB come from? It comes from system memory.. your RAM. That means its a lot slower and is shared (or rather stolen) from the system memory.

[fixerman]

Basically Turbocache is a hack that allows them to say the video card supports 256 MB. Well it does.... but it only has 128 MB dedicated memory. Where does the other 128 MB come from? It comes from system memory.. your RAM. That means its a lot slower and is shared (or rather stolen) from the system memory.

Thanks for the information. I think I understand it a lot better now. At least I have 2GB of Ram, so the "stolen" system memory for video should not be too obvious....or should it?:huh:

[Evaders99]

Probably not. You won't use the video memory except to play games.. and I'd expect most games would rely on video memory (though both are important for gaming.. system memory to load game data, video memory for the video to process that data)

[FerrariZoid]

What I should have done was simply use the new Start Search dialog box, in the same way I used the old 'Run' command in XP. All that is need is to type the name of the executable, e.g. cmd, in the dialog box.

Thanks again.

Fixerman, you can add the 'run' command to your taskbar....just go to customize task bar after right clicking the 'orb' and selecting 'properties'