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    Changing Shared Video Memory

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by manoy385, Jan 12, 2008.

  1. manoy385

    manoy385 Newbie

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    I just got my M1530 today and installed 2 gigs of ram in it. I downloaded the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go and checked the properties of the driver and it looks like its taking up 767mb of shared memory. Is there a way to reduce this? I already looked into to bios and can't find any settings related to shared memory.

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    manoy385, Jan 12, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The card can take UP TO 767MB, but only if needed. Right now just rendering the desktop, its taking at most 8MB.

    Also, you cannot change the amount by editing/tweaking a driver.
     
    Greg, Jan 12, 2008
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    if it isn't broken, don't fix it.. unless you're overclocking lol

    it probably doesn't matter unless you feel it's really bringing your computer down.
     
    namaiki, Jan 12, 2008
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