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I have a dualboot of XP & Vista.
Well I was reading in XP the Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report with the following report:
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 8 MBIt stays that way during heavy use (photoshop & games).
In Vista I get the following report:
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 256 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 107 MBAt first I was surprised the maximum memory was up to 256mb, but I also saw differences in memory-use while doing heavy stuff. So the question is: Is the graphic memory management under XP capped?
I would like to know the answer to this too. Does the new firmware fix this? I hope thats why games run so poorly IMO (although I never expected to run anything new on IGP)
isnt the cap there to keep the battery life up and above 5 hours?
would be great to uncap it when you have it plugged in…If you go into the driver control panel (Accessed from the control panel) you can hit “3d settings” and set your desktop memory footprint to high. I was having trouble with CS 1.6 and this seemed to solve it. I think it sets your Vram to 128 at all times.
@Smeed this doesn’t lock it to 128mb,
The intel application chooses how much vram your laptop should use and only uses more in vista as the standard OS requires alot of vram just to do day to day tasksJust chaged 3d setting and :
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 8 MB
no change….
Will test a game now and see if i get a better gaming experienceJust to add mine does go up but i’v never got it to 128mb
changing 3d footprint makes no difference…
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