Hello,
I've got a LG P1 Express Dual (LG P1-527A) notebook with onboard video.
I'd like to allocate more RAM to my video card but I can't find any
option within the BIOS or in Windows XP.
Does anybody know whether this is possible?
Thanks!

yeltz wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a LG P1 Express Dual (LG P1-527A) notebook with onboard video.
> I'd like to allocate more RAM to my video card but I can't find any
> option within the BIOS or in Windows XP.
> Does anybody know whether this is possible?
> Thanks!
>

VRAM is allocated by the video driver "as needed".

Q

Quaoar wrote:
> yeltz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've got a LG P1 Express Dual (LG P1-527A) notebook with onboard video.
> > I'd like to allocate more RAM to my video card but I can't find any
> > option within the BIOS or in Windows XP.
> > Does anybody know whether this is possible?
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> VRAM is allocated by the video driver "as needed".
>
> Q

Thanks for the reply. It this specific to LG machines or to notebooks
in general? I have a desktop PC that uses shared RAM for graphics and
I'm able to allocate up to 128 meg to the graphics card through the
BIOS.

yeltz wrote:
> Quaoar wrote:
>> yeltz wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've got a LG P1 Express Dual (LG P1-527A) notebook with onboard video.
>>> I'd like to allocate more RAM to my video card but I can't find any
>>> option within the BIOS or in Windows XP.
>>> Does anybody know whether this is possible?
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>> VRAM is allocated by the video driver "as needed".
>>
>> Q
>
> Thanks for the reply. It this specific to LG machines or to notebooks
> in general? I have a desktop PC that uses shared RAM for graphics and
> I'm able to allocate up to 128 meg to the graphics card through the
> BIOS.
>

As I understand, the newer ATI and Nvidia cards that use shared RAM have
auto-allocation of RAM to VRAM. I think the manufacturers went to
auto-allocation because the average user had no idea how to optimize
video performance.

Perhaps someone with detailed knowledge will respond!

Q

"Quaoar" <quaoar@marcabfleet.com> wrote in message
news:gOqdnfL-ZeuiFRTYnZ2dnUVZ_vyunZ2d@comcast.com
> yeltz wrote:
>> Quaoar wrote:
>>> yeltz wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I've got a LG P1 Express Dual (LG P1-527A) notebook with onboard
>>>> video. I'd like to allocate more RAM to my video card but I can't
>>>> find any option within the BIOS or in Windows XP.
>>>> Does anybody know whether this is possible?
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>> VRAM is allocated by the video driver "as needed".
>>>
>>> Q
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. It this specific to LG machines or to notebooks
>> in general? I have a desktop PC that uses shared RAM for graphics and
>> I'm able to allocate up to 128 meg to the graphics card through the
>> BIOS.
>>
>
> As I understand, the newer ATI and Nvidia cards that use shared RAM
> have auto-allocation of RAM to VRAM. I think the manufacturers went
> to auto-allocation because the average user had no idea how to
> optimize video performance.
>
> Perhaps someone with detailed knowledge will respond!
>
> Q

I have a Gateway MX6124 with the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT) supports up to 128 MB shared
video memory.

Well it only has been 64MB of video RAM this whole time (I owned it 4
months now). I am just guessing it doesn't give it more unless I add
more than 512MB of RAM. Maybe 1GB or 2GB gives it the full 128MB of
shared memory.

--
Bill

I think your video system will take the whole 128MB (from 512MB) if it
needs it. It's really a function of what you are doing with the
graphics chip. Those amounts of video memory are not used for bitmaps,
they are used for texture maps and things like that. You will only need
that kind of memory if you run the types of applications that use a lot
of textures and 3D animation. Mostly these are interactive games with
lots of 3D graphics, and CAD programs. The stuff that non-gaming
"normal" people do (e.g. office applications, mostly) isn't that
demanding and won't push the video graphics capability that much.
However, Vista's "Aero" interface (or, more correctly, "glass"), will do
it. And very unfortunately, at this time Aero/glass is not going to be
supported on GMA900, although it is supported on the very similar
successor, GMA950.


BillW50 wrote:

>
> I have a Gateway MX6124 with the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
> Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT) supports up to 128 MB shared
> video memory.
>
> Well it only has been 64MB of video RAM this whole time (I owned it 4
> months now). I am just guessing it doesn't give it more unless I add
> more than 512MB of RAM. Maybe 1GB or 2GB gives it the full 128MB of
> shared memory.
>

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4589d914$0$16704$4c368faf@roadrunner.com
> I think your video system will take the whole 128MB (from 512MB) if it
> needs it. It's really a function of what you are doing with the
> graphics chip. Those amounts of video memory are not used for
> bitmaps, they are used for texture maps and things like that. You
> will only need that kind of memory if you run the types of
> applications that use a lot of textures and 3D animation. Mostly
> these are interactive games with lots of 3D graphics, and CAD
> programs. The stuff that non-gaming "normal" people do (e.g. office
> applications, mostly) isn't that demanding and won't push the video
> graphics capability that much. However, Vista's "Aero" interface (or,
> more correctly, "glass"), will do it.

Could be Barry! Everything I threw at it only required 64MB of video RAM
minimum. But it never dropped under 64MB or ever used more than 64MB.

> And very unfortunately, at
> this time Aero/glass is not going to be supported on GMA900, although
> it is supported on the very similar successor, GMA950.

No problems here. I'll let you guys work out the bugs and I will
probably join you Vista folks about the year 2011. They should have some
really cool Vista compatible laptops by then. <grin>

--
Bill