You guys do know that the GMA 950 steals 8 real megabytes from system
ram, right?

On Aug 23, 5:07 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote:
> The original 64MB is dedicated vram soldered onto the GPU
>
> The additional 192MB is System ram being shared with the gpu
>
> Any RAM that is being dynamically added is from what I understand is a hard
> drive page file being shared as dynamic swap memory for texture storage. I'm
> pretty sure that's what windows is reporting.
>
> THEfog
>
> On 23/08/2010 2:01 PM, "Espionage724" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This applies to my Radeon HD 3200, but may apply to the 950GMA and
> other cards as well.
>
> My card has 256MB of memory, but windows claims it to have 1.4GB of
> memory.
>
> Some games claim my card to have 256MB of texture memory (MW2 and GTA4
> in particular), but I don't understand what the rest of that memory I
> have does, or if its in use.
>
> I noticed this on UT2K4 also on the 950GMA, where it would only claim
> me to have 64MB of vram, whereas Windows reports about 256MB
> available.
>
> So what is the extra memory used for?
>
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