Re: Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card
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Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:26, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond
>> > the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram.
>>
>> No, nor would you want to if you could. Video RAM is typically
>> considerably
>> faster than on-board RAM, because it needs more speed. Even if you could
>> borrow RAM from the system for video, the performance would be so
>> awful you
>> couldn't game on it, and probably see screen updates.
>
> Is this true for old non AGP cards? I have one of the latest PIIIs
> which mother board doesn't support AGP. As there's no AGP support, I
> suspected the PCI video wouldn't allow me to use rendering neither
> fancy stuff (which is actually true). So the card is not meant for
> gaming or anything like that, I just wanted to be able to increase
> resolution to 1024x768 and color depth to 24...
>
> I kind of remember in the old times the linux kernel allowed tweaking
> things a bit with boot parameters, but I searched the web for anything
> fitting my requirements unsuccessfully... Maybe as you stated the
> answer is plane NO.
Sorry, but that's the hardware.
Your best bet is to go to Ebay and look for a PCI card with more RAM
than your current card has.
IMO, though, color depth 24 won't give you much. 1024x768x16 should
be more than useful for anything you'll do.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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