512mb ram as 448mb

[popwar]

i was wondering if there was a way to make my 512mb stick read as 512 instead of fukin 448. I tried to play test drive unlimited but after install and trying to launch. "Not enough system memory" that got me pissed. i can buy another stick but not unless i absolutely have to. i know the remaining 64mb is probably shared with my video card somehow.

[Virtualbody1234]

You are correct. It's shared with your video card. Nothing can be done other than buying another stick.

PC System Requirements:

Operating System : Windows 2000/XP/Vista

CPU : Intel P4 @ 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon 2800+.

GPU (Video Cards) : ATI Radeon 9800 256MB VRAM or Nvidia 6600 GT with 256 MB of VRAM.

Video Cards with vertex/pixel shaders 2.x and above are recommended.

SPU (Sound Cards) : DirectX 9.0 compatible Sound Card.

System Memory : 512 MB, 1 GB recommended

Hard Disk free space: 8 GB

DVD drive: 8x minimum

DirectX 9.0C (included)

[clocker]

Remove your video card.
This will free up the rest of the memory and the game will play just fine in "Braille" mode.

Next!

[Seedler]

Or if you disable vid card, the game will run in "safe mode" which is software rendered 640x480.

Enjoy.

[Smith]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..

[popwar]

yea smith my friend let me use a 512 stick til i get money to buy some. but now stalker says it requires a 1gb minimum to run and it reads as i got 960mb but stalker runs so good enuff.

[neorth]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..

Onboard video cards often use your systems ram instead of having it's own.

A solution could be to buy a cheap video card to use instead of your onboard one. This would most likely also give a boost to your graphic performance

[tesco]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..

Onboard video cards often use your systems ram instead of having it's own.

A solution could be to buy a cheap video card to use instead of your onboard one. This would most likely also give a boost to your graphic performance

That wasn't his question at all.
The thread starter doesn't use onboard video, he has: visiontek radeon x1300 256mb ddr pci

[clocker]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..

Me neither, now that you mention it.
Something is sucking up 64MB of system RAM...wonder what it could be?

[lynx]

The Biostar 6100-m9 has on-board graphics which uses shared memory.

If you haven't disabled it then the system assumes you are intending to use both the on-board GPU and the graphics card, so it allocates memory to the on-board GPU.