Courtney,<br><br>If you "increase video ram" it will come from system ram. That will make the swap activity even worse. I doubt that the video ram can be upgraded as they are usually both soldered to the board and the video chip can only address X amount anyway.<br>
<br>Hm. That is a lot of video ram for an old P3. It is probably really not dedicated video ram. If you look at the output of free -m you will see the total ram available to the OS. I suspect it will be 16MB less than 512MB.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/19 Courtney Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have a Dell Latitude C810 wtih the maximum RAM
installed, which I believe is 512MB, Pentium III 133 mhz, 16 MB video RAM, 20
Gig HD w/5 Gig free.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does this mean it does not have shared video ram
and will increasing video ram from 16 to 32 MB significantly speed up this
machine ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> It seems to be incessantly paging stuff back
and forth to the HD. Are there settings that will optimize this too ? Will
doubling the video RAM significantly improve this activity, as well
?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for your help,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Courtney</font></div>
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<div><br></div>I don't think this is right. I have a $500 Acer laptop which
came with Vista Home. It can get up to 358MB of RAM from the system, but the
onboard is nowhere near that much. I have an Nvidia 7300 with 128M onboard,
but it can get twice that from the system. I don't think shared RAM is the
problem, unless the video card has *no* onboard RAM. If it has *some*, you
won't have the slow 2D performance. You will get a slowdown with intensive 3D
stuff, though.<br><br>Jim Lynch wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>Jim Popovitch wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><pre>What are the advantages of having dedicated video ram? What are the
downsides to not having dedicated video ram?
Thx.
-Jim P.
</pre></blockquote><pre>One think I keep reading that is a real positive, is that Vista won't
run on a shared video ram. ;)
Jim.
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