Simviation Forum - disabling memory share in vista?

Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 9:15am

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just installed vista today, and noticed i had high memory usage, and the numbers didnt add up in task manager, looking at my advanced display settings i noticed that windows is allocating 254mb of my system memory for video memory, i have no onboard graphics chip so this cant be done in bios (i looked) its something vista is doing.

does anyone have any ideas on how to disable vista from sharing the memory?

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Reply #1 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 3:06pm

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Reply #2 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 4:04pm

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thats what i thought but i looked at my advanded display properties and it said 254mb of my RAM was being used as shared memory for my video card, bringing my cards total available memory to about 750mb.

did some adding up from my task manager, and when i add the two together i get the amount of memory being used when idle. if i can disable this shared memory then my memory usage would be the same as it is in xp (well a bit more but not like it is at the moment)

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Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2008 at 7:14am

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J. wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 4:04pm:

thats what i thought but i looked at my advanded display properties and it said 254mb of my RAM was being used as shared memory for my video card, bringing my cards total available memory to about 750mb.

did some adding up from my task manager, and when i add the two together i get the amount of memory being used when idle. if i can disable this shared memory then my memory usage would be the same as it is in xp (well a bit more but not like it is at the moment)

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