OK... maybe this is a Windows 7 thing.. just something I've never seen before.
I have a 9800GTX+ Video card with half a gig of DDR3 RAM built in. I get some really crazy video ram usage stats from within Aces High, and although I've learned not to trust those numbers... my DxDiag report shows something strange. The "Dedicated" video RAM seems accurate enough at 499MB, however it also shows "SHARED" video RAM of 1375MB (Which would be why AH reports almost 2 GIGS of video memory!)
Keep in mind I also have 4 GIGS of DDR3 system RAM, and a C2D E7400 running stock speed of 2.8GHZ.
Is this just a 7/Vista thing or is this a setting somewhere? I'm extremely fluent in XPanese, but pretty much skipped Vista altogether, skipping straight from XP to 7RC... actually running a dual boot with both no separate hard drives, but almost never boot into XP anymore.
Thanks!
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 9800 GTX+
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0613&SUBSYS_0592196E&REV_A2
Display Memory: 1875 MB
Dedicated Memory: 499 MB
Shared Memory: 1375 MB
Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: NTS0006
Native Mode: 1680 x 1050(p) (59.954Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 8.15.0011.8585 (English)
Driver Version: 8.15.11.8585
DDI Version: 10
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/1/2009 05:02:00, 9443840 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4553-11CF-575B-992502C2C535}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0613
SubSys ID: 0x0592196E
Revision ID: 0x00A2
Driver Strong Name: oem3.inf:NVIDIA.Mfg.NTamd64.6.0:Section001:8.15.11.8585:pci\ven_10de&dev_0613
Rank Of Driver: 00E62001
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C
