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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Tigger29 on September 11, 2009, 07:16:03 PM

Title: Brain Fart?
Post by: Tigger29 on September 11, 2009, 07:16:03 PM

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

Title: Re: Brain Fart?
Post by: Masherbrum on September 12, 2009, 12:38:20 AM

You're running 64 bit.   I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit now.   The OS pools the memory, you're fine.