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ArcaneKnite
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 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: Just bought a new laptop and it has 3GB of RAM but |
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it says that only 2.74GB of it is usuable.
I am running on 64bit Win7, and the graphics card is GT 330M, not the integrated kind.
Any ideas as to why it might be like this, and how it can be fixed?
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Hero
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Your shitty integrated Geforce does not have onboard ram and is using 256mb of your 3gb ram.
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ArcaneKnite
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | Your shitty integrated Geforce does not have onboard ram and is using 256mb of your 3gb ram. |
I clearly said that the GT 330M is not integrated and therefore does not use onboard RAM.
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Hero
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Obviously it is. Otherwise your pc would be using the whole 3gb even on 32bit.
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Hero, get lost if you can't help but trolling threads. The GT 330M is indeed a discrete card.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0.html
ArcaneKnite, open up Resource Monitor (Win+R, resmon) to the Memory tab and see how much memory was reserved for the hardware. Chances are that your laptop uses Nvidia Optimus (discrete + integrated graphics, switching on demand), in which some memory is shared by the integrated graphics chip.
Look around the BIOS and check for options hinting memory mapping and integrated graphics options, experiment around those values by turning on mapping and disabling integrated graphics.
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Hero
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| what kind of laptop? I'll bet anything its still using your ram. ANYTHING. He gave no laptop model.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Hm. Why is it that I have 4GB of ram and only 2GB 'usable' ? I should at least of 3 GB or 3.5GB on 32-bit system.
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good start is a dxdiag
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ArcaneKnite
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Haswell wrote: | Hero, get lost if you can't help but trolling threads. The GT 330M is indeed a discrete card.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0.html
ArcaneKnite, open up Resource Monitor (Win+R, resmon) to the Memory tab and see how much memory was reserved for the hardware. Chances are that your laptop uses Nvidia Optimus (discrete + integrated graphics, switching on demand), in which some memory is shared by the integrated graphics chip.
Look around the BIOS and check for options hinting memory mapping and integrated graphics options, experiment around those values by turning on mapping and disabling integrated graphics. |
It says 266MB is hardware reserved on my resource monitor.
My laptop doesn't have nVidia Optimus unfortunately, but I can manually switch between discrete and onboard graphics. However, even when I am running off my GT 330M, the RAM is still 2.74GB.
@Hero - http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/acer-acer-aspire-15-6-laptop-featuring-intel-core-i3-350m-processor-as5745pg-5610-black-as5745pg-5610/10159694.aspx?path=1c9cd33d161ed2d60e82e67cfc71a49fen02
This is my laptop.
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bluewind55
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if you can switch between discrete and on board graphics then it means you have both a stand alone card and an Integrated Graphics card on your laptop?
That doesn't seem to make sense to me. But if that's true then it maybe possible that both are running even though you have the GT 330M selected.
Perhaps, try to turn off or completely disable the on board card?
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PunkMilitia
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Sounds to me like "a" gpu in your laptop is using around 256mb Shared ram, if you do indeed have a OB-GPU and a discrete one, simply go into BIOS and disable the OB-GPU and then you get your 256mb ram back, simple.
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