Video card and mobo shared memory question (Pic)

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I have an Nvidia 6800 (AGP) and it seems that even though I have the card installed, the system is trying to use the shared RAM that would otherwise be reserved for the onboard video if I wasn't using a video card. Is this normal? The AGP card has 256mb of GDDR3, and it shows up as using more, including shared system memory.

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I've seen this on laptop cards. I think it's call hypermemory or something like that. Usually I wouldn't worry about it. It is odd that you see it with a desktop card though. Are you sure the drivers are right?
 
My 6800GT never did that. Do you have onboard video that you've forgotten to disable?
 
My 4870 does the same thing and it definitely has no shared memory. I think it's just how Vista is reporting memory available for cache, remember you can use more video memory than your card has onboard, it just gets cached in (slow) system ram.

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htphm42 said:
I've seen this on laptop cards. I think it's call hypermemory or something like that. Usually I wouldn't worry about it. It is odd that you see it with a desktop card though. Are you sure the drivers are right?
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No, this doesn't have any hyper memory features or anything like that. Yes, the drivers are right.

TheGamerZ said:
My 6800GT never did that. Do you have onboard video that you've forgotten to disable?
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Nope, uninstalled and disabled.

Abit667 said:
My 4870 does the same thing and it definitely has no shared memory. I think it's just how Vista is reporting memory available for cache, remember you can use more video memory than your card has onboard, it just gets cached in (slow) system ram.

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It's odd, though, because there's nothing going on that should use more memory than the card has to result in the system switching over to main memory like that. Odd.
 
stop!theradio said:
It's odd, though, because there's nothing going on that should use more memory than the card has to result in the system switching over to main memory like that. Odd.
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It's not using it or wasting it or anything. It's just available should the system ever need more video memory somehow, it's something it would do anyway; similar to the old agp aperture setting.
 
It's how Windows Vista shows things now. It's the amount of RAM available if the graphics card needs to start swapping data out.

EDIT... posted right above. Sorry for repeating. :eek:
 
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