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evil Homer

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February 27th, 2007 17:00

X1300 shared memory

Right, after a bit of searching I discovered that even though Dell advertises the X1300 in the Inspiron 6400 as having 128mb memory, but when its really 64mb and takes the other 64mb from the system memory (i.e. Hypermemory)
 
Now, I've been getting very very sluggish performance in any game I've installed. Some of the games are a couple of years old now, so can't believe it can be that bad.
 
After looking at the display properties for the X1300, it says the following:
 
Total Available Graphics Memory: 827mb
 
Dedicated Video Memory: 64mb
 
System Video Memory: 0mb
 
Shared System Memory: 763mb
 
Could it be because of Vista its struggling? I know the card isn't much cop anyway, but it should be capable of running some stuff better than it is.
 
Also, on another note, the Catalyst Control Panel has decided to stop working. I fixed it last time by reinstalling the whole Catalyst driver set. Don't want to bugger around with that everytime.
 
 
  • evil Homer

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    Posted February 27th, 2007 20:00

    Okay, cracked it.
     
    For some unexplained reason, the Catalyst Control Centre was defaulting the power selection when the notebook was plugged in to maximum battery rather than maximum performance.
     
    Made the change and now my Windows Index has risen from 2.0 to 3.1, with both the Aero Desktop and Gaming Graphics increasing to 3.1 each.
     
    So if anyone else experiences this problem, here's the way of fixing it.
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    Posted March 1st, 2007 13:00

    thank you this was driveing me crazy i have 1150 xpress and i used to be able to play css on high in xp and now i couldnt even play it on low cause fps was around 10.