RE: Reduce Vista Video memory allocation

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"CKKwan" wrote:

However, the system allocated 800MB for the video
May I know how can I reduce the shared memory?

"shared" means the memory can be used by both OS's applications and graphics:
if you're not playing games it will be used by normal applications.
if you're playing games it will be used by graphics card/games.
Don't care about it.

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