Re: GTA Vice City

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Anthony Procissi [MSFT] (procissi_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:13:21 -0800

I'll bet your graphics card is onboard and has 32MB of "Shared Memory"...
and though I'm unsure on exactly how that works; I suspect it means the
graphics chip has no independent physical memory of its own and is allocated
system memory.... so, the OS has 512 minus the 32 set aside for graphics =
480.
...ol' "Punch Card Jimmy" will be around soon and I'm sure he'll be able to
elaborate on that. :)

As for the poor performance, 32megs of video memory is the minimum system
requirement for Vice City... some slowness isn't too surprising...

How slow is this slow you're talking about? 

-- 
-Anthony Procissi [MSFT]
 US-Application Experience & Compatibility
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"DJ Nite" <AtomicDJ@msn.com> wrote in message 
news:A13ED46E-C731-4683-A8A1-67D8A590D58A@microsoft.com...
> heres my situation:
> this game ran kinda slow at times(GTA VC) so then I upgraded my mem to 2 
> sticks of 256 which would give me 512mb ram.
> it just sees 480mb for some reason. it was like this before when it had 
> just one stick of 256 in it. it didnt show the full mem. to begin with. 
> The game played fine before the upgrade in memory. I have uninstalled it 
> reinstalled got the patch I have done everything short of shooting the 
> computer!! The only thing I have not done yet is take the memory I put in 
> out and try to play it like that. This is the only game I have so I have 
> no way to test to see if it is just this game or something else with my 
> computer.
> HP Pavillion 524w
> Windows Version:
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Service Pack 1
> BIOS Version:
> KM266 - 42302e31/AM37307
> CPU Type:
> AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
> CPU Speed:
> 1731 MHz
> L2 Cache Size:
> 256
> L2 Cache Speed:
> 577
> Video Controller:
> S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR
> Video Memory:
> 32 MB

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