Re: what is a display memory?

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Display memory is the amount of RAM that is installed on your video board.

If your computer has on-board video, part of your system RAM is allocated to
be used as video RAM. If you have sufficient installed system RAM, this
should not be a problem.

The system RAM is allocated toward video usage in the bios settings and can
be anywhere from 2 meg up to whatever the limit is for that particular M/B.
Many M/B's can allocate 32 meg of your system RAM for video use.

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"jlee_1991" <jlee_1991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B2AB1F91-A850-476F-89C9-ED54CBC34B65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> hey,
> what is a display memory?
> i have installed the sims 2 and it was all working , then a box came up
> about somting derectX 9.0c, which i installed but now it says i have no
> display memory???
> i went onto the help and it did a system overveiw and everything (inc
> directX) was good except the dispay memory , i need 32.0 but i have 0.0,
> please help me!!!!!
>
> jessica
>
> email me on jlee_1991@xxxxxxxxxxx,
> thanks
> plz help ASAP


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