-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 7/19/06, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:26, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond >> > the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. >> >> No, nor would you want to if you could. Video RAM is typically >> considerably >> faster than on-board RAM, because it needs more speed. Even if you could >> borrow RAM from the system for video, the performance would be so >> awful you >> couldn't game on it, and probably see screen updates. > > Is this true for old non AGP cards? I have one of the latest PIIIs > which mother board doesn't support AGP. As there's no AGP support, I > suspected the PCI video wouldn't allow me to use rendering neither > fancy stuff (which is actually true). So the card is not meant for > gaming or anything like that, I just wanted to be able to increase > resolution to 1024x768 and color depth to 24... > > I kind of remember in the old times the linux kernel allowed tweaking > things a bit with boot parameters, but I searched the web for anything > fitting my requirements unsuccessfully... Maybe as you stated the > answer is plane NO.
Sorry, but that's the hardware. Your best bet is to go to Ebay and look for a PCI card with more RAM than your current card has. IMO, though, color depth 24 won't give you much. 1024x768x16 should be more than useful for anything you'll do. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEz3fQS9HxQb37XmcRAmG3AJ9Me4Pe5K5gvItFjulg2dRmn4n6zgCg6Kpl P0UjYwAgsKqpU8e53VFxJHI= =sg4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
