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[ËQINÖX]

So was looking over my system and noticed that the graphics card was showing as 2.5gig memory when in fact my card is 1gig dedicated is there anyway to stop windows 7 from uneseseraly useing another 1.5gig

[twitchy]

So was looking over my system and noticed that the graphics card was showing as 2.5gig memory when in fact my card is 1gig dedicated is there anyway to stop windows 7 from uneseseraly useing another 1.5gig

Hmm something doesn't add up.  Do you by chance have both a built in graphics chip in the motherboard and an external graphics card installed too?  If so, some recent advances in drivers for graphics boards have been able to use both at the same time and it could be that the built in graphics chip is using shared memory.   IF that is true, then you will need to go into the bios and make SURE the internal graphics chip is disabled.  Most I know.

[Saiboogu]

Mine shares system memory too - it's Vista/7 feature. Don't think you need to worry about it - it's automatically managed, Windows will reallocate memory as needed.

Something I learned from my time with linux that MS is finally coming around to.. Free RAM is wasted RAM. In linux RAM is always nearly 100% consumed. If an app or the system doesn't need it, it'll start sharing it with video or tossing copies of recently accessed files in there. If an app tries to allocate it, instantly free it up. From what I've read this is a behavior that MS is trying to emulate in the newer OSes, to make the most of your resources. RAM is the fastest storage in the system, might as well use it when it's sitting around.

[twitchy]

Aww, makes sense though I would have been surprised had I seen it.

[PernDragon]

Scary thing is that maybe one day Windows might be worth a crap, instead of having to switch between Windows and Linux.

[Saiboogu]

Yup. I've run linux desktops off and on for years, but the cycle of Vista/2008 Server/7 is the longest I've stuck with MS. Vista was still a bit painful, but that was also before virtualization was readily available and well-performing. Right now I'm already running a virtual XP for work since certain things don't get on well with 64bit 7. So I could go back to Linux with no problems and keep that VM. But.. I'm still enjoying 7. It actually works pretty well. MS can learn, evidently.

Still think I'll make the leap back to linux for awhile. Some new things I want to experience, and booting it up for a few hours doesn't cut it. Plus, as incredible as I find it that I can get a 3d accelerated desktop in a virtual machine (it's a bit surreal, seeing window effects on the linux windows, in a windowed VM, running in 7 with aero enabled.. technology is grand :D) the effects are still slower. Need to experience it native awhile.

[Mojo]

aw.. VMs... oh the experiments i used to do in those bad boys... yum... :D

[ËQINÖX]

Sandbag i moved your hardware posts here so it has a topic of its own http://www.prclan.net/index.php/topic,9028.0.html