Thinkpads Forum

First of all, let me say: this is a great forum, helped me a lot to choose for my thinkpad X61.
I got the notebook for almost 2 weeks now. No real problems, battery is great.
But i'm a bit of a gamer (most old-school games), but even old games like WarCraft 3 don't run really smooth (1024x768, low-med settings).
I have the T7300 cpu en 3GB of ram, so I don't think that's the problem, so I thought increasing the amount of memory dedicated to the video card might help.
But now comes the problem: I can't find how to set that amount, not in the BIOS and neither in Windows (Vista Business).

I found on the Intel-website that even games like Age of Empires III, Call of Duty 2 and STALKER should be 'playable', so Warcraft 3 should be easy as hell.
link: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/i ... 026200.htm

Yank wrote:I can't find how to set that amount, not in the BIOS and neither in Windows (Vista Business).

You can't find it because there is nothing to find. There is no parameter for adjusting the memory usage by the Intel GPU.

Cheers,

Bill B.

bill bolton wrote:You can't find it because there is nothing to find. There is no parameter for adjusting the memory usage by the Intel GPU.

Cheers,

Bill B.

Too bad, most onboard onboard GPU's have it.
Thanks anyway.

Yank wrote:Too bad, most onboard onboard GPU's have it.

Actually "most" don't, as by far the majority of laptops ship with "onboard" integrated GPUs. Its only that those that ship with "onboard" discrete GPUs which do, and this is a relatively small percentage of all laptops.

Cheers,

Bill B.

I believe the Intel driver automatically allocates/releases graphics memory from system memory as you need it. There's no setting because it's automatic.