G965 x3000 384mb not possible

[andrewabc]

I had 1gb ram and could only choose 128mb or 256mb for onboard video. I am using 14.33.1 drivers. I use windows XP and dual boot with ubuntu.
Today I added 2gb of ram, so I now have 3gb of ram. But I still only have option of 128mb and 256 mb ram. I have tried several combinations of options in the BIOS to try and get 384. But it is never a possible option.
I have seen others on this forum ask this question, and the resonse is that you need 1gb ram and xp, or 1.5 gb ram for vista toget 384mb onboard video ram. I have been looking for the past year a solution.

Any help?

[davidc1]

andrewabc:

I had 1gb ram and could only choose 128mb or 256mb for onboard video. I am using 14.33.1 drivers. I use windows XP and dual boot with ubuntu.
Today I added 2gb of ram, so I now have 3gb of ram. But I still only have option of 128mb and 256 mb ram. I have tried several combinations of options in the BIOS to try and get 384. But it is never a possible option.
I have seen others on this forum ask this question, and the resonse is that you need 1gb ram and xp, or 1.5 gb ram for vista toget 384mb onboard video ram. I have been looking for the past year a solution.

Any help?

You are having absolutely no problem at all. It's just you don't know everything about what's going on. You can adjust up to 256MB video ram but beyond that its out of user control.

Intel IGPs have long used what they call Dynamic Video Memory Technology(DVMT). Essentially, memory bandwidth and capacity needed by the graphics processor is dynamically allocated depending on application so the performance in non-3D intense apps like video decoding, zipping files, etc don't suffer.. The 384MB is the MAXIMUM DVMT memory. Your best performance option is just to set something like Maximum DVMT.

I believe depending on the motherboard vendor, you can have options for "Max DVMT", "Fixed xx MB", "Fixed+DVMT MB" and things like that. In most cases, Max DVMT is the best case.

[andrewabc]

Ok. here is an image of my options in BIOS for this.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4190/dsc00310gk9.jpg

Options are
1. onchip VGA OR PEG port OR Auto
2. 1 OR 8
3. Fixed OR DVMT
4. Auto OR Manual
5. 128 OR 256


From what I gathered there was a setting somewheres to put it to 384. When I am windows different programs say 256 memory is the size of it.
Such as Intel info
Physical Memory: 3046 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 256 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 13 MB

So it will use up to 384 memory even though it only says 256?

[davidc1]

I see. You do have a problem.

1. This means whether you want to boot from onchip VGA, PCI Express Graphics(PEG) video card, or make it do auto. Just set it to auto, has nothing to do with performance settings

2. This is the MINIMUM amount of video that must be allocated for the IGP in order to do basic operations for 2D and stuff. This is the real "fixed" memory portion, and the size you set is the size that will never gobelow. I think 4 or 8 is okay, 1 might be a bit too low. Again, nothing too critical

3. This is whether you want to set it to DVMT or do a fixed allocation. Leave it to DVMT

4. Have you tried all the options?? I think Auto will be the best option.

Here's what I understand about #4. If you set it to manual, you can adjust the amount of memory, whether dynamic or fixed. If you set #3 to DVMT, and #4 to Manual with #5 on 128MB, it means up to 128MB will be allocated dynamically. I think Auto will be the option that will let you go up to 384MB. It doesn't make complete sense, but that's the only logical way.

Also make sure you got the drivers installed correctly(by checking the versions on the Intel graphics tray info).

Please respond back with your results :).