Amouth of memory allocated to video card

Sorry for any misspellings....but I am looking into a game. The guy says I need 128mb of memory for my video card to play the game right. How much does my MacBook 1.83 1GB provide?

I may be wrong, but I'm sure I've read on here somewhere that the MB will steal more memory than the stated 64MB if required, as long as it doesn't detriment the application being run at the time.
Try having a look at earlier threads concerning MB video capabilities, or gaming on the MB, its definately there somewhere.
Further to this thread, I'm running Halo:combat evolved on my 1.83mhz macbook with the stock 512MB memory, considering it's running in the 'Rosetta' PowerPC emulation environment it seems to run fine with all details turned to 'low' or 'off', and running in the 800 x 600 screen. I've installed the latest patch for Halo from 'macsoft', and I play my mates online, no problem!
I've also seen video clips posted on the MB discussion forums of 'Call of duty 2' (universal) running perfectly well.

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HP Pavilion DV2716ca - Reduce the amout of RAM allocated for video card

Hello,
Is there a way to reduce the amout of RAM allocated for video card?I don't play games so only 16-32Mb should be more than enough
I have 4Gb of RAM and only 2.99 are available. I know that for a 32bit OS only 3.4-3.6Gb are available.
Thanks,
Adrian

Hi @adrian_d ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion dv2716ca Entertainment Notebook and wanted to reduce the amount of Ram allocated to your video card. I do not recommend this as this could cause overheating or overworking the card. Here is a link that might help with performance issues.
Hope this helps.
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Memory Allocation? Video rendering help...

Right now I'm using Quicktime 7.6.6 on my MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I'm transcoding HD Prores 422 video to H.264. Usually, this process will take about twice the length of the video (for the double pass) if not shorter. For some reason, today this process is taking forever. I've quit all other applications, and it is still going to take about an hour to transcode a 2 minute video.
I went and I looked at my activity monitor. Under "System Memory," it is telling me that QTPlayerHelper (quicktime's encoder) is using around 155% of my CPU (is that even possible?), 365.2 MB of Real Memory, and 450.5 MB of Virtual Memory. I'm running on 4 GB of memory. Activity Monitor is telling me I have 1.79 GB of free memory with 2.2 GB used. Shouldn't QT be using some of that memory? Why did I pay for all that extra memory if everything is going slow and none of it is being used? Does it have something to do with the CPU usage? What is my computer doing?

Not intending to make a big deal out of this ... however, it's not crazy, and it is true.
• OS X (and your apps) need RAM +and disk space+ in order to operate. It's called system cache and OS X uses it nearly all the time. This is a totally separate need from whatever space is required by your data (eg. your video files).
• As you fill up a hard drive, performance degrades; it happens gradually, and is not always noticeable, but it goes on constantly. It is the simple result of the physics of hard drives. A drive is measurably less responsive once it reaches 50% full (and by the time a 500GB OS X +system HD+ is 90% full you are not only going to see inexplicable gremlins but you are quickly approaching a system crash because there's not enough space left for OS X itself to run properly).
• Video performance is especially sensitive to the resources available in your system, notably the responsiveness of your hard drive ...
A 500GB drive is not all that big by today's standards, especially if you are doing video.

Cnet review says imac has SHARED memory on the video card! Is this correct?

I was sure the imac had dedicated memory but:
http://reviews.cnet.com/AppleBoot_Camp_beta/4505-36727-31826794-2.html?tag=nav
Is this reviewer correct?
I would have bet my life this wasn't true but he really seems to make a point of it in the banchmark notes.
Kal

I don't know who started this rumour but it's spreading.
Those well known Apple lovers at GameSpot have produced an article about Boot Camp and running XP on an iMac.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6147437/index.html
It's not a bad article but has the following statement:
"The release of Boot Camp doesn't change our opinion of the iMac as a gaming system. No matter which OS you run, its weak ATI Radeon X1600 graphics chip, which shares memory with the system itself, isn't going to deliver high frame rates"
Oops! A bogus opinion fed by incorrect information.
Needless to say I put them right in their forum here:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/showmsgs.php?topicid=24517331

PS CS5 claims my video cards have zero memory, no GPU access!

Hi folks
Firsrt post here. I hope some one can assist as I have been dealing with this issue for few days now. My hard drive died last week...had to reinstall everything. Now, for some reason Photoshop refuses to enable OpenGL access even though before I was able to use Photoshop with same video cards. I have reinstalled the app multiple times, reset prefs many times, installed various versions of my video card drivers (right now I am on the latest drive). I checked Adobe and NVidia sites and my cards are listed as supported. I checked Device driver (shows cards installed ok) and Windows sees my cards and I check Direct X diagnostics and it sees my cards memories.
Here are my specs:
Windows Vista 32
2 x NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX (have a 512 memory each, not running SLI)
4 Gigs of RAM
2 x 500 Gig WD drives
Wacom Cintiq as second display
I know my OpenGL works because I am able to run Modo fine. I checked in Device Manager and all seems ok.
Here is the top part of what Photoshop shows in Systems Information:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0 (12.0x20100407
[20100407.r.1103 2010/04/07:14:00:00 cutoff; r
branch]) x32
Operating System: Windows Vista 32-bit
Version: 6.0 Service Pack 2
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7,
Stepping:6 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2,
SSE3, SSE4.1
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 2793 MHz
Built-in memory: 2046 MB
Free memory: 652 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1643 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
Display: 2
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: -1600, bottom: 1200,
right: 0
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200,
right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Driver Version: 8.17.12.7061
Driver Date: 20110408051400.000000-000
Video Card Driver:
nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Video Card Memory: 0 MB
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Driver Version: 8.17.12.7061
Driver Date: 20110408051400.000000-000
Video Card Driver:
nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Video Card Memory: 0 MB
Serial number: Tryout Version
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Photoshop CS5\
Temporary file path:
C:\Users\Arash\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 931.5G, 825.0G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
Again, the only thing I notice is zero memory for my cards which seems odd.
I greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks

Update the video card driver, and if that doesn't work - talk to NVIdia.
We can only go by the values returned by the video card driver.

X58 PRO won't boot (memory or video card issue???)

Hi all,
this is my first message here.
I have recently bought a X58 PRO motherboard to which I have connected the following devices: one HD, one DVD, the CPU (i7 950), one Video Card (GeForce 6600 pci-express) and three DDR3 modules from Corsair (named CMT6GX3M3A2000C8). According to Corsair website the modules CMT6GX3M3A2000C8 run on thie X58 PRO.
I have turned on the system, but the screen remains black and the motherboard issues an intermittent buzz sound.
Besides:
The led close to the pci-express (where the video card is connected) is on.
The 5 CPU leds are all turned on.
The led close to the memory socket is off.
As far as I know, usually the intermittent buzz means that the motherboard doesn't recognize either the RAM or the video card, but I don't know if the buzz is different case by case (can be buzz be different according to the issue?) and in the manual I didn't find a troubleshotting chapter.
Is there a way which allow me to better identify where the issue would be (in memory or in Video Card... or something else)?
I have not tested neither the memory nor the video card on another system, thus I don't know if one of them is faulty.
Can anyone please help me?
many thanks in advance!
Lorenzo

Quote from: Bernhard on 27-April-11, 16:06:04
Do a CMOS clear>>Clear CMOS Guide<<
Only insert one mem module. Check all your power connections to the board/s again that they are secure. You may want to reseat your CPU and check carefully that all the contact pads on the CPU do have imprints.
Ok, I'll try it this evening!
In the meanwhile, I thank you.

ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card is conflicting with additional memory

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Genius needs to help! problems with my video card and system

Hey guys! I'm going to post my specs first so that you get a good idea of what I'm running on:
MSI Neo2 LS 865PE.....MAT=Slow
Pentium4 2.4C.....FSB=233=2.8C hyperthreading enabled ~>1.55V
Corsair TwinX 1gig PC3700.....memory on "AUTO" in BIOS with timings at 3,4,4,8 ~> 2.7V
Radeon 9700NP.....stock speeds ~>1.7V
AlienX case with 2 fan400 watt power supply and 6 case fans
Zalman Alum/Copper heatsink fan
1:I've had this motherboard for a few months now. I upgraded my video card from a nVidia Ti4200(128meg) to a Radeon 9800 a month ago, but I couldn't get it working at 8X AGP, no matter what voltages I threw at it. I returned it for a Radeon 9700NP hoping that it would work, but it still won't.
I'm using BIOS 1.9 and since there is no option to select your AGP speed, I could only try using ATI's drivers. Once booted into Windows, there is a slider you can move to select you AGP speed. On my machine It says that It has performed some tests and has concluded that AGP 4x is the best for my system....but my system supports AGP 8X!
I've moved the slider over to 8x (which requires a reboot) at least 5 times with each card but the slider refuses to move past 4xAGP after the reboot.
2: My second problem: I had an old stick of KingMax PC3200 and decided to buy 3 more sticks. Unfortunatly, the 3 I bought did not match the one I had, so I only put 2 of the new sticks I bought into my system. Immediatly, My system would crash, lock up, files were corrupt, and I got PLENTY of blue screens of death with a long message containing: 0x0000007 with all these other numbers and "0"s. I did a search online and found out I had a hardware incompatibility problem. I never got this with my old stick of ram.
I returned the 3 sticks of Ram and replaced them with the Corsair. Put my new Radeon 9700 in, formatted my hard drive....and within 24 hours, my system locked up 3 times, rebooted itself 5 times, and gave me the same BSOD as mentioned above with the same long message.
I didn't change anything except for the memory and the video card. I've been wanting to overclock, (thats why i bought the faster memory ) but I'm not sure what to do at this point.
I have my FSB at 233 but I'm scared to go any higher because of previous system instability at stock speeds. My RAM was running on 400 and MAT=Turbo with the most relaxed timings at 3,4,4,8.
I've given myself hours of sleepless nights formatting when my system wouldnt boot into windows; overclocking....etc. I NEED HELP. PLEASE. PLEASE. Anything could work at this point.
I'm trying to get more info on how to run my system at a 5:4 ratio, also.
If anyone has problems like me or knows what could be the problem with my system, please reply to this post, it would help me a lot. I've been trying to fix these problems for a few months now so anything is greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot to you guys that responded. I brought my computer home this past holiday and I want to let you know where I stand as of now. I guess this thread is like my blog for my computer. I want to clear some things before my first post makes everyone confused.
1- I have only 2 sticks of memory in my system: the Corsair PC3700 TwinX 512x2
I returned the 3 KingMax I bought, and still keep my old stick just in case.
2- I am using the 400 watt power supply that came with the case. I read some reviews of the case and I know the reviewer did not have problems with the power supply. In my BIOS, there are some voltages it is weak on. Lets say: it it should be 5.00+, my power supply will be feeding it 4.96v or something like that, but I dont know, or think, that is a major problem...
3- My computer will refuse to boot if memory speeds are set at anything below 400. SO....if I want to use a 5:4 ratio and have to set my memory speeds to "333" in BIOS, my system refuses to boot.
4- This morning, I did manage to overclock my FSB to 250. Specs are as follow:
Memory Timing @3,4,4,8,4.....speed set at "AUTO".....MAT at "SLOW"
MY 2.4C's FSB was raised to 250 = 3.0gig
AGP/PCI frequency: 67.xx/3x.xx (cant go any lower)
CPU voltage: 1.5500
Memory voltage: 2.75
Video Card voltage: 1.7
Everything was fine for the whole day until I heard something click in my computer around midnight, and then seconds later, my computer froze and made a continuous beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. (you can imagine)
This "click" and system crash has been plaguing me for months now. I dont know whay it happens. I was just using AIM when I heard the click and my heart stopped.
My memory speeds have been set to "AUTO" even at the FSB of 250. But I don't know if this still means my system is at a 1:1 ratio. I know the BIOS then adjusts the memory to work at 500 if my FSB is 250...so I assume it is? I love 3gig, but somehow I feel that 2.8 is faster, since the FSB=233 running parallel to my memory, also at 233
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MB 915/G Combo MS-7058 video card options or suggestions on the new market

First off my apologies. I wasn't sure which forum to place my question under,
Retired Motherboards or Video Cards.
Quick summary I'm looking to upgrade my video card on an older mother board and have run into problems with a new board working. I think the problem is a backwards compatibility issue. I need help with a list of what video cards I can buy that are available new preferably if not a list of where to go and what to watch for. I would like to increase the speed/ram. My skill level is around, open the case swap out the item and insert the disk. With a search forums and try to find the answer/follow directions or suggestions.
In more detail,
I'm looking to upgrade my video card from NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series NX-6600 256mb card on a an MSI 915P/G combo. The install/instruction manual lists under the above combo name MS-7058 (v1.X) ATX Motherboard and below the image of the board there is also the text of G52-M7058x1.
The video card option for placement is in the sole PCI Express X16 slot (no on motherboard graphics and/or connection options I know of) and I assuming from what I've tried researching that the PCI Express x1(mentioned elsewhere but all suggestions were cards no longer for sale) is some sort of standard of limit and my motherboard is too old despite newer cards fitting into the slot and claiming backwards compatibility to the "PCI Express or Pci Express 2.0".
Part of that possible assumption of my issue comes from the fact the mother board can have ether DDR1 or DDR2 ram for memory but a video card with DDR3 ram would not work. Also the software from the included disk and from the from the website install correctly for the card to function other than the basic windows drivers leaving the card unable to run any games. For reference the video card purchased and tried was a EVGA Geforce GT 610 SC9super clocked) with 2 GB of DDR3 Memory. Which i hopefully will have returned for a refund soon. I spent most of the day trying to install the software by their program , by launching from disk directly, from downloading the most current version from the manufacturer's website and checking with Microsoft for possible system change updates.
My original invoice August 2005 lists the pre order lists the Item VGMS-NX6600/256E then under description MSI NX6600-TD256E/PCIEX/256MB for the grand price of $169.00 deleviery receipt lists the card as item VGXM-X66DHEJTZ1 Description XMEDIA 6600 256MB PCIE DVI/TV
Power Supply 630 watts installed July 2008 I can not get the full listings of voltage and amps per connectors without taking the powers supply loose from the case(which requires shutting the system off, so I hoping I won't need to but will if the information will help). I do not feel power is an issue due to the size and the power supply was unneeded upgrade, that I just wanted to replace when swapping out a motherboards damaged from a lighting hit or power surge. System was running fine for years.
General system information
Windows XP professional SP3 All updates current.
Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
2.00 GB of Ram DDR 1
Videocard NVIDA 6600 Driver 6.14.12.9573
3 hard drives of varying sizes 500GB,1TB and 2TB Plus one external with external power supply 1.5TB drive
If more information is needed please let me know.
The best advice and help would be a list of currently for sale video cards that will work with links to places (and the actual model even better) like New Egg, or if there is such a card at the local Best Buy(outstanding advice on this non compatible/working card....I won't digress into my own mistake of buying there). I'm way out of date on information and standards about computers and hardware and need help figuring out what Video Cards to look at for purchasing. Preferably new, then re manufactured with warranty then used... The main game I play that strains my system but is playable is call of duty modern warfare 2 and would like to run 3 if possible. Although better rates with COD MW2 and COD 4 MW.

100% correct on the mother board
The card I had tried was EVGA---GeForce-GT-610 2GB DDR3 I can't post external links but it was from Best Buy. The box claimed requirements are that it needs PCI Express or PCI Express 2.0 compliant motherboards with one open graphic slot. The best I could get out of it was slightly working with Windows XP basic driver which no games would run. No selecting drivers helped from the Add Hardware program.
So I should make sure it lists "PCI Express X16" and " version 1 " "1MB(in reference to what part?)" or words to that effect? I was mislead by the box above for capability and "NVIDIA" on it, am I correct in assuming it was a generic whore knock off which bought the rights to stick NVIDIA name on the outside for a standard or software? Especially since the actual video card says EVGA and not NVIDIA on it.... I won't make that mistake hopefully again.
Due to age I was buying a cheap fill in card,(old one was working fine but I figured a good training/practice exercise and to see how much better the games looked to encourage me going forward on my first build) until I can start ordering and building to the current upgradeable standards. I'm trying to catch up on standards and not have a firewire or zipdrive experience. Although I might put a 5 1/4 disk drive in unused bay for show I would prefer not to buy another per-assembled option and decent computer part stores near me are lacking. Or I lack knowledge of their locations. If it matters I'm in Charlotte, NC USA
My budget is up to about $200 although I would like to stay around $100.00 (usa dollars) if possible. I think that gives me realistic options even with places like Best Buy. If I'm not, please correct me. I'm aware best Buy will give me a special 30-50% price increase but my local options for shops are hurting, the "best place for reputation" is a story of shame.

Photoshop CS6 (extended) Video card minimum requirements.

Can you tell me if my video card is adequate for using the 3D feature in CS6 Extended? The 3D tools don't seem to work. I get the message below. Do I need an updated video card or driver? Let me know if you need more information. Thank You.

The CS6 Minimum requirements are here. http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-photoshop.html
You need at least 512 MB of video ram to use 3D.
You go to Photoshop's Help Menu and select System Info. I copied and pasted my video card info and as you can see I don't have enough video ram for 3D and it's dimmed out. No driver update will help.
OpenGL Version: 2.1
Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
OpenGL Memory: 237 MB
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M OpenGL Engine

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Hi all
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My motherboard hated the Crucial Technology PC3200 512Mb memory (CT6464Z40B) I put in DIMM 1 and the MSI 5600U VTD-128 video card. Anyway suffice to say I solved the problems easily enough. I swapped the memory and the video card over with that in my MSI 645e Max U (the video card was a Connect 3D Radeon 7500 for info). The 645 runs beautifully with no problems whatsoever, unlike the 655!
I've now upgraded the Radeon 7500 to a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT which works really well. So if you are having problems with a card based on an nVidia chipset (which Win XP keeps saying has drivers that don't pass the compatability test) I'd try the ATI cards.
My main problem now is with the two Western Digital SATA drives I've got setup in a RAID 0 array.
Firstly I'm getting poor disk transfer rates (I used the SiSoftware Sandra utility to benchmark the file system, and got a really poor 23Mb/s). As an example Windows XP loads up in 1 minute 8 seconds from power on, unlike the 645 with a 80Gb Maxtor DiamondMax 9 which does it in 45 seconds - I was getting Windows up in 32 seconds after initial installation of XP!!! Now I know I've got PC2100 memory in this machine, but it seems to have got slower since I did a driver and Windows XP update (hope this isn't anything to do with the I've downloaded).
The second problem is a bit more serious, one of my Raptor drives keeps dropping off line when I run either the error checking or defragmentation tools in Windows. The computer shuts down and re-boots only to tell me there's been a problem (a drive has failed or disconnected) before asking for a boot floppy. Fortunately, if I delete then redefine the array I get the system up and running again, but it is annoying! Problem is, with the 655's reputation, I don't know whether I have a motherboard, cable or drive problem. A limited trouble shoot by swapping over the drives has ascertained which one the system alleges to keep failing, but I'm now stuck, short of trying new cables, or buying a SATA RAID controller and sticking it in the 645 to see if it is one of the drives that's at fault.
So any ideas on the drive situation?
Best regards

Apologies for being away for a while, been busy with work & sorting out a pair of bad Raptors drives! Thanks for the replies from Hellwolf_36 and simps.
I can now report that after I'd worked out that I'd got not one but two damaged 74Gb WD Raptor drive (one had a lot of bad sectors and the other would take over two hours instead of 20 minutes to format which is why I was getting that stop message) and I had replaced the memory with one stick of the Kingston KV400X64C25/512 DDR, my 655 is now working quite well. I haven't got round to checking if I've got the latest C-media driver installed though.
One thing I did do though was set up my Raptor drives as two independant arrays (C: & D:) rather than RAIDing them. This is because, I didn't want to stripe the drives just in case of another failure, plus I have more flexibility over storage space not mirroring the drives, unti lI can afford to by another hard drive or two. Anyway they're really fast in the first place.
For this motherboard I wouldn't bother with any other type of memory other than the KV400X64C25 as recommended on the MSI website, as it's quite fast and no hassle, (can't wait to get my second 512Mb so I can go back to dual channel!!) Only problem is that the price has gone up a little bit over the past couple of months.
So apart from this MoBo being particular about graphics cards and memory it's not too bad. My next challenges are too sort out the center/sub problem and network this baby.

Video Card VS Motherboard? Neo 848P

I just upgraded my video card from 256agp to 512agp. I go into the bios to change from 256 to 512 and the highest it goes is to 256. Is there a way to fix this or am I doing something wrong? or did I just waste my money?
Thanks,
Chris.
Neo 848P
OS Name   Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer   Microsoft Corporation
System Name   UTMACHINE
System Manufacturer   MICRO-STAR INC.
System Model   MS-6788
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~3042 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date   American Megatrends Inc. V2.0 on 07.00T, 10/12/2004
SMBIOS Version   2.3
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory   C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device   \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale   United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name   CHRISMACHINE\Chris H
Time Zone   Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory   1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory   601.64 MB
Total Virtual Memory   2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory   1.96 GB
Page File Space   2.41 GB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys

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I go into the bios to change from 256 to 512 and the highest it goes is to 256. Is there a way to fix this or am I doing something wrong?
You're looking at the 'AGP Aperture Size' setting, which has nothing to do with the amount of memory on your video card.
Have a look at this article: What is AGP Aperture size? from techpowerup.com
@Henry,
848P doesn't have any onboard VGA.

Video Card Memory Allocation Issue with SW:TOR

I am attempting to run SW:TOR on a duel-boot iMac running both iOS X Lion (10.7.2) and Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I have the game installed on the Windows 7 side, but because it is an iMac, my video card (ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB) is integrated.
The error I receive is of course general and non descriptive beyond "your computer does not meet the system requirements for the game" but all performance tests I have ran blow away all the minimum recommended requirements.
It looks like it is narrowed down to VRAM and the application is not seeing all of the 512 MB.
I've already updated all drivers, trying various combinations between Mac, MS, an Component OEM recommendations.
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Or, since I am in the Windows 7 side, would this question be more approptiatly placed on some Microsoft forum?

Quick time istalled on the Windows side? That got me up and running.
Good luck.

How can I tell what video card and how much video memory does my iMac have?

How or where can I find out: which video card does my iMac have and how much video memory does it have? I've tried looking in System profiler, but I did not see it there. Thank you.

Once you open System Profiler there should be a line called "memory" which is the RAM (vs. hard drive size which is not what is called memory), e.g., Memory: 1.5 GB
For video click on the line Graphics/Displays and look at the chipset line, e.g., Chipset Model: GeForce2 TwinView
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After Effects is NOT using the full Twelve GB of memory on my Mac Pro late 2013 dual video cards

I would like to know if there is a reason why AE CC12 and CC13 (2014) is not using the full amount of video card memory on my MP late 2013. It's six GB per freaking card I invested in and its not accessing it.
Is there a work around this issue?

Why shouldn't it. When I upgraded to this new Mac Pro late 2013 with its dual video cards. Premier turned into a blasting fast editor. I no longer need to render my edited cuts and the scrubbing of preview and timeline footage is phenomenal. The only performance boost I've seen in AE with this new system is in rendering and I can't even say its double as fast in comparison to Premier or Encoder and its an 8-Core system with 32GB of ram. Everything else is flying.
So again to answer your why should it. I rebuttal with "Why shouldn't it". The other two mentioned programs are using GPU resources to improve performance why is AE so behind the curve.
I'm not the only one asking why. I was in the audience at a Dmala meeting here in LA with Todd Kopriva and Al Mooney previewing AE and Premier 2014.
People kept asking Todd about performance boost in between questions about new features. Todd finally just asked what do you prefer a couple of new features or performance boost. Everyone wanted performance boost over new features. If you think I'm making this up go ask Todd Kopriva.

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