I have no dedicated VRAM

I recently installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp. I have looked up my system performance while running Windows and I have 0 dedicated VRAM. I have been trying to play games using Boot Camp, but with 0 dedicated VRAM, I am unable to. I was wondering if when I set up Windows 7 or am partitioning the disks if I need to do anything specific to increase my VRAM. My laptop's information is as follows:
MacBook Pro
15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009
Processor 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

Because there is no dedicated VRAM. VRAM is shared from the main memory. Windows doesn't know what is going on in the Apple hardware. It's a defect of Windows, and Apple's drivers apparently report only what Windows expects.
If Windows works for you then obviously it has VRAM, just not a GPU with dedicated VRAM.

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I've learned by reading other topics that I can't upgrade my graphics card on my Macbook Pro because it's soldered into the motherboard or somthing like that, but please tell me if there is any way to get more video ram by chaning some setting or upgrading something else. I'd also like to know why I only have 256MB of VRAM when I have 8GB of RAM, since I have 8GB of RAM I thought I was supposed to have 560mb of VRAM...
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Is there any way to upgrade my VRAM, so that I can play games on steam?
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I'm confused about something.
The MacBook used integrated graphics with 64 MB of SHARED video memory, correct?
But when I read the footnote, it says that a MINIMUM of 80 MB of system memory is allocuted.
So, does that mean that the chipset has 64 MB of VRAM, as in 64 MB of DEDICATED video memory, and then it can allocute the other 16-160 (224 MB max memory available) as needed?
Or am I way off. Please let me know.
Plus, I read that ANY amount of dedicated VRAM, even as little as 8 MB, is "better" than any amount of integrated graphics. Is there any validity to that statement (I suppose it has something to do with the type of applications using the memory as well, as in 2-D v. 3-D rendering)?

So you're saying that the MacBook has NO dedicated VRAM whatsoever?
And that it IS better to have dedicated that integrated, even if the former is of lower capacity?
What kind of applications would make having an integrated card usefull? Or, where would I not see any obvious performance hits. Please see one of my old posts in the USING YOUR MACBOOK forum, "Please help this ol' PC User" for a complete list of things I want a notebook computer for.
Oh, one more thing. 2 GB of ram should take care of any speed issues, right? The limitations of the GMA 950 only show themselves with 3-D apps, correct?
Thank you for the reply! I'm very ignorant on the whole subject of VRAM, and a MacBook will be my first Mac purchase.

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Hi, back in the days I wanted a 12" iBook but couldn't afford one, last autumn thought I decided to get a Macbook Pro, the update came and...
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I want to use dual screen and maybe even occasional gaming, I couldn't decide if this where sufficient for my needs or not so I waited for the june update.
The mid-07 MBP arrived and, it had 128MB vram AGAIN!
Why oh why Apple? Oh, don't answer that, it's because you're in bed with Intel and want to force feed us useless highest end CPUs. But all I care for is the VRAM, why do I have to pay a ****-of-a-lot for a 1/11th faster CPU?
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I know I can turn of the sleeping capabilities of the MBP and shut the lid and only use one screen but that's a quite lame solution.
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256MB vram can't have cost them many tens of dollars, why not have that in all modells? Why is the middle one even needed? Just make 2.4GHz CPU and option in that case.
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I've called Apple support three times but noone of them knows how this works so they aren't for much help.
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I'm pretty sure the total VRAM isn't divided in half for each of the two displays though, as it will be allocated from the video driver on an as-needed basis. In practice, with both displays active and a few windows open, you should still have maybe 80-90% of your VRAM available for applications.
Games and other VRAM-heavy applications are a special case as these will typically use as much VRAM as you can give them, and swap out to system RAM via the PCI-X bus when they need more (and unlike swapping to disk, swapping into VRAM from system RAM is still pretty fast).

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