Re: Tecra A11-10D video memory

Hello all,
I have a Tecra A11-10D and in windows it show's that my graphics card is using 1200MB of RAM as shared video memory. I do not need so much memory for my graphics card, i think 256MB will suffice tacking in account that the onboard card has 64MB of dedicated video memory.
Now on all the computers i know that in bios there is an option to assign RAM to the video card but in the BIOS of my computer I see no such option. I think / hope that an updated bios will give me this option. On the download drivers section I see a new BIOS but I don't want to flash it until i see the BIOS update specifications.
Can any one point me to such a document?
Did anyone have this issue and solved it?
Thanx,
Dan.

Hello
As users already wrote the video memory usage is controlled automatically and you cannot change anything. I really don't understand why do you think new BIOS will have some additional options.
I am 100% sure with new BIOS you will not have any new options so if the system is running well dont change anything. BIOS update will be offered mostly to fix some unexpected issues or offer better support for notebooks hardware. It has nothing to do with additional options.
Maybe you are right about video RAM. I also think that every of us should be able to make decision how many memory will be used for video operations but obviously Intel engineers have different opinion about it.

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