Windows 7 64 bit cuts video ram in two

Well, i just bought the new Imac 21.5 I configured it with and 2.8 i7 prosessor, and 8 gb ram. It came with a 6770 512 mb video card. I am very satisfied with the imac
but i installed windwos 7 64bit trough bootcamp, and if i type in dxdiag in the serch box it only says that the videocard is 229 mb of vram. And its confusing
since the only reason i bought THIS imac was so i could play game at a fair level of graphics. Any ideas people? I do have the newest driver and so forth.
But those are the drivers that apple provided with a link, i do not have any other driver directly from amd if that matters...
Cheers from cold Norway.....

Catalyst 11.11
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx
The iMac may be treated as mobile grapics
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx
The trouble is usually installing though the last 11.10 beta seemed to be less trouble and possible.
Installing driver on iMac w/ 6970M
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3363082
As for the amount of vram, I have 1GB on mine but the output shows 3825MB (the way vram and system memory are used). Also have 8GB RAM.

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Hey guys,
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