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496 meg of RAM ?
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: kuruptnz1 Thursday, August 17 2006 @ 12:40 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
I just noticed when i was trying to run a game that even tho i have 512 megs of RAM, XP displays 496 and thus many games won't run with a '512 meg minimum ram needed' error message. very frustrating! any ideas ?
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496 meg of RAM ? - kuruptnz1
i have bought more RAM, however that is kind of a redundant suggestion isn't it. I had 512 megs and windows was showing 496, that was my complaint. I was asking why that was, not for purchasing advice. but thanks, you've been a great help.Thursday, September 14 2006 @ 10:44 PM PDT
496 meg of RAM ? - taugust04
What model of Mac are you using? There is probably 16MB of RAM reserved for the integrated video controller on your Mac.The Mac Pro, $1199 and above iMac, and MacBook Pro all have separate video controllers from ATI or NVidia that have their own video memory. The $999 iMac, MacBook, and Mac Mini use the Intel GMA 950 integrated video chip set that steals away from your RAM.
Hope that helps. The other guy is right, the only fix is more RAM.
Thursday, September 14 2006 @ 09:32 PM PDT
496 meg of RAM ? - kuruptnz1
i have a 20" iMac, so the radeon certainly isn't stealing any of my main memory. its a moot point now, but thanks for the advice.Thursday, September 14 2006 @ 10:45 PM PDT
496 meg of RAM ? - A Nony Mouse
I found some games are overstating the amount of VRAM I have available. I'm currently playing Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault.. Great game, very cinematic and looks great- but the specs in game say I'm running at 768Mb Video RAM. Imagine that!! Anyway I updated my ATI graphics driver with the latest OMEGA drivers. Looking good!I have a MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 100GB HD, XPsp2 (32Gb partition- FAT32 formatted) the balance to OS X.
Friday, September 15 2006 @ 05:00 AM PDT
496 meg of RAM ? - JohnWBaxter
Hey i bought myself the 2.16 Ghz Macbook pro with 2 gigs of ram. I ran bootcamp and partitioned my disk to the 32gb FAT windows system. When i did this Medal of Honor Allied Assault setup tells me that it can't run because it is not a valid win32 program, what exactly does this mean and what can i do to get this running correctly again. Is it just that mohaa doesn't want to run on the fat32 or is there something else messed up there.Monday, November 06 2006 @ 03:03 PM PST
496 meg of RAM ? - johninsapporo
The solution is easy. Get more memory.John Davis
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