Re: Video Card..

What does your system say? Control Panel, System, General tab. Computer.

Robert Barnett wrote:
> Interesting as on my XP and my Vista system both with 4GB of Ram and two

> ATI Radeon 1650 Pro cards each with 512MB Windows re****ts only the 
> system memory and not the video ram. I know some laptop computers use 
> system memory for video memory but I have never seen a desktop system do

> this. How do you know that .25GB is the video ram and just part of the
4GB?
> 
> 
> "JD" <JD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Robert Barnett wrote:
>>> If I am not mistaken the video ram is not calculated as part of the 
>>> system ram. As for memory on the a video card I would suggest 512MB. 
>>> Based on things I have seen hinted at by Adobe people the next 
>>> version of Photoshop is going to make very good use of GPU and memory.
>>
>> I was told a 32 bit operating system like Windows XP only has 4GB of 
>> memory address space.
>>
>> On the new XP system, I installed 4GB of dual layer ram and a video 
>> card with 256 MB of ram. Under System Properties, it recognizes 3.25GB 
>> of ram.
>>
>> I have not had a chance to play with PS on the new XP system since I 
>> had some problems with the original motherboard.
>>
>> -- 
>>  JD.. 
> 

-- 
  JD..