icrease my vidoe ram
 

hii
i have vidoe card Geforce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i/PCI/SSE2
which is in card
so it has no vidoe ram and it takes 80 me from the main ram
the question is how to increase this vidoe ram because the games
are very slow loke flight gear.
thanks.

If the card is using main-board ram, this usually means it does not have a private ram cache.
There is usually a drivec option to increase the amount of mainboard ram that can be reserved for video.

Always assuming, of course, that you have HW 3D enabled. The default is to use the free-software drivers which, for nvidia, do not support HW acceleration. Did you install the proprietary driver?

yes i installed proprietary driver
but from where i can increas video ram
i tried from bios befor but it did't work

Does bios have an option to increase video ram? What did you try? What happened? How do you know "it didn't work"? Do you mean that video ram was not increased or that your graphics issues were not solved?

You have to be pretty exact - just pretend I am on the other side of the world and cannot look at what you are doing.

Cool

How did you install the driver? - There are many ways: I was not watching remember.
How did you configure the driver? (Nvidia provides a tool for this: nvidia-xconfig)
Have you enabled 3D acceleration? - eg. can you see the 3D desktop effects?

glxinfo | grep render

Which distribution are you using?

yes
i tried form the bios form Vidoe ram share

i installed the driver normal installation i downloaded it from nvidia website and built it on my linux
and i can see 3d Desktop effects
i have compiz-fusion and Cairo-dock


slackware

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yes
i tried form the bios form Vidoe ram share

i installed the driver normal installation i downloaded it from nvidia website and built it on my linux
and i can see 3d Desktop effects
i have compiz-fusion and Cairo-dock


slackware

what did you try?
Good - but what did you do?
I cannot see it - you have to tell me and all bioses are different.

You found the bios page which has options to change the amount of shared video ram.
The option are usually a list of max video ram amounts, but it could just be "enable/disable" or something else - what was it? Which one did you pick?

You highlighted the option and hit enter/space or whatever to make the change.
Did the bios pace recognise the change, or did the setting remain unchanged dispite this?

You exited the bios selecting the "save and exit" option. When you return to the bios, the change is still there - or not?

You also left some important questions unanswered.

When you say "it didn't work", do you mean that video ram was not increased or that your graphics issues were not solved?

How did you configure the driver? (Nvidia provides a tool for this: nvidia-xconfig - did you use it?)

The thing is, you may already be using the maximum shared memory the card can manage.
Check your video memory:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-f...ideo-card-ram/

Your card's capabilities in linux:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=771&num=1
... phoronix say: not for video games.

The path to improved performance is to tweak the driver with the nvidia config tool. Some people also try overclocking. Some bioses limit vram to a percentage of main ram (to the limit supported by the card). Check you bios and board manuals.

thanks man
you helped me alot
i will be try to be clear next time