How to change dedicated graphic memory?

[kutiq4life]

Hey guys. I'm using Asus A52J with a dedicated graphic memory of 1024. I was wondering how to change the dedicated graphic memory. I've been into the BiOS but still no luck. Where can I change it? Any clues?

 

[stormy13]

Which A52J? There is 4 different version of it; A52JB, A52JC, A52JK, A52Jr.

Dedicated usually means that the ram (also known as vram) is on the video card and as such cannot be changed, unlike if it was shared from system memory.

 

[kutiq4life]

owh i see. I wanted to lowered my dedicated graphic memory to 512 because my laptop lags when playing Grand Theft Auto 4 EFLC while on my brother's laptop it works fine. As far as i can see my laptop is more powerful than his.

 

[stormy13]

Comes back to which A52J is it, and which CPU does it have in it? This is from one of them,

Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 540M/520M/450M/430M : 2.53 GHz - 2.26 GHz, with Turbo Boost up to 3.06/2.93/2.66/2.53 GHz;
Intel® Core™ i3 Processor 370M/350M/330M : 2.4 GHz - 2.13 GHz,
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor P6000 : 1.86 GHz

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

From what I know of that game is that it doesn't want to run well on the best of systems, and the last thing you want to be doing is lowering anything. What settings are you running it at?

 

[Luckystar]

owh i see. I wanted to lowered my dedicated graphic memory to 512 because my laptop lags when playing Grand Theft Auto 4 EFLC while on my brother's laptop it works fine. As far as i can see my laptop is more powerful than his.

Could you fill in your laptop specs Here please

Don't forget, that is a very heavy game, even on lowest settings

512mb is not enough for the game, even with a gig of vram.

Lucky

 

[kutiq4life]

I dont know which type because it only stated A52J.But this is my spec:

Core i3 2.27 GHz
ATI HD 5145 1GB
2GB DDR3 ram
Windows Home Premium

I ran the game on the lowest settings but still it lags. On my brother's laptop on the other hand ran smoothly on low settings.

 

[Luckystar]

I dont know which type because it only stated A52J.But this is my spec:

Core i3 2.27 GHz
ATI HD 5145 1GB
2GB DDR3 ram
Windows Home Premium

I ran the game on the lowest settings but still it lags. On my brother's laptop on the other hand ran smoothly on low settings.

Ok, first, you have 2gb of ram, why did you ask about adding more ram to 512mb.

secondly, from what i can tell, that is not the best of cards to be playing the game on.

Thirdly, even the processor may cause issues as the i3 is not intended for games.

Is your brothers laptop the exact same as yours and spec.

Lucky

 

[kutiq4life]

I didn't meant to add ram but to reduce my dedicated graphic memory from 1024 to 512.

Nope, my brother's laptop is acer studio 1435, 3GB DDR2, ATI Radeon HD3450, Intel Core2 Duo 2.00 GHz. And his laptop only use 256mb Dedicated Graphic Memory.

 

[Luckystar]

Ok, I was mistaken. But why lower dedicated vram, you'll want as much vram as possible. But again, like i said that graphics card is just not aimed at gaming.

I can see why your brothers laptop will run, because it has a Core 2 Duo 2.00ghz, the graphics are aimed at gaming even though it wont do higher settings on most of today's games.

I'm afraid you will need to spend some money and upgrade that laptop or take the intiative and buy a desktop PC and for the money an 'OK' laptop will buy, you can have quite a decent PC and still have your laptop for all other things.

Those are the breaks I am afraid.

If anyone has better ideas than me, then please post, otherwise, thats all i have on the matter.

Lucky

 

[kutiq4life]

Those are the odds then. I just bought this laptop actually 4 days ago and I thought that this laptop is powerful because of the specs. But then I was wrong. I hope this laptop could do well on other games, I hope.

 

[Thorsen]

Are you lagging everywhere? or just at certain points?
have you installed the latest patch for the game?
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/80517-gta-4-problem-2.html#post720856
Rockstar Games - Help

I Also found that setting the draw distance up allows more things to be put into ram and if the draw distance is to low, you will get lag when going out into open areas as all the objects are trying to be drawn at once.

 

[kutiq4life]

In closed spaces i'm doing fine. But I'll give it a try. GTA 4 EFLC patch starts from what number?

 

[Thorsen]

1.0.6.0 is latest patch, but downloading the patch is cumulative, so it includes all patch updates. I was suffering from lag with a nice machine as well and installing patch resolved this issue. I also still lagged a little in open areas, and by playing with the draw distance (about medium) and increasing ram usage for draw distance (most of the Ram used) I was able to get lag free play.

My system is a gaming machine, but I dont see why yours wouldn't handle it. I have C2Duo and nVidia graphics, but its not the uber-computer (yet).....

 

[kutiq4life]

can u please tell me where u download the patch?

 

[kutiq4life]

and is it for Grand Theft Auto Episodes From liberty City???

 

[Thorsen]

Oh sorry I posted it, but I guess they moved it. The link no longer takes you to patch.
It is on their site. I cant look right now, but if you cant find, I will look when I can and post it.

 

[Luckystar]

Just jumping back in here,

Kutiq4life - I think you may already have the latest patch.

When did you start the game up for the first time, if it was in the last 3 months then you will have the latest patch as GTA EFLC will not let you play online without it or let you save your game.

Lucky

 

[Faladu]

You don't lower your video card memory .
That is what you are stuck with when you buy a laptop, unless that laptop has a video card you can swap out, doubtful, but possible.

I'd suggest investing in a tweaking suite like BoostSpeed or TuneUp Utilities to help get your laptop running the best it can, you probably have lots of services running in the background for one thing that are wasting CPU resources. WinPatrol is another good tool you might try, and it's free to use.
See softpedia.com or tucows.com or other reputable download site.

2 gigs of RAM is also the bare minimum for Windows 7 to run IMO, I have a 1 gig old PC and it was ridiculous with Windows 7, so I know first hand, upgraded it to 2 gigs and it's serviceable as emergency 3rd PC.

Laptops are typically not good gamer machines, unless you spend a lot 'O money and even then they can't hold a candle to desktops, just nature of the beasts, and one reason consoles are so popular.

Your laptop is still good on casual games, just not hardcore 3-D gaming.

Your ignorance bit you this time, investigate deeper, next go around, and you will be much happier.

Just because you just bought a computer doesn't mean anything, they vary greatly and it's very unfair to
the ignorant, but you have to ask the right questions to make much headway which is problem itself when you have no idea what you should want.

This is more like it for a gaming laptop: Newegg.com - TOSHIBA Qosmio X505-Q880 NoteBook Intel Core i7 720QM(1.60GHz) 18.4" 6GB Memory DDR3 1066 500GB HDD + 64GB SSD HDD BD Combo NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

 

[silentcer88]

anyone pls help me!!!!!

hi all..

im new here..i just need 1 help..

i already bought a new asus A52J..

the processor is i5-450M..

i already deleted the intel control center..

can anyone help me??

how 2 download the software back..

i search all the intel but i just found the intel desktop control center..
im using a notebook not a desktop..


pls help me

 

[silentcer88]

hi

anyone pls help me!!!!!
hi all..

im new here..i just need 1 help..

i already bought a new asus A52J..

the processor is i5-450M..

i already deleted the intel control center..

can anyone help me??

how 2 download the software back..

i search all the intel but i just found the intel desktop control center..
im using a notebook not a desktop..


pls help me