macprodan Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 x300 card here just for osx. lol can i get osx to use total vram its only using 32Mb im sure that hits performance..? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 this is so strange, i see others with all sorts of ATi cards getting VRAM totals that look right for the card. how come i am only reporting. 32mb. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-73959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 Bump, been searching for ages and still no answer.. can anyone help me or provide any info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-74138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 still trying to figure out why my x300 showing as 32mb and not 128 mb anyone figure anything out via this ioreg -l gonna do a quick check in XP to see if my total ram goes down with the x300.. if it does looking like a Hypermemory X300 ( Ati card that uses system ram to cut down on costs..) +-o IOPCI2PCIBridge <class IOPCI2PCIBridge, !registered, !matched,$ | | | | { | | | | "Power Management protected data" = "{ theNumberOfPowerStates$ | | | | "Bridge Memory Ranges" = (18446744073666560000,18446744073667$ | | | | "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily" | | | | "IOClass" = "IOPCI2PCIBridge" | | | | "IONameMatched" = "pci-bridge" | | | | "IOProbeScore" = 18446744073709551516 | | | | "Power Management private data" = "{ this object = 03130700, $ | | | | "IOMatchCategory" = "IODefaultMatchCategory" | | | | "IONameMatch" = "pci-bridge" | | | | "Bridge IO Ranges" = (32768,35839,36096,36863) | | | | "IOProviderClass" = "IOPCIDevice" | | | | } | | | | | | | +-o display@0 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, b$ | | | | | { | | | | | "AAPL,gray-page" = <01000000> | | | | | "IODeviceMemory" = (({"address"=18446744073608888320,"lengt$ | | | | | "device-id" = <"`["> | | | | | "IOChildIndex" = 1 | | | | | "name" = "display" | | | | | "AAPL,RegEntryID" = <00f01203ff0fedfc656d69537a6c7552> | | | | | "AAPL,ndrv-dev" = Yes | | | | | "AAPL,gray-value" = <c38c6400> | | | | | "IOName" = "display" | | | | | "vendor-id" = <02100000> | | | | | "revision-id" = <00000000> | | | | | "IOPMIsPowerManaged" = Yes | | | | | "subsystem-vendor-id" = <02100000> | | | | | "IOInterruptControllers" = ("io-apic-0") | | | | | "Power Management private data" = "{ this object = 0312f000$ | | | | | "Power Management protected data" = "{ theNumberOfPowerStat$ | | | | | "IOPCIExpressLinkStatus" = 4353 | | | | | "IOHibernateState" = <00000000> | | | | | "class-code" = <00000300> | | | | | "display-connect-flags" = <00000000> | | | | | "compatible" = <"pci1002,602","pci1002,5b60","pciclass,0300$ | | | | | "AAPL,iokit-ndrv" = <60ddfc2f> | | | | | "subsystem-id" = <02060000> | | | | | "assigned-addresses" = <1000054300000000000000fa00000000000$ | | | | | "reg" = <00000500> | | | | | "IOInterruptSpecifiers" = (<1200000007000000>) | | | | | } | | | | | | | | | +-o .Display_boot <class IONDRVFramebuffer, registered, matche$ | | | | | | { | | | | | | "IOAccelIndex" = 0 | | | | | | "IOMatchCategory" = "IOFramebuffer" | | | | | | "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport" | | | | | | "IOFBTransform" = 0 | | | | | | "IOFBCursorInfo" = () | | | | | | "IONameMatched" = "display" | | | | | | "IOFBMemorySize" = 33554432 | | | | | | "IOFBWaitCursorFrames" = 15 | | | | | | "IODisplayParameters" = "IOFramebufferParameterHandler is$ | | | | | | "IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable" | | | | | | "IOProbeScore" = 20000 | | | | | | "IOFramebufferOpenGLIndex" = 0 | | | | | | "IOFBConfig" = {"IOFB0Hz"=Yes,"IOFBModes"=({"ID"=100,"DF"$ | | | | | | "IOClass" = "IONDRVFramebuffer" | | | | | | "IOProviderClass" = "IOPCIDevice" | | | | | | "Power Management private data" = "{ this object = 0319c4$ | | | | | | "IOFBGammaHeaderSize" = 12 | | | | | | "Power Management protected data" = "{ theNumberOfPowerSt$ | | | | | | "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904$ | | | | | | "graphic-options" = 0 | | | | | | "IONDRVFramebufferGeneration" = <0200000002000000> | | | | | | "IOFBGammaCount" = 256 | | | | | | "IOFBWaitCursorPeriod" = 33333333 | | | | | | "IOAccelRevision" = 2 | | | | | | "IOFBGammaWidth" = 8 | | | | | | "IOAccelTypes" = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0$ | | | | | | "IONameMatch" = "display" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-76431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I guess Mac OSX86 doesnt let ur ATI x300 share memory OR as with intel card's RAM is dynamically allocated as VRAM, depending on usage. Maybe ur Bios has a VRAM shadow option or option to select how much RAM can be used as VRAM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-77342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 ill look into that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-77355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 no nothing like that in the bios... and to think i sold my X800XL PCI-E to get this 7800GT as my X800 was not working with OSX i thought what the hell sold the X800XL and got a 7800 given to me Free Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11725-vram-on-atis/#findComment-77378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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