changing graphics ram on a satellite 2410 notebook

[scottc]

hi everyone i have a toshiba satellite 2410 notebook and at the moment it has a setting of 16mb for the graphics card that i guess is intergreated into the mother board how can i increase this setting i have 512 of ram to play with.

advice badly needed

regards scott.

[renegade600]

the setting should be in your bios.

[scottc]

i can get into bios but not sure what to change can you help

regards scott.

[smurfy]

Hi scottc, welcome to CyberTechHelp.
There are several variations of that model of laptop sold around the world but I believe the Autralasian version (and probably most of the others) are sold with nVidia GeForce 4 420Go Video which has it's own dedicated 16Mb memory, it's not shared RAM which means that's it, there is no more you can allocate to it.
That said, that is a pretty decent mobile graphics chip for a 2yr old Laptop, even with only 16Mb memory. I assume you're having (gaming) issues.
Have you got the latest nVidia drivers installed?

[scottc]

thanks smurfy that would make sence. i run a simulator called Reflex XTR it's a sim for flying radio control aircraft it helps in learning to fly i'm into helicopters and they are bloody hard to fly.

it runs ok, but i guess it could run better.
a pc guy suggested changing the graphics ram in the bios.

not to worry. and yes i did update to the latest drivers.

again many thanks for your help

regards scott

[smurfy]

Wow, i have seen that before somewhere.
I suppose it saves wrecking your model while learning huh?

The Min SysReq does say 32Mb AGP video - so you're lucky it runs at all. I suppose there's very little of the eye candy you can turn off either (considering all you want is an accurate flight "model" not picture-postcard terrain).
:)