Intel HD 3000 ram amount

[xraycat87]

Hi, I didnt know if this would be in laptops, cpu or graphics card section.

I have i5 2430M on my laptop with built in gpu. The dedicated RAM is 64mb but goes upto 1.6GB.

I'm playing GW2 quite a lot and wouldnt mind being able to have the textures on etc, but I cannot find how/if I can increase the amount of ram it can tap into.

No options in the bios for it either..and I cant find any software installed when I bought the laptop to turn on turbo speed for 24/7 use.

Any ideas?

 

[Orcvader]

So in BIOS you can increase the dedicated RAM to 1.6gb? That should be more than enough for a laptop.

 

[xraycat87]

Naa just when I go into device manager then display adapter, it says that. But I can't change the amount..

 

[Marky]

As far as I know it alters dependant on the situation automatically... but I may be wrong.

It's not the RAM that increases, it's the CPU frequency.

 

[MagicBoy]

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-029090.htm

 

[Marky]

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-029090.htm

Ah ha! So it is RAM like he said, but it uses some of the system RAM for graphics power! Today I learnt

 

[MagicBoy]

Ah ha! So it is RAM like he said, but it uses some of the system RAM for graphics power! Today I learnt

Yeah, it's integrated graphics. It steals system memory to use as the framebuffer. A discrete graphics card would have it's own dedicated RAM.

 

[xraycat87]

So really... I cant improve anything?

 

[Orcvader]

Probably not if it's like that. There's only so much a HD 3000 can do anyway, it's not really a gaming GPU. I don't think it even properly meets the minimum requirement for GW2...