Clarification

[Gunny04]

ok..... I bought a graphics card as you know a 7300LE (POS I know) it said it was a 256 meg card when I bought... ok no problem I can live with it, when I installed it, it said 512MB ram...... now for the life of me, I dont think there is such a thing as a 7300LE 512MB card.... but my nvidia settings beg to differ, and riva tuner says 128 megs........ and when I installed SH3 it said 512 megs.... can somebody tell me of a sure way to find out what ammount of memory my crappy 7300LE has? oh yea, and it loves to overclock about 75mhz without artifacts..... Cheers, Gunny

[cheesegrater]

Rivatuner is usually accurate. You probably have a "RAM eater" card. It has 128MB onboard memory, but it will use 384MB of your system's RAM as video memory for a total of 512MB.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121026

By SH3 do you mean Silent Hunter 3? I patched the game to get rid of Starforce, but when I play the game the game tries to contact Safenet Inc!!! I uninstalled it. I hope Ubisoft will release a Starforce/Spyware free version.

[Gunny04]

no it doesnt eat my system ram.... because that registers as 1024MB..... I might check my bios and such, if this card does turn out to be a system eater, its gone.... (Rivatuner says it hasnt been tested on my display adapters as well) Cheers, Gunny

EDIT: Its a 128.... and it doesnt eat any of my system ram.... thanks for that info mate! Cheers!

[cheesegrater]

Well, your RAM will still be 1GB, however when you run FS9 or something the video card will use some of that RAM.

[Gunny04]

well I should have looked for this before I bought the card,  :( Thats twice I screwed myself  ;D lol Cheers, Gunny