"assumed" graphic card memory

Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger at gmx.at
Fri Jul 14 05:06:20 CDT 2006


Am Donnerstag 13 Juli 2006 22:07 schrieb Frank Richter:
> I think the article exaggerates. (a) it refers to one driver which
> exhibits the problem - Matrox G400 GL, on Win32. Linux drivers may
> actually all properly support that function. (b) you could use a cap -
> e.g. never report more than 50% of the total system ram as VRAM. Or use
> that as a threshold for a heuristic - if more than that amount of
> textures are reported as "resident", assume the logic is broken.
I tried the sample program on my Linux box (radeon M9, 64 mb vram) and I don't 
think that it reported correct values. It said 32 mb textures, not all 
resident. While I have a 1400x1050 resolution I don't think it eats 32 mb 
vidmem.
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