Gypsy

Also nVidia card beta drivers for Vista(only drivers at the min)are capping
the max system ram the card can use.
It says so in the info for said beta drivers.
That will change when nVidia release non beta drivers.
In XP my 7300GT uses 125Mb of system ram.
"Brian C. Barnes" <bcbarnes@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:E00D79D5-3C3B-4DF5-8CCE-7D237CE6E74D@microsoft.com...
>I noticed when I installed the WDDM driver for my nVidia GeForce Fx Go 5200
> that the system allocates a very large amount of system memory for use as
> video memory (presumably as needed). I noticed that a few games that I
> like
> that can get 55 - 60 fps on XP get only around 7 or 8 FPS using this
> driver,
> and get 55 - 60 fps when using an older XP driver with Vista. My suspicion
> is
> that the game "thinks" it has lots of texture memory, and is trying to use
> it
> - and so Vista has to swap system memory with video memory to make it
> work,
> and everything gets slower. What I would like to do is tell vista to use
> less
> of my system memory to back up video memory - or at least tell the game
> that
> there is less.
>
>