Video card stoles 1 GB of my RAM!

[coderlan]

I have 4GB of RAM and it shows only 3GB of RAM in Vista Home Prem(64bit)
and in DXdiag I saw 2 GB of ram is being used by the video card but the video card I bought have only 1 GB of RAM...

here is Screenshot:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5231/ram.jpg

Please help me, I need to get back that 1GB stolen by the video card...

 

[nemesisuk]

It's not actually always using that ram. It only uses it when needed.

 

[Ayporos]

It looks like your graphics card driver has 'allocated' 1gb of your system ram for dedicated use by your graphics card.

If you run a lot of games, this is not a bad setup and I suggest not changing it.
If you run a lot of resource-eating applications that require a lot of memory feel free to change it.

!!IMPORTANT NOTICE!!:
only 64bit applications are able to use more than +-2gb of your system ram, same goes for games etc.

If you really dont like it however I suggest looking into your video card driver setup.
there should be an option there somewhere stating it has reallocated system memory for graphics usage.