Vista : GPU/Grabs system mem. Cool !

[garikfox]

http://members.cox.net/garikfox/gpushared.jpg

 

[ViRGE]

There's nothing new about that. ATI has done something like that for PCIe cards since one of the 5.x Catalyst drivers, and I think TurboCache was around the same timeframe.

 

[akshayt]

did that with a 7900GTX???

anyway, no point doing it, will only make your games worse or keep them as it is.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: akshayt
did that with a 7900GTX???

anyway, no point doing it, will only make your games worse or keep them as it is.

....

Games that use less than 2GB of system RAM on a PC with 2GB of system RAM, but use more than 256/512MB of VRAM could make use of it.... (possibly thinking along the lines of Doom 3 etc here, tho I'm not sure how much system RAM it uses)

 

[Ulfhednar]

Games don't really benefit from 512MB VRAM, so this is a useless feature for now but might be handy in the future. If you have a graphics card with 256MB or more then system memory is more important (especially in games like Battlefield 2 which require about 1.5MB system memory for high textures.)

As for the topic, though; Since when was Turbocache/Hypermemory "cool"? This is basically exactly that.

 

[Peter]

See also: The original idea behind AGP, circa 1998.

 

[postmortemIA]

This loooks like AGP aperture size, cuz i see it on my 6800U AGP.