TheFallenBreaker
Junior Member
Back when I purchased Vista (x64) Ultimate last year, I was quickly greeted by an error when trying to run one of my older PC games. The error told me that I had negative graphics memory, and refused to allow me to run the program. I started to do a little reading on the issue, and then pretty quickly gave up, considering it was just one game, and I had managed to get all of my other games to work just fine. However, now I have 3 games I'm rather fond of not working because of this issue, and after a lot of reading I think I somewhat understand the issue, but have no clue if there is a work-around or any way to address it, and I need some help from anyone who might understand this issue because, I only slightly understand the cause not any solutions.
As far as I've come to understand through a lot of reading, whenever some older programs using DX9 come up against more than 2gigs of combined available graphics memory (Dedicated video memory + Vista's shared system memory that it allocates for graphical use), it can't recognize it, and reports a negative value, and Vista refuses to run the program.
I just wanted to see if anyone could help me out here, or at least point me in the direction of someone who may know more. I would GREATLY appreciate any help, the problem just keeps growing as I find more effected programs and despite exhaustive searching I've come up empty handed.
My system has 4gigs of ram, and around 6gigs of virtual memory, but more importantly my card has 768mb of dedicated memory and windows allocates another 1791mb, bringing the total to 2559mb.
Again, any help is greatly appreciated, or even corrections if someone knows the issue I'm encountering and something is wrong with my understanding of it. Thanks for any responses in advance.
As far as I've come to understand through a lot of reading, whenever some older programs using DX9 come up against more than 2gigs of combined available graphics memory (Dedicated video memory + Vista's shared system memory that it allocates for graphical use), it can't recognize it, and reports a negative value, and Vista refuses to run the program.
I just wanted to see if anyone could help me out here, or at least point me in the direction of someone who may know more. I would GREATLY appreciate any help, the problem just keeps growing as I find more effected programs and despite exhaustive searching I've come up empty handed.
My system has 4gigs of ram, and around 6gigs of virtual memory, but more importantly my card has 768mb of dedicated memory and windows allocates another 1791mb, bringing the total to 2559mb.
Again, any help is greatly appreciated, or even corrections if someone knows the issue I'm encountering and something is wrong with my understanding of it. Thanks for any responses in advance.
