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163.74 detects 256mb as 512mb in XP


patrvic

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hey guys, i'm sorry if this has been already posted somewhere with a solution.

I installed the 163.47 vista 32 drivers evry thing was fine.

Last week i formatted to XP sp2 32 and installed the 163.74 (currently on) and 163.23 xp 32 drivers and it detects my card

as 512mb.

in vista it detected 256 dedicted and 1gb total. Here it just says 512mb.

help please.

Specs

Vaio Core 2 duo 2Ghz

2gb ram

8400 gt 256 dedicated

xp 32

thanks.

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Vista and XP allocate additional memory to the video card differently. My 128 MB card is reported as 512 MB in XP, and I think it's 1GB in Vista, but I'm not sure... I'll have to check back at some point.

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