No longer URGENT: Dedicated graphics - how can you tell?

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Just quickly asking this, I'm after some way of finding a particular laptop's ratio of integrated to dedicated graphics memory, and aside from checking the spec sheet (which I don't have) I'm not having much luck.

It's an Acer Aspire 5736Z with an Intel T4500 Processor, 3GB of RAM and an Intel GMA4500M graphics card on Windows 7. I have it in my possession, so I'm able to pop into device manager and such, but I've played around already and have found nada that says definitively how much or little is borrowed from the RAM.

Currys (where it was bought from) say the graphics card has '128mb of dedicated system memory', which frankly I think is a lie as I've owned laptops with similar cards and they've had absolutely none of their own memory to play with - not to mention that it's a low-end £370 laptop. Acer's website is particularly unhelpful and pretends it doesn't exist, so I'm basically after some way of proving that Currys have got it wrong and therefore are entitled to refund the friend of mine that bought it.

If anyone can definitively help me I'll refund them in hugs/premium! :)
 
Click Start, Search for Change Display Settings then click Advanced Settings. You should have a list of Total Available, Dedicated, System and Shared Video Memory.

Hope that helps.
 
TB
Click Start, Search for Change Display Settings then click Advanced Settings. You should have a list of Total Available, Dedicated, System and Shared Video Memory.

Hope that helps.
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AHA! You brilliant man. Hug, premium or indefinite gratitude*?

It's popped up as having 64MB dedicated, just as I suspected. Superb :D

*I believe adding to the last lot from when you Premium'd me
 
I have read from this PDF that it has 64MB decitcated RAM but I'm not that sure if the information is correct since this model has many different versions.

You could try running speccy as I do know that it does display some information about the amount of memory a graphics card uses.

EDIT: I have been beaten to the punch here. All well, I always use Linux to look up all of the information(I always forget the code but you can save the information on a html file. It really saves me time looking up all of the drivers if it's a computer I have to wipe and reinstall).
 
Jondot
Hug, premium or indefinite gratitude*?
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I'm a lifer and I'm not big on hugging* so I guess I'll take the gratitude. Or meh. I'm pretty partial to meh. And for the record, that's an h, not an n.*

*No offense.

:P
 
TB
I'm a lifer and I'm not big on hugging* so I guess I'll take the gratitude. Or meh. I'm pretty partial to meh. And for the record, that's an h, not an n.*

*No offense.

:P
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I just spent 10 minutes wondering what the hell 'nugging' was :lol:

Gratitude it is, then ;)

And thanks too, nick 👍
 

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