How to Free up video memory on your computer?
November 29th, 2008 | by computermemory |
bryanortunio asked:
i just need to free up some of my computers video memory in order to be able to play one of my computer games that i install. It install’s fine, but its when ever i click to start the game then it goes to the black screen and then back to the desktop. That means there is not enough viedo meomory, i just need to know how to free up some of this.
GALEN
i just need to free up some of my computers video memory in order to be able to play one of my computer games that i install. It install’s fine, but its when ever i click to start the game then it goes to the black screen and then back to the desktop. That means there is not enough viedo meomory, i just need to know how to free up some of this.
GALEN
2 Responses to “How to Free up video memory on your computer?”
By Devin S on Nov 30, 2008 | Reply
sounds to me like you may need a new video card also. You should go to and see if your computer can handle the game. I go there whenever Im in question since my video card is an older 5500fx
By Mickey L on Dec 3, 2008 | Reply
You can change your virtual memory by altering amount of resources for your computer to use for it. Virtual memory uses free space as a resource. So you can change the the amount free space reserved for the Virtual memory.
When you get to the Virtual Memory menu select the Custom Size check box. Then choose the initial size and the max size. Depending on how much free space you have you can choose what that amount of free space you want. I think having 800MB for the initial size and 800 for the max size is good. I wrote the instructions step by step over again for you with the change for custom setting. If you are still confused the link below has a visual step by step instructions.
1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.Under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. In most computers its C:
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set
Hope this helps!