How To Increase Local Memory For My Video Card?

[Christopher]

hi, i want to give my display device (video card) ATI Mobility Radeon 9000IGP/9100IGP more local memory so i am able to play Battle Field 2. i have 64 but i need 128. i have a laptop with xp professional with all updates including drivers for sound/video card. everything is up to date. i just need to know how to boost the memory to 128. i have 702mb free ram, and about 18gb free of harddisk space. some one plz help me.

[FReakMaster]

If the BIOS in your laptop supports allocating 128MB of system RAM to video, then you can do it. If it doesn't, you can not. You need to determine, based on the specs for you laptop, whether it would allow allocating more than 64MB to video. You should be able to determine this by accessing the BIOS settings screen and seeing what your options are for shared video memory.

[Christopher]

sry, im kinda a noob. how do i access BIOS and wut is it? can u walk me through somehow?

[FReakMaster]

Here are two references that should help:

Access/Enter Motherboard BIOS, and
How to get into your computer's BIOS.

You'll need to carefully watch your screen while the computer is starting, as soon as you turn the power on. Look for "Setup" on the screen, and hit the appropriate key at that moment to access the BIOS.

[Christopher]

thanks for the links.

[Christopher]

also can my computer have more than 1 graphics card, (compaq presario r3000 laptop 2003/2004)? my vid. card is not compatible with bf2 and i would want to get another one but leave my old one how it is still. maybe there is a way 2 switch back and forth if i have 2?

[FReakMaster]

No, your computer can not have more than 1 graphics card and, no, you won't be able to swap cards in and out of the laptop. Due to the compact design of laptops, they are made with intergrated graphics rather than removable video cards. If you can't play bf2 with it, you really have no choice but to get a computer that is capable of playing it.