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video ram help

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dhm118

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Sep 23, 2007
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ok so my brother and i got macbooks back in august. i got the 2.16 ghz core2 duo processor with 2 gb ram. im not much of a gamer, but i like to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory from time to time. so when i fired ET up, i was getting like 10 fps...wtf. this is a much faster and more up to date computer than my old windows notebook (1.2 ghz core duo 1.5gb ram -- got ~40-60 fps...et isnt very demanding). is there any way to turn up my video ram?

TIA
 
The GMA950 video processor is not really suited to games. As far as the video RAM goes, the OS will dole it out as needed.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303407

The GMA 950 allocates a base amount of 80 MB for video and boot processes at startup. In a computer configured with 512 MB of SDRAM, this leaves 432 MB of SDRAM available to Mac OS X in a standard system (configured with 512 MB SDRAM).

Mac OS X may make additional main memory available to the graphics processor for texture use beyond the base 80 MB amount mentioned above, depending on the application being used. The most common types of applications that request more system memory to be used as graphics memory are 3D and graphics-intense applications.
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Could try playing it in Windows through Bootcamp. I've seen games FPS increase on the windows side of things...
 
o and i have the 2.16 ghz version...why am i getting this when i want to play sims 2?

simswtf.jpg
 
well i dont have a copy of windows just lying around...and i dont want to pay for the license for windows...i bought a mac.
 
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